Developing your own style...

There is a fine line between being influenced by other people and blatantly biting their style. I see "McDomina's" popping up right and left stealing text and ideas from those who came before them and it makes me laugh. A McDomina is the term I use to describe simpletons who believe that a shiny outfit, a crop and a snarl is all you need to be a Mistress. They put their ego before education and can usually be found "training slaves" via Myspace. If you do not have the creativity to come up with your own verbiage and kinky rituals, what the hell makes you think you should be doing this professionally? Try data entry, since you obviously enjoy copying text. This is a job that requires constant creativity and tact, neither of which is demonstrated in a badly executed website with stolen words. Do these people not realize clients are going to notice when you take text from someone's site who has been around far longer than you? It is just silly.

Spanks and Veronica recently changed most of the text on their sites after a neophyte was so bold as to actually take text word for word in the gift and contact sections. I change my site around frequently to keep the ankle biters at bay. (I find that the best solution is constant evolution. It is hard to take on someone else's style when you are busy trying to catch up.) When you spend time educating people it is natural that they would develop similar ideas and it is natural that a fledgling Domina would look to other more established Mistress' sites for ideas. We all take things from our life and use them to develop our style and preferences. What I find pathetic is when someone takes another woman's rituals and desires on in a lie, in order to benefit financially. That woman muddies up the title of Professional Dominatrix by being nothing more than a bitchy hot topic clone with a couple of keys. You know who you are.

I was cruising around earlier today and found someone had ripped off the design of the logo I had done. It pissed me off to no end that some intellectually bankrupt jackass would take the look and feel of something that took me weeks to hash out for his own. I hope I do not find out that the artist helped them in that task, that would be very poor form. Oh sure, they changed enough to make it a different drawing but the colors,character and layout are the same. For shame! When that incurable case of anal itch hits you, know that I sent my incubus to visit.

I was going to take this opportunity to give some advise on developing your own style as a top. I decided it would be better to let the professional plagiarists of the world know that even if no one calls you on your bullshit, we notice.