Minimalist Wrote:So if you had a house guest who plopped his ass down on your couch and started telling you that he didn't like the color of your carpets and your furniture was shitty and why on earth were you serving lamb for dinner, you'd just sit there and take it?
What I'll take depends on what is being done. I would be a colossal ass to throw guests out of my house for not shaking my hand when it's their custom not to. It's called hospitality to have some respect for the sensitivities of others, and you should err in the direction of not making them do things they don't want to do. Frankly, it would be pretty creepy to insist that someone else's child has to clasp my hand or they're out, and it would be reasonable for their parent to expect a better reason for forcing their child to comply with my demand than 'that's how I do, and if you don't like it, fuck off!'. Legally speaking, I can be as much of an ass as I want, including threatening their lives if they don't leave fast enough to suit me (it being America).
The school's original accommodation was a sound one: if the boys wouldn't shake the hands of their female teachers, they wouldn't shake the hands of the male ones, either.
'If you don't like it, leave!' is a Donald Trump level argument. His exact words, I think.
I'm not anti-Christian. I'm anti-stupid.
