Most of us here are old enough to have grown up getting spankings - I would never classify that as beating. I don’t find her remark funny at all and even sadder is that she feels now she has to back track and call it a joke instead of admitting what happened. She gave too much detail to later claim it was a joke.
Heck, I was smacked by a nun once. Guess I acted up in her class.
“”Most of us here are old enough to have grown up getting spankings””
And wonder of wonders, we survived to this ripe old age. Well, of course, I’m speaking for myself.
My cousins and I have had discussions about this in our “later” years - we remember all the spankings but we have to admit they didn’t really change anything. Our mothers were sisters and whether at their place or ours, the discipline was still the same. It was a look from the fathers that was more frightening, we all agreed!