I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
P. G. Wodehouse, Right-Ho, Jeeves!
Yes, it’s more Downton Domination.






I mean to say, there is something about their personality that paralyses the vocal cords and reduces the contents of the brain to cauliflower.
P. G. Wodehouse, Right-Ho, Jeeves!
Yes, it’s more Downton Domination.
More glimpses from a bygone, more civilised age.
You will, of course, have recognised the title from the divine Jane’s Sense and Sensibility and thus have girded your loins (or had someone else firmly gird them for you) for another chapter of this blog’s longest running theme: period femdom. Like period drama you see, only…
What? No, not that kind of ‘period’. Pervert.
Anyway, here come the hot chicks in empire-line dresses, bustles, cropped bodices and suchlike.
Once again, it’s time to look back on the more elegant femdom of times past. One of this blog’s earliest and least-popular series, continued here out of sheer stubbornness and an almost total lack of self-awareness: Jane Austen femdom. With a few anachronistic wobbles of a hundred years or so in either direction from the divine Jane’s own period.
* Yes, I know Jane Austen was pre-Victorian. Do pay attention: as the paragraph at the start noted, the actual time period featured here varies. All posts set before 1910 or so** are labelled as ‘Jane Austen‘ (indeed, many are introduced as featuring ‘Hot chicks in empire-line dresses’ even when the hot chicks featured are in fact attired in the fashion of an entirely different era).
** Posts after 1910 (and before about 1960) being labelled ‘Downton Domination‘. But you knew that, right?
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Fortunately their arguments are usually quite short. She’s very sensitive, poor thing – hates it when there’s disagreement in her marriage. |
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Her husband’s very sensitive too, which is just the way she likes it. |
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Apparently one of his favourite maledom fantasies concerns ‘caning to real tears’. So he’s in for a real treat today because that’s definitely on the agenda. |
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Look at that… she gets to have a mug of rich, steaming coffee… and Raoul’s coming round later, too. |
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Things just haven’t been the same between us since Humpy Hippo moved in. |
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It’s silly to criminalise sexism. Men are better than women at lots of things and it shouldn’t be a crime to say so. Hard labour, for a start: we’re really good at that. |
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10 Green Bottles? |
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Oh no. Don’t tell me I married an escape artist. Again. |
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Scurry scurry scurry. |
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Thank goodness it’s nothing personal. |
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That looks very motivating, doesn’t it? I think just one of those rods would motivate me, so a whole bunch wrapped together like that… I feel motivated just looking at them. |
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I wouldn’t mind, but he’s the priest who married us and that just seems wrong. Still… very nice shoes. |
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And I didn’t even use paracetemol – that’s cheating. |
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Poor thing – thinking about it all afternoon like that. |
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Like steel needles, huh? Oh dear. Many of us know how awful those can feel. |
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And don’t forget the gratitude time. That’s very important. |
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Submissive women… fear them. I mean, it’s not natural, is it? |
Even more hot chicks in empire-line dresses! One of the earliest CtD posts – probably dating from the 18th century itself, truth be told, but re-posted in 2011, dealt with this highly topical theme.
To quote that early post:
Little did I know…. eight years on, same old nonsense.