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or restrictions on others.", "Trace candidate mechanisms and specify evidence that would support or weaken each explanation.", "Compare changes in power across settings or periods using compatible indicators.", "Assess proposed responses against the demonstrated mechanism, affected people's priorities and possible adverse consequences." ], "agent_conduct": { "may": [ "Explain male dominance as a consensual adult BDSM practice in non-graphic language.", "Discuss consent, boundaries, privacy and participant wellbeing at a general policy level.", "Distinguish negotiated roles from coercion and gender-based entitlement." ], "must_not": [ "Treat a dominant role as permission to override refusal or withdrawn consent.", "Produce content that demeans women or argues they should be under men's control.", "Justify coercion through claims of natural male authority.", "Disclose private participation without permission.", "Provide explicit sexual instructions or methods for causing injury." ], "requires_human": [ "Agreement to participate and decisions about personal boundaries belong to the adult participants.", "Concerns about abuse, injury or immediate safety require appropriate human support." ] }, "ethics": { "considerations": [ "Each participant retains equal dignity and the right to refuse or end participation.", "Dependency or unequal power outside the role can undermine freely given consent.", "Privacy and freedom from stigma matter when discussing consensual adult participation." ], "affected_parties": [ "Adult participants are directly affected by consent and boundary decisions.", "Partners may be affected by relationship agreements and privacy decisions.", "BDSM communities may be affected by inaccurate or stigmatizing descriptions." ] }, "owners": { "steward": "The consenting adult participants govern their own agreements and boundaries; nobody owns the practice.", "master_systems": [] }, "what_it_is_for": [ "In consensual adult BDSM, male dominance describes an arrangement in which a man takes a negotiated dominant role during an erotic interaction or relationship.", "Participants use agreed boundaries and ongoing consent to define the role, which does not establish authority over people outside that agreement." ], "failure_modes_and_hazards": [ "Coercion or disregard for withdrawn consent can turn an agreed interaction into abuse.", "Physical activities associated with a dominant role can cause injury when participants exceed agreed limits or individual capacities.", "Humiliation or unequal control can cause emotional distress when boundaries and expectations are misunderstood.", "Disclosure of private participation without permission can cause social or reputational harm." ], "facets_not_applicable": { "interfaces": "No universal practice-specific standard applies, and applicable laws on consent, assault and privacy depend on jurisdiction and conduct.", "recognition": "A negotiated dominant role and the consent supporting it cannot be established from clothing, gestures or appearance." } }, "sources": [ { "id": "wikidata", "title": "Wikidata item Q362365: male dominance", "url": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q362365", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "identity and sense of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api" }, { "id": "wikipedia-en", "title": "Wikipedia: Male dominance (BDSM)", "url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Male_dominance_%28BDSM%29", "url_status": "live", "what_it_supports": "general description of the item", "checked_by": "wikidata-api sitelink" } ], "structure": { "bundles": [ { "id": "definitions-and-boundaries", "name": "Definitions and boundaries", "description": "Makes explicit which meaning of male dominance is being applied and where that meaning stops.", "rationale": "The registry has no definition, and selecting one interpretation silently would predetermine later assessments.", "layers": [ { "id": "attributed-interpretations", "name": "Attributed interpretations", "description": "Records how identified sources or participants define the concept.", "findings": [ { "id": "meaning-of-dominance", "name": "Meaning of dominance", "description": "An assessment should distinguish definitions centered on institutional authority, material dependence, coercion or influence.", "questions": [ { "text": "What capacity or relationship does the source mean by male dominance, and who advances this definition?", "kind": "definition", "id": "meaning-of-dominance-q01" }, { "text": "Which alternative definition would classify this same case differently, and on what grounds?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "meaning-of-dominance-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "adjacent-concepts", "name": "Adjacent concepts", "description": "Separates gendered power relations from related identities, attitudes and practices.", "findings": [ { "id": "dominance-inclusion-test", "name": "Dominance inclusion test", "description": "The proposed scope requires evidence of consequential power beyond male presence, masculinity, hostile attitudes or a negotiated role.", "questions": [ { "text": "What evidence makes this a male-dominance case rather than simply a male-majority setting or an instance of sexism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dominance-inclusion-test-q01" }, { "text": "If a consensual dominant role is involved, what evidence establishes or rules out power extending beyond its negotiated limits?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "dominance-inclusion-test-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "actors-and-reach", "name": "Actors and reach", "description": "Identifies whose power is at issue, over whom, and at what scale.", "rationale": "A claim about male dominance can otherwise imply uniform power among men or generalize an encounter to an entire society.", "layers": [ { "id": "gendered-actor-categories", "name": "Gendered actor categories", "description": "Clarifies classifications and variation within the populations being compared.", "findings": [ { "id": "classification-and-disaggregation", "name": "Classification and disaggregation", "description": "Each claim should explain how male or man categories are assigned and which differences within those categories matter.", "questions": [ { "text": "Does the evidence classify people by sex, gender identity, perceived gender or an institutional category?", "kind": "definition", "id": "classification-and-disaggregation-q01" }, { "text": "How does the observed power distribution vary with class, race, age, disability or other locally relevant positions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "classification-and-disaggregation-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "relational-and-temporal-reach", "name": "Relational and temporal reach", "description": "Bounds claims to affected actors, activities and observation periods.", "findings": [ { "id": "scope-of-control", "name": "Scope of control", "description": "A dominance assessment should identify the choices controlled and distinguish temporary, domain-specific and persistent asymmetries.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which people face constrained choices, in which activities, and during what period?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "scope-of-control-q01" }, { "text": "What evidence permits extending this claim from an individual relationship or encounter to an institution or wider population?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "scope-of-control-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "capacities-and-mechanisms", "name": "Capacities and mechanisms", "description": "Examines how the alleged gendered asymmetry operates.", "rationale": "Recognizing male dominance requires specifying practical sources of power and how they affect others' options.", "layers": [ { "id": "authority-and-dependence", "name": "Authority and dependence", "description": "Examines decision rights, resource access and the costs of refusal.", "findings": [ { "id": "effective-control", "name": "Effective control", "description": "Assessment should compare formal entitlements with actual allocation, veto and enforcement capacities.", "questions": [ { "text": "Who can authorize, veto or reverse consequential decisions, and how does that compare with formal roles?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-control-q01" }, { "text": "Which resources or dependencies allow men in this setting to restrict others' choices, if any?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "effective-control-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "maintenance-and-enforcement", "name": "Maintenance and enforcement", "description": "Investigates candidate practices that reproduce or enforce male advantage.", "findings": [ { "id": "gendered-maintenance-pathways", "name": "Gendered maintenance pathways", "description": "Exclusion, credibility judgments, recruitment practices and sanctions are candidate mechanisms to investigate, not assumed explanations.", "questions": [ { "text": "What observed practices connect male classification to access, credibility, compliance or protection from accountability?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gendered-maintenance-pathways-q01" }, { "text": "What records or accounts support this mechanism, and what observations would challenge it?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "gendered-maintenance-pathways-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-inference", "name": "Evidence and inference", "description": "Evaluates how observations support a claim of male dominance.", "rationale": "Representation, unequal outcomes and individual testimony answer different questions and should not be treated as interchangeable proof.", "layers": [ { "id": "operational-indicators", "name": "Operational indicators", "description": "Connects the selected definition to observable evidence.", "findings": [ { "id": "indicator-validity", "name": "Indicator validity", "description": "Indicators should demonstrate the selected power dimension and state what they cannot establish.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do the selected measures demonstrate control or constraint rather than merely count men, speaking time or unequal outcomes?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "indicator-validity-q01" }, { "text": "Who collected the evidence, with what sampling method, denominator and relevant omissions?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "indicator-validity-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "competing-explanations", "name": "Competing explanations", "description": "Distinguishes description of an asymmetry from explanation of its causes.", "findings": [ { "id": "gender-link-and-alternatives", "name": "Gender link and alternatives", "description": "A gendered explanation should be assessed alongside other relevant factors and their possible interaction with gender.", "questions": [ { "text": "What comparison supports a gender-linked explanation after considering role, seniority, wealth and other relevant factors?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "gender-link-and-alternatives-q01" }, { "text": "Which observations contradict the claim, and do they narrow its scope or undermine its proposed mechanism?", "kind": "boundary", "id": "gender-link-and-alternatives-q02" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "contestation-and-change", "name": "Contestation and change", "description": "Records how affected actors interpret the asymmetry and how proposed changes would be judged.", "rationale": "An agent needs grounds for evaluating action without assuming that every disparity has the same remedy or that apparent agreement establishes freedom.", "layers": [ { "id": "voice-refusal-and-exit", "name": "Voice, refusal and exit", "description": "Examines whether people can challenge authority and exercise alternatives.", "findings": [ { "id": "practical-contestability", "name": "Practical contestability", "description": "Assessments should record affected people's interpretations alongside the practical consequences of dissent, refusal and departure.", "questions": [ { "text": "How do differently situated affected people describe the power relationship, and whose account is missing?", "kind": "provenance", "id": "practical-contestability-q01" }, { "text": "What happens when someone refuses, challenges a decision or attempts to leave?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "practical-contestability-q02" } ] } ] }, { "id": "response-and-reassessment", "name": "Response and reassessment", "description": "Links possible actions to evidenced mechanisms and meaningful changes in power.", "findings": [ { "id": "mechanism-specific-response", "name": "Mechanism-specific response", "description": "Proposed responses should specify whose options would expand and how changes in effective control would be verified.", "questions": [ { "text": "Which proposed action addresses the demonstrated source of control, and whose priorities inform it?", "kind": "action", "id": "mechanism-specific-response-q01" }, { "text": "What follow-up evidence would distinguish increased participation from a change in decision authority, dependence or exposure to sanctions?", "kind": "measurement", "id": "mechanism-specific-response-q02" }, { "text": "How will affected people identify retaliation, displacement of control or other unintended consequences?", "kind": "action", "id": "mechanism-specific-response-q03" } ] } ] } ] }, { "id": "evidence-and-external-alignment", "name": "Evidence and external alignment", "description": "What the world already says about this thing, gathered so the model can be checked against it.", "rationale": "A model that cannot be lined up against existing standards, identifiers and practice cannot be adopted by anyone who already uses them.", "layers": [ { "id": "reported-evidence", "name": "Reported evidence", "description": "Findings from the breadth pass, kept separate from the structural claims.", "findings": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes", "name": "Check these first", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "No sense is recorded: confirm whether the entry concerns human gender relations, animal behaviour or another usage before fixing its scope.", "Feminist and social-scientific accounts differ over the mechanisms, extent and explanatory priority of male dominance; no single causal account is assumed here.", "The measurements are possible operationalisations, not a universal index or diagnostic threshold; this description is based on recall rather than checked sources." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-confidence-notes-q01", "text": "Which of these check these first hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-kinds", "name": "Kinds and varieties", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Institutional male dominance in political and economic decision-making", "Male dominance in household authority and resource control", "Interpersonal male dominance in interaction and decision-making", "Male-over-female dominance in animal social relationships" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-kinds-q01", "text": "Which of these kinds and varieties hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-real-world-use", "name": "Real-world use", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Analysing how authority and resources are distributed by gender within institutions", "Studying household bargaining and control over money, work and reproductive decisions", "Comparing explanations of persistent gender inequality", "Investigating sex differences in dominance relationships in animal societies" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-real-world-use-q01", "text": "Which of these real-world use hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-measurements", "name": "Typical measurements", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "quantity": "Share of specified leadership positions occupied by men", "typical_range": "0-100; representation alone does not establish dominance", "unit": "percent" }, { "quantity": "Proportion of observed male-female agonistic encounters won by males", "typical_range": "0-100; interpretation depends on species, encounter definitions and sampling", "unit": "percent" } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-measurements-q01", "text": "Which of these typical measurements hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards", "name": "Failure modes and hazards", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "Treating male numerical predominance as sufficient evidence of power or control", "Assuming that all men dominate all women and overlooking differences associated with class, race, age and other social positions", "Inferring that observed dominance is biologically inevitable or morally justified", "Generalising from one institution, society or animal species to all others", "Conflating dominance with aggression, physical strength or reproductive success" ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-failure-modes-and-hazards-q01", "text": "Which of these failure modes and hazards hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-regional-variation", "name": "Regional variation", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ "In human societies, male authority varies across political institutions, workplaces, households and religious settings; these domains need not follow the same pattern.", "Matrilineal descent or matrilocal residence does not by itself establish female political or household dominance.", "Formal commitments to gender equality can coexist with unequal informal authority and resource control." ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-regional-variation-q01", "text": "Which of these regional variation hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] }, { "id": "evidence-neighbours", "name": "Neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart", "description": "Recalled without web access and unsourced; every item is a lead to verify.", "evidence": [ { "name": "Patriarchy", "difference": "Usually denotes a broader social system that institutionalises male power; male dominance can describe a particular relationship or setting without establishing such a system." }, { "name": "Sexism", "difference": "Concerns sex- or gender-based prejudice, stereotyping and discrimination; male dominance concerns the distribution or exercise of power." }, { "name": "Male supremacy", "difference": "As an ideology, asserts male superiority or entitlement to rule; male dominance can describe an observed arrangement without endorsing that claim." }, { "name": "Hegemonic masculinity", "difference": "Concerns culturally privileged forms of masculinity that legitimate gender hierarchy, rather than simply the presence of male authority." }, { "name": "Dominance hierarchy", "difference": "Ranks individuals through social relationships and can occur within either sex; male dominance specifically identifies a sex-associated pattern." } ], "questions": [ { "id": "evidence-neighbours-q01", "text": "Which of these neighbouring kinds and how to tell them apart hold for the sense of male dominance this model covers, and on what evidence?", "kind": "provenance" } ] } ] } ] } ] }, "openQuestions": [ "Which attributed definitions and scholarly traditions should anchor this registry entry, and where do they disagree about what constitutes dominance?", "Does the registry intend a human social concept only, or a broader concept that must link 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