Now onto something more serious, and @Censored can totally point out all the areas where I'm wrong since I'm about to talk about kids, and I'm not an expert like he is. . . .
I've mentioned before how disheartening I find it that the MeToo Movement has turned the simple gesture of hugging into a form of sexual harassment, but I think it's downright sad that we've reached a point where we're indoctronating kids into believing this.
I mean, hugging is being thrown into the same category as "consent," which I think it just downright horrible - that makes it sound like hugging is a form of molestation, when in fact, hugging should be just a simple gesture of showing somebody you care about them, and isn't this what children need during their informative years? Care? Nurturing? Unconditional love? This feels like just the opposite, like we're conditioning them on all of that. We're already living in a time where we want them to grow up faster than they should, almost robbing them of childhood, but this feels like we're presently raising a generation of cold and bitter cynics (says the guy who's been known to be cynical himself).
I can understand if hugging makes some people uncomfortable because of certain personal issues, like social anxieties, or body boundaries, and the like, but I still feel like it's wrong to teach children that what should be a non-sexual gesture of showing somebody you care about them is a form of molestation and sexual harassment that should never be exchanged.
I've mentioned before how disheartening I find it that the MeToo Movement has turned the simple gesture of hugging into a form of sexual harassment, but I think it's downright sad that we've reached a point where we're indoctronating kids into believing this.
I mean, hugging is being thrown into the same category as "consent," which I think it just downright horrible - that makes it sound like hugging is a form of molestation, when in fact, hugging should be just a simple gesture of showing somebody you care about them, and isn't this what children need during their informative years? Care? Nurturing? Unconditional love? This feels like just the opposite, like we're conditioning them on all of that. We're already living in a time where we want them to grow up faster than they should, almost robbing them of childhood, but this feels like we're presently raising a generation of cold and bitter cynics (says the guy who's been known to be cynical himself).
I can understand if hugging makes some people uncomfortable because of certain personal issues, like social anxieties, or body boundaries, and the like, but I still feel like it's wrong to teach children that what should be a non-sexual gesture of showing somebody you care about them is a form of molestation and sexual harassment that should never be exchanged.