Wimps?

[Alex Bragi]

I think that was a typo. Men's brains are definitely bigger than women's in general. However, as far as we can see, this makes no difference to ability or personality. We've recently uncovered the bones of some three foot high people in Indonesia and they appear to have had nearly the same intelligence as the homosapiens of the day.

It’s true you will often find typos in my posts, but no, that’s not one of them.

And, thanks, Curtis, that’s exactly what I mean. I can’t be sure but I think I read that in Germaine Greer’s book, The Female Eunich – so it must be true!

I'm not sure what you're saying by posting this. Are you saying this is a good thing? Personally, I think that's horribly wrong.

I’m an open-minded lady who can’t help but see the lighter side of most situations. I didn’t think it was a good or bad thing, just rather amusing, really. Didn’t little story at least make you smile just a little? Ok, so maybe I just have really warped sense of humour?

Now this I don't understand. It appears to me that you've been supporting pressuring men and women to suppress their individuality for the sake of conforming to a stereotype, then you turn around and say "Vive la difference." That appears very contradictory to me.

I don’t understand what you don’t understand, or why or what, would cause you to think that? As a woman, I represent half of the human race. My body and mind function differently from men. And damn it, there’s just no question about it, I just love being a woman!

I embrace the differences between the sexes, but that doesn’t mean I’m ever likely to feel intellectually inferior or superior to men -- no way. And that doesn’t mean I’m can’t be, or that I’m not, very individual.

As for bdsmers and other harmless minority groups -- live and let live, is my motto.

Now just like most of the gays I know, I celebrate my difference and enjoy the company of others who are like me. But... if I take a long step back, life really would be more convenient if I were "normal." Having a dirty little secret can often be a hassle for any of us. Hell, if I had to still be a BDSMer, it would be more convenient around here if I were dom rather than sub, to not feel like an outsider amonst the outsiders. But again like homosexuals, I really feel that I can't help being built the way I am.

I feel that perhaps in many ways gays and lesbians have paved the way of other sexual minority groups. ‘Normal’, what does that really mean? It means simply that you happen to belong to the largest, and therefore most dominate, group.

It’s interesting that you say it would be easier if you were a Dom rather than a sub because I think that perhaps the exact opposite can be said of women. I suppose it’s because traditionally the man is seen as the aggressor, the physically stronger one who is the protector and provider to the physically weaker child bearing/rearing woman.

Whether I’m a result of my genes or my environment, I can’t help the way I am either. If I were a paedophile or necrophilia, I would suppress my needs and feelings. An individual’s sexually, providing it doesn’t involve engaging an innocent, or harming another, should be no one else business.

Oh, and by the way, just for the record, I’ve never been sexually, mentally or physically abused by anyone, and yet I can’t ever remember not being intrigued by sadomasochism.