Hitting Women

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I think that our aversion to hitting women stems from the Christian philosophy of "give honor to the woman, as the weaker vessel" etc. This was a core ideal as well of the Chivalric Code of the Middle ages. Let's face it guys, our mothers, with the willing cooperation of our fathers in a normal family scenario, teach us pretty early on that this is a taboo. I slapped out at my mother once after she had administered a well deserved blow for something that I said out of the way. I soon thought that the world was coming to an end!

It's referred to as Elephant Training by my wife, who so thoroughly intimidated both of our sons in their childhood years, that all she has to do now is raise her backhand to illicit immediate surrender. She is such a drill sergeant!