Coz you may be guilty of ruining the reputation of a place and get arrested for it.
I don’t think multiculturalists will claim I am ethnocentric when I argue here that it is absurd to punish anyone for a hug. There’s nothing indecent in it and any society that punishes it has a problem.
Maybe all the students in this uni, if they had any sense in them, should protest by hugging. They could invite me, if they are up to it.
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Ok, hugs please.
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That’s contrary to public order
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I won’t tell.
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I am on my way. It’s gonna be a big bear hug.
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Ok, see you soon…..
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The link won’t open sir. URL not found
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Fixed it now.
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Look, we have to draw the line somewhere. If we permit couples to hug it will undoubtedly lead to something even more salacious . . . like dancing. Best to nip this in the bud before things get out of hand.
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When you put it this way, it makes sense to nip things in the bud
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When I was young hugging was almost never seen in public in Aotearoa New Zealand, and absolutely never ever between adult males. Today hugging seems to be mandatory, and I absolutely loathe it. Like many autistics, I find contact unpleasant at best and revolting most of the time. I have no issue with other people hugging each other, but why do they insist that I must join in too? Most people refuse to accept that my reluctance to hug is anything other than rudeness, even when I explain why. Insisting that I’m talking nonsense and that everyone loves a hug is denying the reality of my experience. Even the virtual “hugs” offered by some bloggers sends a cold shudder through my body.
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I am not much of a hugger either, & definitely not from people I don’t know, or hardly know. I don’t initiate hugs either, unless its my husband or kids. I don’t much like being grabbed or touched willy nilly by just anyone, & group hugging is not my thing in any way shape or form.
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I differentiate between hugs and cuddles. The wife, small children and fury animals count as cuddles. Everyone and everything else, including sibblings, relatives and even my adult offspring count as hugs.
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Good way to differentiate them. I like it.
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My pets are a whole different story. Love to be blanketed.
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Hahaha, Barry.
That’s such a sharp line you draw
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My memory is hazy about my childhood but I don’t recall hugging being common. I don’t think anyone should force you into hugging them.
I once listened to a podcast of some fellow who had been in foster care and he said one of his deepest desires was for someone to just hug him.
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I don’t think it’s so much forcing you to hug them, It’s more that they are unable to comprehend that some people don’t feel like they do. It’s often claimed that autistic people lack empathy, but from my personal experience, most neurotypical people have absolutely no empathy towards the autistic experience.
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Like Marlon Brando once said to a guy who cut him off in traffic, “Hug this, you son of a bitch!”
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I like Marlon.
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One interesting question, thought: Couldn’t similar arguments be posited by those running afoul of MeToo? “I just gave her an innocent hug and the campus thought police hounded me out of my career.”
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That’s not entirely impossible. What to do?
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Jeezus effing christ! Are you kidding me? What the hell is wrong with people?
Oh… religion.
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I wish I was
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