7. CollarMe? No Thanks

I’m going to come back to my fuckupperies, be sure. But I find that they are hard posts to write, and require much pulling on teeth and heartstrings. So in the meantime, my first (and probably last) thoughts on CollarMe.

Tonight I saw an incredibly weird play about the first feminist queen of Lapland. When I came home, I closed my CollarMe account. Strangely, these things do have something to do with one another. In the play, the queen is called “swashbuckling”. I had forgotten how much I love that word, swashbuckling. I realized there was a part of me that used to ache to inhabit such a word, and that the ache is still there.

And when I came home and signed online, looking at the messages in my inbox and the words coming up on the screen, I also realized that there is no place for swashbuckling women on CollarMe. There is some potential there, but most of it is buried and I don’t care enough to go digging. There is too much shit in the way.

When I clicked the button to close my account, this is the message that appeared, letter for letter:

http://collarme.com
Perminantly close your account?

Really, that about sums it up. And I would laugh, if it wasn’t just so fucking pathetic.

3 Comments

  1. maymay wrote:

    See also: What every big sexuality community web site does wrong. I should really do one of those rants about BDSM personals web sites in particular, but alas, there is so much I could rant about and not nearly enough time in the universe to get close to covering all the fuckuppery that they practice.

    Friday, December 19, 2008 at 10:28 pm | Permalink
  2. Ahh.. the joys, or rather the not joys, of collarme. The place is just a cesspit of people trying to live inside their own little dream world. What could have been a wonderful social networking site has turned into a shop front for so called money-dommes. I say so called because I have always had long held suspicions that the vast majority are actually men hiding behind a dodgy photo stolen off flickr or photobucket.

    Friday, December 19, 2008 at 10:39 pm | Permalink
  3. sera wrote:

    I know I shouldn’t laugh, since Everything About Femdom Is Broken, but this was too funny.

    CollarMe creeps me out, but swashbuckling is cool. Good decision.

    Saturday, December 20, 2008 at 4:34 am | Permalink

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