I agree with spanking. In fact, I use a rod. It's plastic, thinner than a pencil, and 21 inches long. One flick of the wrist is enough.
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Well Mr "I don't know what a myth is", apparently we also need to tell you that those rods are to help you pull your curtains, not to satisfy your incestual, sadistic pleasures!
So now only fundamentalists spank their kids? That's a new one for me.
And why oh why do people insist on inserting "incest" into it? There is absolutely nothing in that comment that remotely hints at any incestual feeling, and there's no need to add it. There are plenty of quotes here stupid enough all on their own to have to add stupid stuff like that to make it sound worse than it is.
hairband:
That doesn't make those methods okay. It's a terrible argument. I know it's not in the same league but plenty of people who were sexually abused turn out fine, that doesn't mean there's nothing wrong with what the parent did.
I'm not really anti-spanking, nor am I pro-spanking, but I do not see the need to use implements like this. It's too far.
Skeptical:
Fundies do seem more pro-spanking on average than non-fundies and seem to be more extreme in their methods. Plus, this is from Christian Forums so chances are he is a fundie. Also, there are reckognised links between sexual abuse and abusive spanking. And if you're not familiar with the connection between sexuality and spanking you haven't been on the innternet long.
Although that of course doesn't mean that all parents who spank get some sort of sexual feelings from it or anything, and I will agree that nothing he said quoted here implies that he does. But I didn't see anyone mentioning incest. In fact you were the first one who brought it up.
Spanking: Not necessarily weird.
Measuring your spanking rod and posting it on the internet: kind of weird.
The name "evolisamyth" is the most fundie aspect of this e-mail. Still pretty weird otherwise.
Spanking: very short, only hand spanking, and until your hand starts to hurt (If your hand hurts, imagine the pain on the receiving end). Comfort the child afterwards. Use to correct extreme misbehavior (refusal to read the bible does not count!), and only after everything else fails. Otherwise, you are teaching your kid that hitting those that can't hit back (usually smaller then him/herself) is OK.
And then they'll cause a massive disturbance in public only to scream police brutality the moment an officer touches them because hypocrisy flows thicker than blood in these people's veins. Meanwhile their kid grows up thinking that "hit them" is an acceptable fallback solution for dealing with other people, helped in part by their parent's apparent apathy when striking them.
One of the keys they used, before the idea of universally banning spanking, was to always use your hand. That way you have a clue of the force you're using.
What the spouse needs to do someday is sneak up and give them a sense of what being whipped like that feels like. Full on wind up smack with the welt maker.
Confused?
So were we! You can find all of this, and more, on Fundies Say the Darndest Things!
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