Like every time someone posts a study about how it’s bad, you get a huge flood of people saying stuff like “I was spanked as a kid, yet I’m fine”.

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I think it’s one of two things:

  1. They’re chuds who think beating people into submission is the right and correct thing to do.

And/or

  1. They experienced corporeal punishment as kids and think if they acknowledge that was wrong/damaging of their parents/guardians to do, they’re admitting that their parents are bad people or that they’re “damaged” and “lesser” in some way from having experienced it.
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Your second point happens to describe exactly why so many people defend circumcision too. The parallels are strikingly similar.

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This is pretty much all hardships isnt it?

“I had to work 14 hour days when I was young so you should too!”

“I had to walk to school in the blizzard up a hill in the ice so you should too!”

“When I was young we didnt have birth control so the young people shouldnt have it now either!”

Instead of having the response of: “That shit was horrible and no one should have to face it ever again.” that normal people should have.

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I think it’s related to trauma.

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“I worked hard to pay for my school, so school loan debt shouldn’t be cancelled for anyone.”

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Yeah there’s alot of masculinity/penis psychology going on there.

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