Lyn Black🍁Cat 🍂Did anyone else have a teacher or teachers who did birthday spankings?
Does anyone else hate birthday spankings because of this?
Chadee 🦨🐋, Dream Witch 🌕 🌊@aldersprig Family did, but never had a teacher do that. Would be weird and inappropriate to me for them to.
@matoakit I know right? But I can clearly remember it in 1st grad!!
Ankə 🌱@aldersprig ...what are birthday spankings?
@Anke This lighthearted thing where you get your number years of new age in spankings "and one to grow on." Not sure I ever knew the theory behind it.
@aldersprig Wow, that's fucked up. No, teachers hitting pupils was outlawed before I was born.
@Anke I wanna live in Germany.
I mean, that statement is un-researched and I'm not sure how I really feel about it and stuff but... I agree. Fucked up.
Ciel the Cozy Goth Prince@aldersprig Honest to cats I have literally only seen that at kink clubs. Teachers used to do that???
@skysailor Yeah, it certainly took on a sort of kinky note as an adult but I still ...
Well, my brain reads spankings as punishment so I don't like it anyway, but I also still have that thing going on.
Also, in your 40s it sorta sucks ;-)
@aldersprig @skysailor wait, wait... are you saying this is still going on now, even though you don't like it?
@skysailor Maybe Mrs. Bear was just messed up?
@aldersprig I guess so. Aiya. (And, of course, kink clubs being kink clubs, it was only done with consent... unlike this classroom, I'm guessing.)
@skysailor Yeeeah. YEeeah Consent what that?
Rowyn@aldersprig what no
definitely not.
Nuhnimom-kenobi@aldersprig I... Wait... What.. I. Huh. I'm too confused + low blood sugar to say anything meaningful.
So. Confused.
So. Confused.
FiXato (fallback)@aldersprig
I don't think I've heard of it before, but apparently it's present in various forms throughout the world: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birthday_customs_and_celebrations#Punches,_bumps,_and_other_birthday_torments
It sounds really awkward to me, especially since it seems primarily aimed at underaged people who can't properly consent...