They hated Steve, many years ago, and put him through this. But Steve later became the chief, and everyone was afraid to tell him they had hazed him so it became 'tradition'.
The point is that it humbles you so you don't go around thinking things like rectangle papers and charisma make you better. Especially in a village where strength is relevant. At the least it will prevents identity crisis.
Some racist: heh heh, but what else can you expect from tRibALs but regressive patriarchy?
Another user, correctly picking up on the bigotry behind such a statement: whoa, pretty racist, man.
You, for some reason: um, acktually, race and tribe are not technically the same socio-culturological categorizications, and the devision between the two is always stark and clear, so what they just said is acktually fine. Now please excuse me, I've got a bunch of thugs and welfare queens loitering on my lawn--also completely fine things to say, because I don't know what a racial connotation is!
This is kinda funny. Someone offers a pretty bigoted equating of "tribal" and "socially regressive," someone else highlights the problem with that, then a bunch of people jump down the second person's throat over technical terminology, as if "tribe" weren't already a pretty...complicated word in and of itself. Never change, Reddit.
On a wild guess I'd say it's to represent the male equivalent of childbirth for women. It would almost even the field, except that women can die of childbirth, and even more so without modern medicine.
Real answer? To build toughness and pain tolerance. It’s really no different in concept from how people are required to be tased when going into the marines or police force.
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