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".

  • 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."