Monday, February 05, 2007

It was just a joke

I want to tattoo that phrase on my forehead. Since broaching the subject of the label, "vanilla," I've been accused of attacking people's sexual lifestyles, being racist, petty (I'm not above that one), and a reactionary.

I swear I was just goofing on the term. Why do people into BDSM have to have a term for people who aren't anyway? But by asking that, I've also been accused of protesting too much because they struck a nerve.

It was just a joke.

I just had finished a post about whale vomit. Did that make me anti-mammal? Anti-perfume? Anti-anything?

It was just a joke.

You would think that if you were involved in a lifestyle where you like to either spank or be spanked that you wouldn't be so freakin' sensitive if someone smacked you verbally, but in a playful manner.

You see, if I had just written it in my own blog, no one would have blinked. But I wrote it in an "open" forum. That was like putting on sardine boxers and diving into a tank full of piranhas. Even now a few of them are still muttering about it on their own blogs. They all seemed to have left Freedom's Place for awhile. I think the rational ones may have thought about it and wondered whether they'll get gang commented if they post something that could be misconstrued.

Did I mention it was just a joke?