This is the latest thing sweeping the business world: banning the handshake (https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/8930608/handshakes-banned-workplace-rules-sexual-harassment-claims/).
It’s not totally irrational. The idea is to “ban all forms of physical contact to avoid confusion about what kind of touch is appropriate”–because that’s how you wind up with some #MeToo nut filing a sexual harassment lawsuit. Those can be expensive. So you just ban all contact whatsoever, and you’re covered.
Until they come at you for verbal harassment, microaggression, unwanted eye contact, or thinking bad thoughts.
Meanwhile, a survey says that three out of four people in business want the handshake ban. We are at liberty to disbelieve that.
You know what’s so weird about this whole thing? It’s like pole dancing in a burqa. They want to be puritans and libertines at the same time. All these new rules restricting virtually any form of male-female interaction are drawn up against a backdrop of the most widespread sexual anarchy ever seen in history. I mean, if you can get through the day without seeing any pornographic images at all, that’s a pretty neat trick. And they start on you in first grade–with all the gender stuff, “you can be a boy one day and a girl the next, depending on how you feel,” invitations to your teacher’s same-sex “marriage,” there’s no bottom to this pit.
Our culture is racing off in two opposite directions at the same time.
May the Lord defend us.