Submissiveness

A disclaimer of sorts: I do not mind writing (or talking) about controversial subjects not just because I have done so all my life, but because I am now at the stage of my life where employers can no longer harm me by what I have said or done. 

Additionally, I may loose some followers because of what and how I say something or I may gain some for the same reason; but, the worst that can possibly happen is that my profile is shut down and even that is not a big issue because I can simply start over again with a different profile under a different name and no one but me is the wiser. I guess this makes me sound somewhat like a JACKASS I suppose...

So, what about this new movie, 50 Shades of Grey?

According to the Daily Beast, In Mississippi and Arkansas and even Alabama, where sex toys are banned, the desire for 50 Shades of Grey tickets is stronger than anywhere else.

Do you think GO FIGURE is appropriate here? I do...

The Independent reports that Justin Chang from Variety was disappointed by the final half-hour or so, calling it “punishing in more than just a literal sense” for ending on a “less-than-scintillating cliffhanger” that falls clearly in line with “fan-driven franchise fare”.

But with millions already racked up in advance ticket sales, Fifty Shades Darker and Fifty Shades Freed were never going to stay as books and books alone, were they?

Kim Kardashian, meanwhile, absolutely loved it, tweeting “Omg it’s soooooo good!” from a private screening she was enjoying with her girl friends.

But, the amazing issue to me is that Americans are not just fascinated with sex this time but with a taboo topic of BDSM. So, what is BDSM?

It's an acronym- Bondage Discipline Sadism Masochism. 

 

It's a sexual fetish group.

"BDSM is a type of roleplay or lifestyle choice between two or more individuals who use their experiences of pain and power to create sexual tension, pleasure, and release."

For those who practice this fetish, the female is completely and totally submissive to the male in a sexual connotation.

According to Merriam-Webster Online, submission means:

an act of giving a document, proposal, piece of writing, etc., to someone so that it can be considered or approved : an act of submitting something...  something that is submitted
the state of being obedient : the act of accepting the authority or control of someone else

However, according to Christian Apologetics & Research Ministry:

Today, one of the most difficult concepts in God’s Word is biblical submission. The word submission is not limited to wives alone. For example, Christians are to submit themselves to each other (Ephesians 5:21), to government (Romans 13:1), and unto God (James 4:7). This is a frequent concept in the Bible. Self-sacrifice is required in each circumstance. Submission is never glossed over to be seen as easy or always convenient. Instead, it is viewed as service unto God.

The Greek word for submission is hupotasso, “to subordinate…put under…” God exhorts women to voluntarily follow their husband’s leadership (Ephesians 5:22, 1 Peter 3:1). A woman is actively doing this-- choosing to put herself under leadership, choosing to be subordinate in a circumstance or relationship. This is not forced upon her by the recipient.

A wife shows submission unto her husband when she allows him to take leadership in the relationship. His position as leader is biblical (1 Corinthians 11:3). Abraham’s wife, Sarah, is an example of a woman following her husband’s lead (1 Peter 3:6). Sarah has never been confused with being a woman who was a frail doormat. Peter notes that she was not afraid in life. Submission should not be confused with a person being weak.

Women are not commanded to submit to their husband’s because God insures that men will be just or loving. When a woman submits unto her husband, she is actually submitting unto God (Ephesians 5:22).

However, it is commonplace especially among Christians to misinterpret religious doctrines in order to create self-fulfilling prophecies to those who may be unflinching in their thoughts and beliefs.

But, my approach here is somewhat different. If I were to look at the role of a submissive both inside and outside the context of the Holy Bible, I then see the submissive person as being incredibly strong and the one who is in control whenever it is performed in a sexual context.

Remember, the submissive does so voluntarily and in so doing, the dominate male can only derive their power through what the submissive voluntarily agrees to do.

To me, that gives the submissive all the power and what the dominate male thinks he has, is just an illusion; and, more importantly, an illusion that is maintained and controlled by the submissive. And, the more the submissive can tolerate (both physically and mentally) the greater the dominate perceives his powers to be.

This same time of illusion of power is seen in management all the time, when in reality, it is the workforce that really has the power. Without the employees' willingness to let themselves be controlled, management has no power.

What keeps the workforce working?

Money and nothing else for the most part.

If the entire workforce at some fictitious company decided that they did not want to work for this company anymore and walked off... how much power over the employees would management be left with?

Very little, if any actually.

Being a submissive is, in my opinion, the same concept, just different situations.

But, what is really interesting to me is how can ticket sales be this high in a country that perceives itself to be mainly Christian?

Theoretically, if we were as Christian as we claimed to be, a movie like this should have no ticket sales at all or at least very little, but that is not the case, and it is especially not the case in the BIBLE BELT SOUTH which makes it even more astonishing in my mind.

Why would people be attracted to a movie like this in the first place?

I would think that dominates would like it because it somewhat reinforces what they already believe about themselves, and no doubts have practiced in their private lives behind closed doors for many years, and bringing it out in the open, give us a tentative seal of approval.

As for the submissive people in our society, I would tend to think that this movie taps a deep rooted desire that many have been suppressing in their journeys of being submissive. Many Americans are submissive at work, in their marriage, to their children, and in their communities. They are submissive to law enforcement and to all the actions that Government (and Congress) want to take because they have let it go on for years.

They have tolerated this for years because they think that one person can do nothing, but in reality it is because they are submissive and this movie finally validates those feelings.

People around me have always told me to pay attention to what is being done or to what is being said and I have always found that to be horse manure. It is what people are not doing and what they are not saying that is important and is that which we should pay attention to.

This movie vibrates those nerves.