Rape Crisis Hysteria Goes After Grandma: GSUSA Decrees That Kids Must Not Be Compelled to Give Grandma A Hug

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   But to fully appreciate this, you've got to take a look at the original, the title of which is--and I'm not making this up: "She Doesn't  Owe Anyone A Hug, Not Even On The Holidays."  Note the picture: a little girl dressed in a kind of college-y...or twenty-something-y...way, staring pensively.
   This is one of those bits of crazy that really does capture something about the crazy, crazy essence of political correctness / social "justice:"

   Girl Scouts of the USA issued a warning to parents this holiday season, asking them to think twice before forcing their daughters to hug relatives at gatherings.
   “Think of it this way, telling your child that she owes someone a hug either just because she hasn’t seen this person in a while or because they gave her a gift can set the stage for her questioning whether she ‘owes’ another person any type of physical affection when they have bought her dinner or done something else seemingly nice for her later in life,” reads the post on the Girl Scouts’ website.

   That's right! Some semi-employed 24-year-old women's studies major working part-time as the Minster of Gender Correctness for the girl scouts has, in classic liberal/progressive fashion, decided that she knows better than all the parents in the world stretching back forever...because she thought of a completely unverified story about how hugging grandma might cause rape. 

   But wait! There's more!:

   The organization’s missive to parents comes as allegations of sexual misconduct by men ring out from every industry, including Hollywood, politics and the media.
   One in nine girls under the age of 18 experiences sexual abuse or assault at the hands of an adult, according to data shared by the Rape, Abuse and Incest National Network (RAINN), an anti-sexual assault organization.
   Past research also suggests that nearly one in three episodes of sexual abuse of a child is perpetrated by a family member.
   The Girl Scouts' post encourages parents to offer their daughters ways to show gratitude that do not require physical contact, including "a smile, a high-five, or even an air kiss."

   And don't forget--these are people who are convinced beyond any shadow of a doubt that they are the rational side in the culture war.

   Here's another gem:

“No one should be compelled to touch anyone they don't want to, especially children,” wrote another commenter in support. “It is HER choice if she wants to give or receive touch and we should respect that choice…”

   "Give or receive touch"? Nobody who says something like "give or receive touch" should ever be listened to. About anything. Ever. There's really something deeply wrong with these people.

   Anyway: I reckon it should be up to the kid whether he or she gets vaccinated. I mean, if non-consensual hugging of grandma is a moral misdemeanor, then non-consensual stabbing and injection of viruses is a felony.

   Thing is, you dumbasses: kids are stupid and ignorant and largely amoral little monster. Grandma deserves a hug. Grandma is sweet and kind and old and wants a hug from the kid so much. Kid is just being obstinate. Give grandma a damn hug, ya little cretin. The kid himself will thank you later. Because the kid himself will--when no longer a cranky, stupid, amoral little monster--realize that grandma deserved a damn hug. And how many people wish they'd hugged their grandmas less? The vaccination analogy was deliberate: like hugging grandma, it's something the kid might not want to do at the time...because kids are often irrational and loathsome...but were they rational, they'd agree with their parents. And when they are, they will. It's like your drunk friend wanting to drive home. He'll see the wisdom of your paternalism when he's older.

   And I guess making them drink their milk will teach them that people can just tell them what to drink! And the next thing you know...sexual assault in the fraternity house...

   Here's C. S. Lewis in The Abolition of Man:

Hitherto the plans of educationalists have achieved very little of what they attempted and indeed, when we read them — how Plato would have every infant "a bastard nursed in a bureau", and Elyot would have the boy see no men before the age of seven and, after that, no women,' and how Locke wants children to have leaky shoes and no turn for poetry — we may well thank the beneficent obstinacy of real mothers, real nurses, and (above all) real children for preserving the human race in such sanity as it still possesses. 

   A friend of mine once said to me: a liberal is somebody who thinks he's smarter than everybody else who ever lived. I didn't fully appreciate that point at the time...but it reverberated around in my head for twenty years or so. And as the years go by, I'm more and more inclined to think it might, unfortunately, be right.