This looks like either harsh sarcasm or trolling, and the “piece” by that title does not appear to exist; furthermore, my understanding is that “redpill ideology” has little to say on the subject of hugs in particular.
And the point about consent has been addressed elsewhere in the comments:
(A norm in which Alexis explicitly checks in because they know Bryce is acclimating makes a lot of sense, but a general norm in which you’re expected to secure verbal consent for casual touch is actually super bad in ways that I’ve spelled out a bunch of other times and probably won’t rehash here. Its badness unfortunately hasn’t stopped (especially left-leaning parts of) our culture from driving pretty hard in that direction, leading to our present epidemic of chronic undertouch (and downstream effects like homophobia and increased emotional labor within romantic relationships and teenage depression, etc etc etc.))
This looks like either harsh sarcasm or trolling, and the “piece” by that title does not appear to exist; furthermore, my understanding is that “redpill ideology” has little to say on the subject of hugs in particular.
And the point about consent has been addressed elsewhere in the comments: