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An odd thought...

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jwhouk:
She's a Domme. She's got "conditioning" (aka "training") down pat.

Blackjoker:

--- Quote from: jwhouk on 07 Jan 2011, 16:16 ---She's a Domme. She's got "conditioning" (aka "training") down pat.


--- End quote ---

You don't do that to your own flesh and blood...part of me is just hoping that this is all a nightmare Marten is having during his nap.

Carl-E:
Actually, a large number of people do  do exactly that with  their own flesh and blood.  Some intentionally, some un.  More used to do it in the past than do now, of course - the baby boomers ("your parents" to most of you forumites) promised themselves they'd never do such things, and worked hard at having better "relationships" with their kids than their parents did with them.  But before then, the social norm was absolute respect and obedience to your parents. 

Not that everyone adhered to that, of course.  In fact, most people rebelled, but left home to do it.  After all, we're not too far removed from the Victorians once you go back past the depression! 

I used to watch my father (born in '33) around his parents (both born in 1898), and it was a different world... and hs grandfather, my namesake, was reportedly a real  tyrant!

pwhodges:
To illustrate how severe parental attitudes could be barely a century ago, my first wife's great grandfather had a daughter who had a boy (her father) and a girl (her aunt).  The daughter's husband was a soldier and was killed during the First World War.  When the daughter, now left destitute, asked her father for help, he decreed that she could return home as a kitchen maid, bringing only the boy with her.  The girl (my wife's aunt) was sent to be brought up by a pair of (her) maiden aunts (and ended up pretty barking mad, actually).

We had a picture of this man sitting in a high-backed chair with a pillbox hat with a tassle hanging to one side.

leahneedsanap:
As Marten would say: Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaang.

I think to some extent Marten gets used as the universs's punching bag--especially this week--but it is also a lot easier, when presented with this kind of question, to remember times when it hasn't worked out than when it has.  In hindsight, a risk that worked out feels like a lot less of a risk.  Actually, there's actually a huge set of decision theory that addresses exactly that phenomenon and how it effects future risktaking.

But yeah, I think we are still supposed to see Marten as a character who can't quite get all the way on his feet--even when things are good his life is kind of in stasis instead of moving forward, and even when it's like that you get the urge to say, "It's quiet. Too quiet."

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