Hi all! Any recommendations for a podcast focusing on male submission?
While my partner (29M) and I (29F) have played with these themes very casually for a number of years now (spanking, psychological domination, light age-play), talking about them explicitly has always been a struggle. I really want to move forward into heavier themes but am keenly aware I currently lack the facilities to even host a discussion on the topic.
It's my hope that listening to a few episodes together where others really own their interests will help both with normalizing the topic and with providing the necessary fodder for real conversations in that direction.
I feel like most of the women who call themselves Christians highly disagree on the biblical roles on a marriage. It's like they want the husband to be the provider, protector and a chivarly but don't want their counterpart and still be independent empowered. Also they seek 'legal insurance' in case 'things go wrong', basically denying the spiritual insolvency aspect of marriage.
I'm struggling with this as they seem, in different doses, intoxicated with feminism. This makes marriage not viable for men. How do you guys deal with this?
Other sexually submissive men, how do you deal with the tendency of society, still (at least unconsciously) expecting the man to be the dominant part in sexual practice? Is your devotion as a man causing self criticism? If so, how do you deal with it?
TL;DR: BBMS makes me sad and/or not sure how to feel. Curious about everyone else's takes on this episode?
So there are episodes of community I tend to skip during rewatches as I remember concepts I don't like about them, and BBMS is one of those, primarily because I don't like conflict and the Abed/Hickey thing is sad.
But I figured I should go out of my comfort zone in case I was missing something good so I rewatched it this time and wanted to see what you all thought.
Overall it's certainly one of the more morose episodes. I haven't seen any interviews etc about it so not sure if there is much going on behind the scenes, but it definitely hits more serious and less frenetic than other episodes. That being said, the background of cast changes and the general pace of the later seasons [i]generally[/i] going slightly more serious is important backdrop.
Britta///Jeff/Duncan:
Britta interacting with her old anarchist buddies feels narratively a little off to me - they're super nice to begin with, which makes their sudden u-turn to mocking her over the space of 2-3 lines of dialogue strange to me. I wonder though if I'm missing a key idea though, that her buddies are not only the ones who have sold out, but that their fakeness extends to respecting initial formalities of politeness while actually feeling only disdain for Britta. Obviously there's only so much character development you can fit into 20 minutes but it did feel slightly rushed to me.
The backdrop of Jeff and Duncan vying for her also seemed a little dark. For the record I'm not saying darker/more serious is bad, but just exploring what makes this a less fun episode for me. They have some great lines and Duncan's skeeviness is pretty funny. I know most characters in Community tend to have a certain view of something for 90% of the episode before a character then says something to them which makes them reflect and reassess, though had Duncan not had the realisation re friendship I hold that this episode would have rapidly descended in to Darkest Timeline territory with a depressed self-destructive Britta, skeevy Duncan and a season 1-esque shallow Jeff falling into old bad habits.
That being said, I love that these characters all end on a reasonably positive note when the dust settles.
Chang:
Chang has perhaps one of the wildest character arcs over the seasons. Clearly S4 caused a lot of this but his experiences in this episode really start a descent for me re his mental health and a
... keep reading on reddit ➡I am just curious because i secretly desire to have my wife tell me what to do and use me sexually but when I've talked to her about it she says it makes her uncomfortable. I guess I'm kind of a "Switch" because I like both, in our relationship I have to always initiate and she never does, and I have to take the lead... because she won't. So I am a dom most of the time. Even with our normal lives, I work 50 hours a week, I get the groceries, I take care of the bills, i drive everywhere even in her car (she hates driving), though she has been helping with the chores more often. I digress, reguardless I am just curious what people think... Is it okay for me to want to be submissive at least every now and then?
It seems as though in some communities, particularly online, men being submissive is the norm. Subreddits such as RoleReversal and GentleFemdom are occupied by thousands of people, most of them being men who claim to be submissive both sexually and just in terms of personality.
That’s repulsive. On a deep, natural level. The idea of men being lifted by their partners and kissed and cuddled, or being penetrated by a woman, is extremely off-putting. I’ve known men in real life who were into this sort of thing, and I immediately lost all of my attraction to them.
I know this is just my opinion, but there’s so much pressure these days for women to accept that “men can be submissive!” The subreddits mentioned above often feature women chiming in to say how dominant they are and how much they wish they had a skinny short man to toss around and give headpats to.
No feminization + insults about the body since I know he doesn't like those.
No alpha men (as much as ik u guys love them) just an innocent boy with really nice reactions to things (blushes easily etc..) and a dominant girl who wants to give him the world
Too much to ask for? Maybe ;)
Some straight romance where the female protagonist's romantic interest is submissive, not sexually speaking, or something like that. It can be femboy, or just a very sweet boy. Difficult to explain in English. I read a book like this once, and I never found anything like it again.
