Power

[Catherine Driscoll]

> >> Another thing - in B/D relationships, power and its asymmetrical
> >> distribution are a desirable thing.  Would you say that such
> >> relationships are inconsistent with "love" ?
> > 
> > In every relationship power can be asymmetrical and often is, and that 
> > asymmetry is often desirable, inspiring, seductive, pleasurable, fun.
> 
> ...and entrapping, humiliating, despiriting, stifling, boring. The full range
> of human experience, in fact. I like what you are saying, and I think that I
> agree with it, but I start worry when people start talking about power like
> it's just another kind of breakfast. 

I was working off the fact that people assume asymmetrical=bad. I'm not for a 
second espousing asymmetrical=good.


>As for the Foucault's weird crusade against those bad people who 
> think 'truth is antithetical to power' - who thought this? It is such an 
> unusual idea, one of Foucault's very own contributions if you ask me.

Where do you think he said this, precisely? I could make a guess at which 
passages you mean, but I could better talk about them if you were specific.