buffiyum
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one has been looking for this very topic on here and is glad to have found it! There is a great difference between Courtesy and Respect. buffy calls Those Who she doesnot know or Who have identify Themselves as 'Dominants', as Sir or Ma'am, unless They have identify Themselves as 'Gorean' (yes one knows Mmany donot like the term but People donot have to like it - it exists as a philosophy anyways). This calling of Dominants as 'Sir' and 'Maam' is not any less than she would do and does, in vanilla so all the more here, in this world of bdsm which means so much more to her than vanilla ever has. To do so it is, in her mind, only 'courtesy', maybe not 'common' but for her, a necessity for peace of mind. As to respect..... that is quite a different kettle of fish. Respect One earns and thus receives or does not earn and so never receives. Perhaps the difficulty becomes how to show this giving or not giving of 'respect', through words online vs in person (which is much easier to convey then). Online the words 'Sir' or 'Maam' is use to convey maybe some form of 'respect' rather than of 'courtesy'. What a pity. It is not that for buffy, only courtesy. one thinks up other more telling methods to show 'respect' online to Ones who have earn that from her. one has notice that sometimes Ones will not wish her to call Them Sir or Ma'am and that, she try to remember for Those Ones, not to do. This, is also courtesy. There are Tthose who apparently get all hot and bother that she call Anyone 'Sir' or 'Maam', and to Tthose buffy would say thank Yyous and she will, until the day she is collared, decide on this sort of thing for herself. Now, for Those who have have shown that They have little if any, respect/regard, for the opinions/welfare of Aanyone save Themselves (and buffy has met a few of those sort).... buffy has not any courtesy, let alone respect, for those. she avoid them like the plague and has nothing to do with them. Now she can say..... with respect (respect being to the Lifestyle Wwe say Wwe part of),..... this is buffy
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