This morning, on the way to taking my daughter to the orthodontist, i was listening to the radio.
After the weather report, there was a segment on hugging. Is hugging appropriate in the work place?
The report started by saying that women don't have as much of an issue with hugging as men do.
Is this true? Do men have intimacy issues with hugging? hugging someone of their own gender?
Are women more comfortable with hugging than men?
I know that I'm a hugger......i hug people as a greeting, to cheer them up or just because. Why do you
hug? Who do you hug?
The radio personnel who was giving the report was a woman. She went on to talk about the three different
types of hugs. They're saying that hugging is replacing the hand shake.
- the first kind of hug is the "HIP HOP HUG"-use your right hand to give a hand shake and hug with your left arm, giving two pats on the back
- the second kind of hug is the "TILT HUG"-you lean in and only hug with your upper half of your body
- the third kind of hug is the "FULL FRONTAL HUG"- this is your all out, go for it hug!
She asked the two men in her office to demonstrate each of the hugs. They resisted saying, "What's wrong with the "fist pump" as a hug?" You could hear it in their voices that they were NOT COMFORTABLE!!!
T.V. shows like The Sopranos and Entourage have made hugging acceptable as a greeting. Will men agree? I think women find it very acceptable. So ask yourself............are you a hugger?
Hahahaa…that is a very cool subject. I am a dude… and I’m a hugger. In my first weeks here in the US, I thought I would end up in jail. I would hug just about everybody, the “hip hop hug”. Good friends I hug “bear hug”. I realized soon enough that lots of guys are very afraid to be seen as “gays”. I should not even say afraid, I should say TERRIFIED. They don’t hug friends and they speak and act tough. I never really understood why, but I respect the culture and try not to hug anybody. I still hug my wife and my little boy like there is no tomorrow. My dad is also a hugger. That may maybe where I got it from. But, jokes aside, I never thought about it that way…hugging is a cultural thing.
ReplyDeleteVery interesting blog Dee.