The bit I quoted was basically the whole thing here, I wish I could find the one I’m thinking of!
The “focus on the family” style punishment focuses on telling the child that you’re doing it for their own good, that you’re purging their badness through pain, and focuses only on ritualized spanking on the buttocks.
Moving corporal punishment from a thing done in anger - like cuffing a child in anger (which is still awful) - to a thing done calmly, for “love” and “holy purpose” twists it into a whole other thing. There’s a lot of weirdness with shame, nudity or forced disrobing, and pain that gets dredged up there.
The bit I quoted was basically the whole thing here, I wish I could find the one I’m thinking of!
The “focus on the family” style punishment focuses on telling the child that you’re doing it for their own good, that you’re purging their badness through pain, and focuses only on ritualized spanking on the buttocks.
Moving corporal punishment from a thing done in anger - like cuffing a child in anger (which is still awful) - to a thing done calmly, for “love” and “holy purpose” twists it into a whole other thing. There’s a lot of weirdness with shame, nudity or forced disrobing, and pain that gets dredged up there.
Makes sense. Pisses me off that corporal punishment was ever seen as acceptable, especially today still.
Yeah, it’s really fucked up.