Catholic and Enjoying It!
The Globe & Mail has posted an interesting article about how schools are banning affection that, in many cases, seems to be natural and normal.
Strangely, it seems that in this case, the USA and UK have been more censorious than Canada, which usually leads in the nanny-state sweepstakes.
Obviously, not all of this stuff they’re worried about is just simple uncomplicated friendship. But it does go to show how the sexualization of culture undermines real bonds of trust and interpersonal peace. I do think that good friendship is both a necessary precondition for, and a result of, chastity. It’s sad to see it undermined so. Anthony Esolen further illustrates the point.
Yup. Our reduction of all love to eros inevitably leads to these insane whipsaws. Normal people require all of the normal human loves (affection, friendship, eros and agape). But our culture now inflexibly decrees that only eros exists and that the other loves are simply sublimated forms of eros. So expressions of affection get ruthlessly labeled as incipient sexual abuse and banned by draconian zero tolerance idiots who are paranoid about lawsuits (or simply infected with the itch to domineer).
Zero tolerance policies are the bureaucratic substitute for thinking.
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