The role of Israel Today’s entertainment correspondent has many side effects, including the constant flash of PR messages and photos from launches, as well as countless private messages on every social network, of people who are curious to know what I think about current affairs.
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Still, the mind did not let go, thoughts raced and messages continued to flow into the inbox non-stop.
It turns out that this is an old phenomenon, some would say strange, which also won quite a bit of criticism abroad.
And with us? Aviva Tavori kisses her son Ben-El on the back of the neck when he is half naked and in another picture their lips are close together and his tongue is out; Lior Coca was documented with her father kissing on the lips; Valin and Liam Golan, brothers in adolescence plus, with a kiss plus a tongue. All of these, without exception, have drawn controversial responses.
And that’s not all. This phenomenon is so common that there is even a Facebook page with almost ten thousand followers called “cribs kissing relatives in the mouth”. It’s a rather strange page laden with documentation of family members of Oriental descent in a variety of positions kissing each other. What is strange is the ethnic affiliation, or is it at all a custom that I myself, an original Moroccan, missed?
I was debating whether to write this. I asked myself, what am I trying to say, why is it so bothering me and why do I actually care? I also thought of responses I would get in the style: “The problem in your head that you even think about it”. And you will argue with it.
The truth is that until this moment I have no unequivocal answer, whether it is good or bad, legitimate or not, except for the fact that I never thought of kissing my parents and brothers on the lips, not even for a second. And you know what? Sometimes it is permissible to say that it is just strange without fully understanding to the end why.