• givesomefucks@lemmy.world
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    3 months ago

    We had “optional” corporal punishment.

    You could choose swats with a paddle, or writing sentences over and over.

    Most people took swats, but I just picked sentences and never did them. They’d double the amount a couple times and eventually stop asking for them.

    But absolutely zero boys gave a shit about taking swats, it was no deterrent what so ever. Even knowing that there was an easy way out of the alternative, they’d just take swats and immediately forget it happened.

    If anything it made behavior worse, because they could do whatever and then have a few seconds of discomfort later if and only if they were caught doing the bad thing.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
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      3 months ago

      But absolutely zero boys gave a shit about taking swats

      Great time to remind everyone that the adult men who administer corporal punishment in schools do in fact take great pleasure in spanking teenage girls, and that girls opt-out of it more than boys because they know it will border on sexual assault.

      Girls have a higher pain tolerance than boys. They just know the horrific implications of being alone in a room with an older man who has authority and permission to use violence.

      • androogee (they/she)@midwest.social
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        2 months ago

        Girls have a higher pain tolerance than boys.

        Sounds like the sort of thing a doctor says while explaining himself at an inquisition.

        I’m seeing conflicting research on a cursory look.