Well often one person's myths are someone else's reality.

For example, I don't feel like I consent each and every time he gives me an order on a case by case basis, whether or not that is someone else's Utter Truth For Everyone. That was true at one point but now I don't think I could thrive in my relationship, as it stands, without knowing that whatever he says is a given in my life, where he shapes my reality, and I can't just say "hey can I have that consent back?" Whether he or anyone else really believes that is pretty iffy lol but it's how he handles me and how I "handle" him. Many people live with super consensual, case by case consensuality in their lives but that doesn't disprove the "myth." Man usually I wouldn't care to enter in this discussion because it's SO personal and individualized that I never glean anything from it besides terminology for my life (like "ohhh, so they call it Consensual Non Consent, hmm ok now I can use that phrase when trying to communicate with someone at another time where the conversation will still be useless" lol). But anyway I just wanted to clarify what I meant by my first sentence.

In terms of discussion and responding to the original post, I'd say I disagree with most things stated under Myth #1 (about consenting on a case by case basis as I said, though I don't disagree with that as a whole just saying that if we're talking in absolutes and general refutations, some slaves live any kind of crazy ways. I also don't agree with slavery being some kind of Guild Master or 'artist specialist' after you have been on the path of Submissive Journeyman for a while. I don't believe someone "evolves" into a slave from submissive in some kind of specialization or self-surrender journey. I'd say someone evolves into a slave to their Master/Owner/Person once they've been with that someone for long enough to trust them with their life and surrender it to them, sure, but not with any kind of "path" talk, just not my personality to talk or think in those terms. But then again I haven't been "initiated" nor have I ever sought training from anyone besides the Man who shapes my reality. For me, training or being taught in "this is how we do it" would be a waste of time, because for us there is nothing important about a "we" as in slavey community with accepted norms/traditions or ye olde guild of slavecraft. There's just a Man and his girl, making googly eyes at one another and absolutely knowing our places, which is what I call "slavery" but I'm sure other people wouldn't lol)

I now apologize for the long parenthetical.

Anyway Myth #2 I can back you up on, why shouldn't a slave be able to top and learn the craft of domination really well? It's not for me but definitely a sensible thing. I'd propose "Myth #3: Slaves are doormats who can't speak for themselves" but well, I'm pretty much a doormat in my relationship and I'm sure there's some slave out there who we'll never hear from because he/she cannot in fact speak for him/herself. Which was the point of my first sentence.