http://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogicalComments on "Shaking hands is illogical" - Faerye Net2009-10-26T09:34:19+00:00http://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2554Re: Japanese approach?2009-10-26T09:34:19+00:002009-10-26T09:34:19+00:00<p>Bowing is super-complicated. There’s all this detail about how low you bow to whom, and I don’t think it’d go over well here.</p>
<p>I’ve never heard that about shaking hands, sister sledge, but I find it hard to credit— hasn’t shaking hands been around a looooong time? We probably should look it up. I wonder if it has anything to do with swearing fealty — when you swore fealty, you put your hands together and the lord put his on either side (it’s why most Christians pray with their hands together — it was originally a way of establishing God as part of the feudal system, and thus legitimizing the feudal system.)</p>Felicityhttp://faerye.nethttp://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2553Japanese approach?2009-10-23T15:09:44+00:002009-10-23T15:09:44+00:00<p>This is a great idea…I have always felt that shaking hands was a germy thing, and as I have aged, I find the occasional too ‘hard’ hand shake can hurt my arthritic hands! We can do the ’Live Long and Prosper non hand-shake, or we can perhaps bow, like the Japanese culture does? sds</p>suzette shouldershttp://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2552hand-shaking2009-10-23T14:26:59+00:002009-10-23T14:26:59+00:00<p>At the Abbey, someone said that the origin of hand-shaking is from the “Old West”—you shook hands to show the other person, and for them to show you, that neither of you had a gun in your hand as you approached and met them!</p>sister_sledgehttp://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2551Great idea!2009-10-23T13:48:28+00:002009-10-23T13:48:28+00:00<p>Wahoo! What a GREAT idea! And we DO all want to "live long and prosper’! Kudos to the clever mind that thought this up! ss</p>suzette Shouldershttp://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2550Re: More alternatives2009-10-23T12:15:47+00:002009-10-23T12:15:47+00:00<p>I’m not sure those take into account the target cultural milieu of science fiction convention :P</p>Felicityhttp://faerye.nethttp://faerye.net/post/shaking-hands-is-illogical#comment-2549More alternatives...2009-10-23T10:58:40+00:002009-10-23T10:58:40+00:00<p>—Dress up in full Mad-Men type attire, including white gloves! <br />
—Chest bump?</p>Jeannine Hall Gaileyhttp://www.webbish6.com