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swiss schools are forcing muslim boys to shake hands with women teachers or face a fine like what a barbaric country and culture 

(1, 2, 3) 

It’s a strange hill to die on, some weird teacher hand-shaking ritual. But honestly, how much longer are we going to pretend religious teachings that restrict women from touching men even just to shake hands are anything but massively sexist?

Personally I’m conflicted. Not because the religious excuse is tolerable. Because I don’t like the idea of forcing anyone to touch someone they don’t want to or be touched by someone they don’t want to in any situation that isn’t urgently serious. Won’t allow a heimlich is one thing, won’t allow… something as stupid as a handshake? What hill am I willing to die on?

Yeah I’m all for abolishing this mandatory handshake crap, especially if it’s one of those creepy authoritarian rituals meant to symbolize “I am the teacher, you are the pupil, you will prostrate yourself before me and accept my authority.”

Growing up I had some friends who transferred to my school from a private school, and they had to do humiliating shit like that.

But this clearly isn’t about that.

The tricky thing is that neither side is framing it as a matter of individual rights, but as preserving cultural integrity.

Then there’s us steel feminists who actually frame it as a matter of individual rights, bodily autonomy and the right to have whatever boundaries one wishes to have. We might criticize the structures that lead to people having widespread norms of such segregation in their physical contact (but also recognize that it’s not a clear-cut case of “white people’s arbitrary rules are Just Better™”), but the hill we are fully intending to die on is “boundaries matter, respect them no matter how silly you think they are”.

First they came for the muslims and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t want to get labelled a sexism apologist

Then they came for the neurodivergent and I didn’t speak out because I didn’t want to get labelled a creep apologist

Then they came for me, and other people didn’t speak out because we had already established firm precedent that the will of the mob overrides bodily autonomy

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    ^That. Cultural relativism is dangerous.

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