These are the voyages of the Rant blog "Silence". Its five year mission, to explore strange new words - to seek out new wit and new cynicisms. To trenchantly go where no man - no one, has gone before...
A knee across the neck will not (except for very rare circumstances, or circumstances involving deliberate impact, not simple pressure) cause death. The death in Minneapolis was NOT caused by a knee on the neck. It was caused by positional asphyxiation. They are two different things. They are two very technically different things, and the differences are fairly technical and specific. But they are also fairly simple - and extremely important. Because you can say you "accidentally" put a knee on the "wrong part" of the back, and it slipped onto the neck. You can NOT say that you left a man, face down, chest muscles seized due to skeletal-muscular constriction/positioning, for seven and a half minutes..."accidentally". One, a knee on the neck, can be claimed to be bad training, or an accident. The other, positional asphyxiation, is murder. Plain. Simple. Murder. When you handcuff the hands behi...
The best way I’ve heard submission described was at M/s conference in 08. Submission is not following your Master. It is preceding him, clearing the path, and reporting back to him on any pitfalls or problems you see ahead. It is trusting him, to guide and navigate, to keep you safe. The most common way I’ve heard Dominance described uses words that I wouldn’t use to describe a dog. Especially today – there are a LOT of anti-Dominant posts, and a lot of “Submissives Deserve XYZ” posts. But one thing I’ve almost never heard…what do Dominants deserve? Where is our "10" list? 1. Know your Responsibilities. Dominants have responsibilities. We hear a LOT about that in our community. We have the responsibility to be forgiving and understanding. We have the responsibility to be strong and independent. We have the responsibility to be wise and patient, and to be controlled and in control of ourselves and our partners. We have to...
We have a word --- Pretendian. (Okay, mostly we just roll our eyes, and the words we use aren't in your language, or when they are -- they're in southern accents, or First Nations accents, and they're pretty rude, vulgar, irritated, and tired.) But let's look at that other word. Pretendian. Someone who pretends that they're an Indian. Why would they do this? I honestly have no fucking clue, in modern America. This is because...shock and horror...I actually am one. But in the last few decades it has become trendy, and lately even fashionable, to claim native ancestry. To the point where there are those who are now inventing their own Native tribes. (Hey kids, it's all the rage! Invent your own native tribe by stringing together some words, incredibly-offensive-John-Wayne-movie-style! Or claim your ancestors were on our land before we were, and that makes you the "real" natives!) Yo...
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