Quote Originally Posted by Pandora's Box
Granted our general culture seems to value the dominant traits more, but that doesn't necessarily mean it's easier.
Society likes sheep. Society likes the submissive personality. Society likes the people that can be told what to do, where to shop and what to buy.

The dominant personality goes against society. The dominant personality shops where it wants, does what it wants and enjoys freedom from "the rules."

Now before everyone gets all over me for implying that submissives may be sheep and that dominants go against the grain, allow me to point out that I am refering to society and personality, not the actual dominant and submissive archetypes belayed in BDSM relationships, etc.

In a sense more specific to the other quesions asked in the above post, there are several threads in these forums, both by dominants and submissive, expressing how they deal or don't deal so well with the world and their role in it. Everything has been expressed here already, ranging from how abuse my be a factor in peoples' submissive personalities to how a person can be very dominant at the workplace, but completely submissive at home to how hard accepting the responsibilities of being dominant can be.

Essentially, how people feel about being dominant or submissive, how they deal with the reasons behind their dominance or submission and how they feel society reflects upon their choices and roles is as individual as the people that wonder about these things and ask these questions. In other words, as someone very close to me once said in a thread long ago: "Ask a hundred people, and you'll get a hundred different answers."