What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Wtf is cheese on a stick?

Ha yes! With pineapple or a tiny pickled onion!

Cheese and pineapple - who on earth made that up!

Donner meat in a box. Or at all.

I love that so much 🤣

That women go through menstruation every month and give birth and breastfeed and yet we're just basically supposed to get on with full time work and everything else.

Work

🙄

We wanted to. We fought for the right to do this and to be paid the same as men. It took a while.

You really think women should be kept at home and not allowed to work?

This, particularly childbirth.

You give birth, quite often a lengthy and bloody process that leaves you feeling as though you've been run over by a truck (or, in the case of cs, having major abdominal surgery) - and then someone hands you this totally dependant creature and says 'well done, here, now go and get no sleep for the next five years. Best of luck with your recovery!'

That's how it felt to me anyway.

Yes! I'd rather grow wheat or something and eat it. Makes much more sense. I'd eat berries too so would be A-OK.

Inheritance

@Strobbery It's a con, didn't anyone tell you? There is no real choice for most of us. In the before times, we had to do all the child rearing, housekeeping stuff. We weren't able to work like men could. Now we HAVE to do employment outside of the home, and often most/all of the other stuff too. We aren't able to opt out if we wish to.

There is no "we". Women are not a homogeneous group when it comes to politics or most other things.

At no point did I say women should be kept at home and not allowed to work. As you well know. Go and jump down somebody else's throat.

that computers can do no wrong

Dancing

Religion in schools.

Botox and filler - after a few years of both women start to look the same, and their age is difficult to predict, the only thing you can definately tell is that they've had work. My SIL is 50 but if I didn't know her I'd guess anything between 40 and 60, with fillers and botox. She sees a 40 year old face when she looks in the mirror.

She has offered me the name of her 'guy', she thinks I could afford it if I cut down spending in other areas.

UPF
Drinking alcohol as a social pastime

Eating animals

I find it completely mind boggling that alcohol is accepted as normal by society.

If a new drug or food was invented tomorrow that made people act the same way they did whilst on alcohol it would be banned, not sold in supermarkets with your weekly food shop.

People being rude to you, expecting you to want them in your life despite how they treat you or expecting you to do things for them under the guise of 'but we are family' because a while ago a certain combination of people had sex which made you blood related and therefore they are owed a place in your life rather than it being earned.

Its pretty weird when you think about it.
Two people decided to shag and many years later you are expected to sit at Aunt Hildas birthday party despite the fact she's called you fat since you were six.

And there are people out there who call you selfish if you go 'no contact' with family, despite the fact im 'no contact' with several billion strangers - people ive not met who I dont have a relationship with. You wouldn't get judged for not wanting to speak to your ex, someone you actively chose to date and have in your life. Yet its selfish to not want contact with someone you are societally forced to interact with just because two people decided they fancied a shag??? Its so weird when you think about it.

Completely agree with this. Absolute con. When they said women could have it all they really meant they wanted us to DO it all. Its one of the reasons i decided not to have kids. Back in the 90s i was an outlier but im far from that now. More and more women are deciding to swerve parenthood

Religion in schools.
Religion.

Yoghurt. I mean I like it myself but... let's collect bovine breast milk, ferment it with bacteria and put it in little pots?

Tattoos.

Wearing makeup. Weird when you think about it.

Working 5 days a week - who decided that was “normal” full time hours? Why not 4, or 3.5? Was it plucked out of thin air?