Safewords and Safesigns

[Psynymph]

so what is everyone's stance on the whole..."He's your Master, He has the right to ignore you safeword" thing?

i've many a Dom say that is you are a complete slave, as in your Master has total control over you, that includes the usage of a safeword. and whereas you can still by all means shout out your safeword, your Master would have the right to ignore it if He felt it was ok to do so.

now i kinda understand the mentality behind this....but how does everyone else feel about this?

btw...my safeword is blue clues....because i figured if i was using my safeword, i was going to need something to make me laugh.....and how can you not smile at a bouncy blue dog?

[vistana]

so what is everyone's stance on the whole..."He's your Master, He has the right to ignore you safeword" thing?

I think that's bogus.
You can play without a safeword, go ahead, if you're comfortable with it. I don't have one at the moment and that's just fine for me right now. But if you have a safeword then the safe word is an absolute. otherwise what's the point?
If the Dom wants to play like this, then have graduated safe words, something that means 'I don't want this anymore' but isn't an absolute 'I can't take this anymore'.

I once had my safeword (gesture, actually) go unnoticed and that was a very rough experience. Having it willfully ignored would fuck with me badly. and not in a good way.

Of course, if you choose to have a situation where your safeword can be ignored, go for it, just please be careful! And I'd have to wonder why you'd choose to have one at all. If it's Master's final call no matter what, then why not just stick with your genuine 'no's and 'please don't's?