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".

  • budoguytenkaichi [he/him,they/them]
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    3 years ago

    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.
    • TankieTanuki [he/him]
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      edit-2
      3 years ago

      Your second point happens to describe exactly why so many people defend circumcision too. The parallels are strikingly similar.

      • GenderIsOpSec [she/her]
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        3 years ago

        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.

          • Gay_Wrath [fae/faer]
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            3 years ago

            Yeah. I think to those people, they have to rationalize their parents traumatizing them in some way. It's really sad and fucked up. The child-brain rationalizes the trauma into thinking they deserved it or it bettered them in some way, and the adult brain either addresses that or keeps the rationalization going.

        • OgdenTO [he/him]
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          3 years ago

          "I worked hard to pay for my school, so school loan debt shouldn't be cancelled for anyone."