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My reason for creating this category out of whole cloth is in recognition of
the fact that many lifestyle Dominants just can’t be neatly pigeon-holed into
any of the other categories.  They are, quite simply, atypical or
unique . 
    The Ineffable Dom is typically a Dominant who has
been in the D/s lifestyle for several years or longer and has, mostly through
trial and error, learned what does and doesn’t appeal to him and what works
best in his D/s relationships.  Over this span of time, he has consciously
explored and borrowed traits and characteristics from other more traditional
Dominant categories.  Additionally, the synergy created with each new
partner brings new facets to the Ineffable Dom’s understanding and
interests.  The Ineffable Dom steals unashamedly from any D/s lifestyle
tradition that strikes his fancy, taking what he considers the best bits and
pieces of each and tossing them all into a hodge-podge D/s stew that,
surprisingly, can turn out to be quite delicious.  Never discount
or underestimate a Dominant simply because he cannot adequately describe in 25
words or less what kind of Dominant he is.  He may just be an Ineffable
Dom .
    The Tin Pot Dom
    The Tin Pot Dom is no more a Dominant than
the person who wears a dollar store eye patch on Talk Like a Pirate Day (September 19 th , by the way) is really a pirate.   Tin
Pot Doms generally fall into two categories. 
    The first is the role player.   This Tin
Pot Dom doesn’t consider what he does as a deception; he considers it role
play .  As far as he is concerned, D/s isn’t a lifestyle; it’s entertainment.   He sees what he does - role playing the part
of a Dominant - as a perfectly natural and appropriate behavior, mainly because
he believes he is interacting with people who are doing precisely the same
thing .  It hasn’t quite dawned on him that those people really may
be Dominants and submissives, and not just acting out roles.  The
role player Tin Pot Dom believes that everyone is simply making it up as
they go along, so he feels pretty confident doing so himself .  The
ridiculous notion of doing any homework on how real Dominants might conduct themselvesmakes about as much sense to him as trying to
learn how real vampires behave. 
    Eventually, the role player Tin Pot Dom realizes his
mistake but, by then, it’s usually too late to recover from it
gracefully.  The great majority of them will simply drop the role
completely, quickly assume another identity, and then start doing a
little homework on the lifestyle.  Some may even go so far as to explore
how they might fit into the lifestyle in reality , rather than through
role play.  If they are smart and/or lucky, they will find mentors or
friends who will help them navigate the tricky path from role play to reality . 
    You probably know more of these folks than you
think.  They’re usually the people who tell you, “I’m a submissive (or
switch), but I used to be a Dom.”   Translation:  “I used to role
play being a Dominant until one day, I realized that there really were such things, and that I wasn’t one.”   
    Just because someone discovers the D/s
lifestyle through role play doesn’t necessarily mean they can’t
successfully adopt it as a way of life and find happiness in a D/s
relationship.  All who arrive at this lifestyle come by different paths, and
no path is intrinsically better than another.  The important thing is that
they arrive safe and sound.  Such is not always the case with the next type of Tin Pot Dominant.
    The second category of Tin Pot Dom is the self-delusional variety.  This poor bastard really believes in his innate
superiority and unrecognized demi-godhood,despite the overwhelming body
of evidence to the contrary.  He develops his strategies and techniques,
not out of any sense of deception, but from a purely pragmatic sense of what
has worked for him in the past.   He simply plays the odds.  He knows that if he