You Should Never Hit Women: That’s the Lesson To Teach
The other day I heard an interview discussing this years 3rd annual Waterloo Arts Festival. The organizer said there would be a Human Pinata for kids to beat with sticks. That’s what you do with a Pinata; you hit it repeatedly with sticks until all the candy falls out of it. I question their decision to hire a FEMALE acrobat/performance artist to be the Human Pinata. Quite simply, the act of beating a woman in any way, shape, or form is wrong! We keep saying that children will learn the behaviours that we show them; why would we show them that it’s okay to hit a woman “sometimes”? Even if they don’t actually hit her, they will be trying to; and that’s the wrong lesson. Just something to think about.
Jeff Allan