I'm afraid you're going to find all the responses inappropriate, because the people talking about Helen's story are not talking about D/s.
Hmm, I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with this part of what you said, although not necessarily the rest (I see it as an allegory/parable, too). A number of comments have been about how this would be how a real BDSM universe would probably work, seeing as human beings tend to have to find someone to oppress\blame\denigrate. Which is unfortunately true. So as far as that goes, people *are* talking about aspects of BDSM like D/s. Of course, whether or not this is how a real BDSM universe would work out is speculative since maybe we'd all evolve differently if we'd been brought up in that kind of universe. ("A spanked society is a polite society", to paraphrase Lazarus Long?)
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Date: 2006-11-17 08:05 pm (UTC)Hmm, I'm afraid I'd have to disagree with this part of what you said, although not necessarily the rest (I see it as an allegory/parable, too). A number of comments have been about how this would be how a real BDSM universe would probably work, seeing as human beings tend to have to find someone to oppress\blame\denigrate. Which is unfortunately true. So as far as that goes, people *are* talking about aspects of BDSM like D/s. Of course, whether or not this is how a real BDSM universe would work out is speculative since maybe we'd all evolve differently if we'd been brought up in that kind of universe. ("A spanked society is a polite society", to paraphrase Lazarus Long?)