The "dreadful insinuation", I believe, was my asking whether you still administered corporal punishment to your child when he was an adolescent. You did post that you and your son "matched wills", and that "Men are more ruthless, as a rule, and therefore have an advantage in taming other men... " I thought it was a fair question, in light of the fact that you, yourself, made the following comments:
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"One of the things that I have noticed over the years is that boys are boys long before they take a big testesterone hit during adolescence, so it is a good idea to give them a sense of who is boss early, or they will be an even bigger pain. Men are more ruthless, as a rule, and therefore have an advantage in taming other men... "
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"It takes a lot of time: not just quality, quantity. Thanks...I am the one who stayed home with him, since I wanted to write, and I think having a male to match wills with may have helped with a boy."
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"Who said anything about brutalizing anybody? I believe in moderate corporal punishment, a couple of spanks on the bottom when they are little, but that is not especially what I had in mind. Mostly, it is a matter of who gives up first. Woman are more inclined to be nice, men are more inclined to think that the discipline is important. Children test limits, boys are especially prone to doing so... " |
