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".
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".
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 think it's related to trauma.
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.
"I worked hard to pay for my school, so school loan debt shouldn't be cancelled for anyone."
Yeah there's alot of masculinity/penis psychology going on there.