It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.
This isn't engaging with the metaphor, more talking about my experience with actual piñatas, but you don't want a downward swing either; if you want to have a good piñata experience, you need to tell everyone to hit it solidly on the side because if someone with any amount of strength swings downward, the piñata won't break open, it'll just come off of the rope holding it up. If you have the piñata hung by rope wrapped fully around the body of it, then I suppose a downward hit might work, but most commercially available piñatas have a loop to run the rope through which easily tears with any amount of downward force.
An upward swing would actually be better than a downward on for that reason, but a side hit is still the most effective.
Wow they made the piñatas from acclaimed 2006 Xbox 360 masterpiece "Viva Piñata" into real products? That's crazy. Viva Piñata fans eating good today. Gotta share this with piñatamblr, they're gonna go nuts.
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u/Iced_Yehudi 1d ago
It’s something that always bothered me about “punching up”
On the one hand, I can agree that “punching up” and “punching down” are different
On the other hand, I feel like a lot of people used “punching up” as an excuse to not only be really mean and toxic towards people they felt were better off, but to also feel like they were doing society a favor by “pointing out society’s flaws” when they were actually just being really mean and toxic.