A handcuffed and blindfolded man lays on a bed as a woman leans over and kisses his body.
Our species is fantastically diverse, so collectively we embody myriad dichotomies: tall and short, women and men, dark-skinned and light-skinned, hairless and hairy, and dominant and submissive, are just a few. Human diversity is so vast, in fact, that it’s impossible to infer any given person’s makeup in one sphere (say, D/s) from their makeup in another (say, gender) with 100% accuracy.
Nevertheless, many people often attempt to do just that and end up acting in extremely discriminatory ways, such as the example of Rob, when he appeared as a guest in Episode 2 of the This Week In Kink podcast (a podcast produced by, surprisingly, the same people who run FetLife.com), with this astonishingly sexist remark:
“I firmly and strongly believe that it is a woman’s role to be submissive to a man. I believe that submission in men is taught at conception because as soon as women realize that they’re pregnant, they start planning that child’s fucking future and quite often that the mother is definitely the beginning of the emasculation. That said, I think that women in the past couple of hundred years have gotten entirely too high on their own power and eventually need to be slapped in the fucking head and put in their place.”
(Skip to 34 minutes and 32 seconds for the quote.)
In fact, the entire episode was marked by shocking sexism and unimaginable gender insensitivity the likes of which I haven’t been exposed to in some time. Although it’s always incredibly disheartening to see people with whom I share some similarities act disparagingly, I can’t say it’s a surprise. It’s not a surprise because of the very diversity I spoke of earlier.
Then again, maybe all these people need is to be slapped in the fucking head and put in their place. Wait…what?
Followup (September 3, 2009): There seems to be some confusion about who this sexist remark is quoted from. To be clear, it was spoken by a guest of the This Week In Kink podcast, not by either of the hosts. One of the hosts, John Baku, argued with the guest about it. Please, if you’re going to be angry about this sentiment, as I am, be angry at the correct person. Rob, the guest who said the sexist remark I quote above, can be found at his own podcast, The Oh Team.
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