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”.
I get spanked as an adult :pingu-horny:
I think it’s one of two things:
- They’re chuds who think beating people into submission is the right and correct thing to do.
And/or
- 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.
Your second point happens to describe exactly why so many people defend circumcision too. The parallels are strikingly similar.
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.
“I was spanked as a kid, yet I’m fine”.
Are you though? :hopium:
Those parents who approve of corporal punishment contend that they only spank as a last resort, do it only for serious misbehavior and only when they are calm. But the recordings often revealed the opposite. Parents seemed angry when striking their child, they did it reactively and for minor transgressions.
On average, spankings happened only 30 seconds after a conflict started, and half the time parents sounded angry before any conflict began. The study is in the Journal of Family Psychology.
Previous studies using parental self-reports have estimated that parents spank about 18 times per year. But this study using real-time audio found the median rate to be 18 times per week—and this is among people who knew they were being monitored. That means that among the mothers who spanked, half of them spanked more than 18 times per week.
:jesus-christ:
A great reminder that self-reported surveys are often just surveys of what people think is socially acceptable.
18 times per week—and this is among people who knew they were being monitored.
:sadness-abysmal:
When education is not liberating, the dream of the oppressed is to become the oppressor, or something.
