what's so chilling, to me, in all the evangelical parenting manuals i read and the testimony i received from survivors, is the idea in evangelical circles that striking your child in a cool and ritualistic manner is somehow better than doing so in anger. it isn't. it really isn't
I remember this idea of not hitting kids when you're angry coming up once with my grandmother, who absolutely spanked my dad and his siblings. She responded, "Of course you hit them you're angry! What kind of monster hits a kid when they're NOT angry?!"
right its so much creepier if youre not mad?????
Yes, I did just block someone for talking shit about my grandma. We can know better and do better without taking a grotesquely simplified evil view of strangers' grandmas.
