Dominate vs. Dominant

[Guest DickHo]

Dominate is the verb.

Dominant is the adjective.

 

Examples:

I expect a dominant top to top me.

I expect a dominant master to dominate me.

[Traveller]

Now, if you're an aggressive or controlling bottom, does that make you a dominant receiver or just an athletic receptacle? Just wondering.

 

Later.

[Rick Munroe]

>I expect a dominant top to top me.

>I expect a dominant master to dominate me.

 

I think the problem here, pushy bottom, is: you don't expect a dominant top/master to do anything. It's his world, he does what he wants & you as the sub take what you get.

[Guest DCeBOY]

i'm sure you knew this but...

 

the confusion between the verbial form & the adjectival form bothers the SHIT out of me!

[Guest DCeBOY]

umm...

 

verbal.

sorry about the extra I.

[Guest DickHo]

>I think the problem here, pushy bottom, is: you

 

I am a pushy bottom (push, push in the bush) but the problem here is not me but rather the reviewers and posters that don't know their verbs from their adjectives.

 

PS: and you should talk about pushy bottoms!

[Bilbo]

My sympathies

 

I myself have had to get used to "blond" vs. "blonde" mixups and the many ways of spelling masseur, let alone the "masseur" vs. "masseuse" mixups.

 

And I prefer an educated leather boy who knows, basically, what to expect and how to tell when I'm doing it safely, knows his limits, knows enough to let me try to stretch them before he says my Safe Word. And probably most other Masters do, too, or we wouldn't spend so much time training our lads.