When a vanilla calls you mentally ill should you be insulted or complemented?

[Arden]

Our new vanilla troll has just called me mentally ill. Should I be insulted or take it as a compliment?

Who gives a rat's ass what she thinks - I've never seen anyone so narrow-minded.

Refusal to accept others at face value, as human beings, is a social disease.

 

[catalina_francisco]

I would take it as a compliment .

F.

 

[MissTaken]

I suppose that it is both.

She intended it as an insult, and you took it as a compliment.

Now, speaking from my lofty position as a megalomaniac with some inferiority issues (which you'll never see me display unless you are a 9-ring person or better), and a non-practicing Libra, I have a tendency to see both sides of most issues.

When they tell me that I'm nuts, I tell them that they don't know the half of it.

*giggles*

I want to be a perfect 10!

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On topic, I do find it funny when those who don't understand us try to throw around potential mental health diagnosis to either insult or excuse our behavior. For some, the only way they can understand BDSM is by chalking it up to being ill.

However, I know many people who do face mental health challenges who are doctors, lawyers, teachers, construction workers, social workers, etc....who probably don't go anywhere near kink, not to mention BDSM.

*shrugs*

I voted "other" as in "Who gives a flying fuck?"

 

[Temptress_1960]

We all have our little kinks, whether it's being tied up, peed on, fucking dogs, whatever.

As long as you aren't harming someone else, as long as you are consenting adults, it's your own business. And nobody has any right to judge you for it.

 

[mbb308]

*giggles*

I want to be a perfect 10!

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On topic, I do find it funny when those who don't understand us try to throw around potential mental health diagnosis to either insult or excuse our behavior. For some, the only way they can understand BDSM is by chalking it up to being ill.

However, I know many people who do face mental health challenges who are doctors, lawyers, teachers, construction workers, social workers, etc....who probably don't go anywhere near kink, not to mention BDSM.

*shrugs*

I voted "other" as in "Who gives a flying fuck?"

That explains my vote for "other" as well. What does it matter?

Only you would want to be a 10.

 

[MissTaken]

That explains my vote for "other" as well. What does it matter?

Only you would want to be a 10.

And I always get what I want!



Yeah, right!

 

[FungiUg]

Re: It is just ignorance

If someone called you a Zebra would you take it as a compliment, an insult, or would you just shake your head?

Yup, and go straight back to eating the grass.

 

[mbb308]

And I always get what I want!



Yeah, right!

That's the story of my life.

*cough cough hack*

Musta been another hairball.

 

[NemoAlia]

Wow -- I voted without reading all the previous responses, just so I wouldn't be influenced away from my own personal bias. And it turns out I'm in the absolute minority!

I would take it as an insult, unless it was from someone who was clearly just so sheltered that she would call washing dishes without gloves gross. I mean, just 'cause someone doesn't agree with me doesn't mean they're ignorant or that they haven't thought about things. It especially doesn't mean that they don't mean exactly what they say when they call me sick.

I would be insulted if someone called me sick. Now maybe this shows my insecurity with my own kink, but I have to say that I generally cherish my insecurities. After all, what would happen if I got cocky and started believing that everything I do or am is exactly the best thing in the entire world? Then I would turn into one of those close-minded people that seem to enjoy hurting other people's feelings with their own self-righteousness.

Of course, I'm aware that the kink community generally shoots back, "We never said it was right for everybody. It's just right for us." However, I'm trying to figure out things beyond my own self. And for that, I have to try to figure out the universal bits and pieces of humanity and the world and stuff. And so, ending a conversation by declaring that "It's right for me!" would only be shooting myself in the foot.

Anyway, you are now all officially victims of my long-winded Sunday morning post. Sorry!

 

[Ebonyfire]

Nemo

insults fly on this forum. I have been called many things in My time, and I always find it amusing.

I did not originate this quote, but the first time I heard it I found it resonated within Me.

"It is not what you call me that matters. It is what I answer to."

That was the basis of this whole thread.

An anonymous porn poster who seems to have a need to make others feel smaller so she can feel larger can hardly make Me feel anything other than gratitude that I am not like her.

Besides, I am having more fun mocking her, than she is having insulting Me or My lifestyle.

Life is good!

 

[Etoile]

For those of you familiar with the DSM-IV, I have been diagnosed with and medicated for 314.01 (Combined Type), 296.33 (Recurrent, Severe Without Psychotic Features), 300.02, and 307.42. So, yeah. I'm pretty mentally screwy.

 

[Ebonyfire]

For those of you familiar with the DSM-IV, I have been diagnosed with and medicated for 314.01 (Combined Type), 296.33 (Recurrent, Severe Without Psychotic Features), 300.02, and 307.42. So, yeah. I'm pretty mentally screwy.

W/we all have our challenges don't we? I bet our resident troll has hers too.

 

[StarCandies]

When you think about it sanity is just another form of conformity. I don’t see why anyone would want to be absolutely sane even if it were possible.