I mean if he got ass-stapled he also probably would have experienced trauma also. I'm not trying to paint it as necessarily light hearted or okay... honestly, it's just too hard for me to say much of anything without knowing anything other than this video. I'm just saying that my first read filtering the video through my US lens is "yeah they're fucking around."

I have no idea without seeing the context or knowing a hell of a lot more than seeing just this video. For all I know you are right, and this is "boys will be boys" type of thing that should get dealt with as the crime that it is, alongside fraternity hazing and date rape. That's actually why I brought up a specific example that was, objectively, abusive and wrong, so that I could make the point that I wasn't trying to excuse it necessarily.

All I was saying is that, right or wrong, this looks super common to me in US factory-worker culture and I was trying to sort out how that related to it being treated as a unique and un-heard of crisis in the OP article, that's all.