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I noticed that if an outright sadist is portrayed positively (or even neutrally comically) the character is almost always a woman. If masochism is portrayed in any non-negative light (i.e, as other than non-healthy and the product of abuse), it's probably a man. For very obvious reasons regarding RL perceptions and statistics about abuse and violent behavior.

Would that go into this trope or would it be its own thing?

Edited by thisissostupid

Previous Trope Repair Shop thread: Needs Help, started by abloke on Mar 16th 2013 at 8:12:02 PM

"For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for Nature cannot be fooled." - Richard Feynman

Hi there, i'm a practicing BDS Mer, but i thought this at least should be listed as a RL example of this trope (sadly): the John Edward Robinson case. It's a cautionary tale and why you should set up safe calls.

Does the quote fit? If it's a girl who's "12 years old and unhappily telepathic", it's pretty understandable that she'd find images of tied-up women on her dad's mind disgusting. Doesn't mean the author does, or that the reader's (necessarily) supposed to.

This was in quote format — and we have a page quote already. Given it's apparently a made-up exchange I didn't move to the quote tab. I suspect the sentiments are captured by the main text.

Do relationships that are clearly abusive fit here? I thought BDSM was supposed to NOT be about that stuff.

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I deleted the 'and actually bondage is good IRL, really! Love us!' whining at the end of the article that turns it into an opinion piece, as if people who practice it are poor, discriminated minorities (and all psychologists and researchers who say anything against bondage are full of crap,) but it was put back there. The insecurity amuses me. I didn't put anything anti-bondage in there - simply deleted the irrelevant bit whining to be nice to fetishists. Someone should go around all the other fetish pages adding a "and these people are really nice and normal, really! ;_;" disclaimer. Oh, why do people act like scat is gross, that's so disrespectful!