Quickwrite #10

So, what do you think? View YouTube.com: "'Slap her': Children's reactions" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b2OcKQ_mbiQ) and then reflect on how you feel about how these Italian children reacted to the topic – Would anything be different if they were American children? Why or why not? Explain.

I think, or at least I would hope, that young American boys would feel the same way about violence. I think that the reason why little  boys are taught not to hit girls is flawed in both ways. Some of the responses were valid like "Jesus does not want us to hit each other" or "I'm against violence", but some were just "don't hit girls they are too pretty". Everyone should be taught as children that despite physical differences, violence inflicted on another human being is wrong. I think many people understand that now, but teaching little boys not to hit pretty little girls never works. After a while they aren't just little girls anymore and people forget about childhood innocence. Anger heats up and the "don't hit a girl" ideology fails. A non0violent approach to raising children is always best, but not for the reason that little girls are too weak and too pretty to be hit. Be that as it may, teaching children not to hit girls because they are girls is still better than the alternative.