As a sub, I view the BDSM world though sub eyes. Maybe I attached that title onto myself too readily, but it seemed, and seems, to fit. If I see myself as sub first and foremost then that means I don't think like a dom. I can't. As least maybe I assume, since I call myself a sub, that I can't think like a dom.
I admit to the prejudice you complain about, Thir. I don't really understand switching. But I don't understand doms either, not the way they understand themselves. Being sub or dom is a bit, to my mind, like being either male or female. You can relate to a certain extent, be complementary to, the opposite, but you can never be the other. Except, witnessing the recent post on 'gender', I realise even gender perceptions are by no means as fixed as is widely supposed.
I would certainly appreciate understanding better what makes switches tick. Maybe they have to speak out, educate the rest of us out of our cosy sub/dom cocoons. Maybe it's all more role play than we give credit for. Maybe we all have 'switchability' lurking inside us .