I certainly would have known more about what I was going to read or might not have chosen to read it at all. I'm all for discussion, but I don't consider people saying how much they dislike Xanthe's stories discussion.

I have been called an idiot because I didn't see the allegory of feminism at first, though what really occured was I saw it when I read it but had real issues with putting a sub in that mindset. I am highly uncomfortable with saying that a sub is being abused or not given choices. Color me sensitive, but I was uncomfortable with that in the story. Not because I have I dislike dark scenarios in stories because of the potential of others to say 'well, see, that's what I've always thought D/s was all about.' I have come across people who say this all the time, in fact one of my closest friends always tells me she equates D/s as abusive.