{"id":3516,"date":"2009-04-29T01:34:41","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:34:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/2009\/04\/29\/dominant-or-master\/"},"modified":"2009-04-29T01:34:41","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T05:34:41","slug":"dominant-or-master","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2009\/04\/29\/dominant-or-master\/","title":{"rendered":"Dominant or Master?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yet another post from a FetLife thread<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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\u201cI was tempted to let this go\u2026 but I\u2019ll jump in \ud83d\ude42 First, my thoughts on the OP question.<\/p>\n

As a practical matter – what is the real difference between a Master and a Dominant? In short \u2013 if someone is called a Master and someone else is called a Dominant, what do these terms tell me about them?<\/p>\n

_Not a damn thing_. The terms are so subjective, so misused and so badly defined that they are meaningless as a way to convey information outside of someone intimately familiar with that person.<\/p>\n

Let\u2019s turn it around then\u2026 when do I consider someone a Master as opposed to a Dominant? _Never_<\/p>\n

I know a bunch of dominants who I consider to have mastered specific skills, or specific people. I may refer to such a person as \u201cHe is a master at Mindfucking people\u201d or \u201che is ____\u2019s Master\u201d. but they are still dominant, they are still a dominant. <\/p>\n

Of all the ways people acquire the term \u201cMaster\u201d the one I find _least_ impressive personally is the popular acclamation of some group of people I have no reason to respect. That this guy (or gal) has managed to play the politics game well enough to be awarded \u201cGrand Master of the Western Marches\u201d or whatever carries no weight with me.<\/p>\n

To me this is ultimately the same standard I apply in the martial arts. When I see someone wearing a black belt I have no reason to believe it says anything about them unless I know where it came from \u2013 and then I respect it only as much as I respect the source.\u201d – Soulhuntre<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

So there \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yet another post from a FetLife thread. \u201cI was tempted to let this go\u2026 but I\u2019ll jump in \ud83d\ude42 First, my thoughts on the OP question. As a practical matter – what is the real difference between a Master and a Dominant? In short \u2013 if someone is called a Master and someone else is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[286],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3516"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3516\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3516"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3516"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3516"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}