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[00:00:19] Find out more at podbread.com I was watching a clip of a student who graduated high school and she walked past some instructors without shaking her hands. And I was looking at the comments. Of course, some of them were racial since she was black.
[00:01:02] And other comments said she should have shaken hands out of respect. I have a different take. Welcome to the short form podcast Dreas Point of View. I am your host, Andrea. And I would like you to follow me on the socials.
[00:01:20] You can find me at Dreas Point of View on IG, Pinterest, threads and Facebook. You can also follow me on X and Spill at Dreas Point. I was going to do an episode talking about how much I dislike handshakes anyway. I think they're just forced physical contact.
[00:01:38] People mainly men. Shove their hand in your face after knowing that they've been touching things all day. And more than likely, having to wash their hands. Then they want to give it to you. I feel obligated to do it, especially when they shake others' hands around me.
[00:01:55] And then there's that vice grip that they tend to give you. It's all just cringe to me. I've also noticed that I tend to not like the person shortly after I shake their hand. I don't know, it's like they are not living up to that handshake.
[00:02:10] Plus, like someone said, it's a transfer of energy. It should be optional, not mandatory. But getting back to some of the comments one person or a few people said that she should be grateful that she graduated and just shake their hand. She should show some class.
[00:02:32] She should be above everyone and should have smiled and just shook their hands just because you never know who's watching. So basically they were part of the people pleasing gang. Because that's what that is.
[00:02:47] Others were, we don't know what she had to go through to get to that point. A lot of instructors are vindictive. They clearly did something to her because sometimes I mean, you know, we do have bad instructors. Some people were glad that she stood on principle.
[00:03:07] Now, when I graduated, I never thought, I never knew there was an option to not shake hands at a graduation. So I admire her for doing what she thought was right. I mean, I never had problems with any of my instructors when it was time to graduate.
[00:03:25] I was just glad to get out of there. I also thought that my parents probably wouldn't be happy if I didn't shake hands and I really didn't want to hear anything they had to say.
[00:03:36] Plus, there was so much adrenaline when you're going up there, you wait for your name to be called and everything is just so quick. I can't imagine just walking past someone with her hand extended.
[00:03:47] And yeah, to me that's, I don't know, like I just, I just, I just, I just didn't know what she was doing. But then again, like I said, my experience of graduating was pretty pleasant.
[00:04:03] I didn't have a problem with her not shaking because I don't know the backstory. You can clearly see that some of the instructors were expecting a shake while others knew what the deal was. One man even gave a head nod because I guess he knew.
[00:04:20] He said, I knew I'm not going to get one, but we could just do this. We could just do the head nod. I mean, I'm not really a fan of expectations or obligations. So deciding to shake a person's hands should be optional.
[00:04:34] Like I mentioned, it's forced physical contact. I know I've declined a few handshakes from men. So I'm understood and I remember one in particular getting offended.
[00:04:43] We were on a train platform and he was talking to me and in his intro, he put out his hand and I said that I didn't shake. And he was like, he said something along the lines of I just say it was because of COVID.
[00:04:57] And I said it wasn't, I just don't like to shake. Imagine an energy transfer had I have shaken his hand. And as a woman, what do you think? Do you feel obligated when a guy puts his hand out or do you just decide on a fist bump?
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[00:05:34] My positive news story comes from Toronto, Canada. 17 year old Shedidma Anwalyri. I hope that's close to her name. She was one of two students who won a $10,000 scholarship to college for making her prom outfit out of duct tape. You heard it correctly, duct tape.
[00:05:54] She decided to make a pink suit instead since she considers herself to be a tomboy. So she didn't do a dress. She chose a suit. Her pink suit took 12 rolls of tape and 30 hours to create.
[00:06:14] Anwalyri states, I am proud of the piece of art I was able to create. I am truly happy for the opportunity to present this piece to the world as well as the message I wish to share through it.
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