What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

I’m so sorry to hear this. I have had horrific insomnia since I was a teenager, I know it’s not nice. I hope you get support and get him into a clinic that can help you both.

Social media influencers. How is this even a job?

Transphobia is very different to LGB.
Lesbians were recently very active in the supreme Court challenge. They were being forced to allow TW into lesbian only events and dating clubs. I have a BFF who is a lesbian.she doesn't like penises. But people lump LGBT together because gay groups (stonewall) needed another drum to bang and make money from.
Trans people don't need discrimination but it is not a cop out for men in dresses who wish women harm. Most trans people go about their business.
Transphobia and homophobia are not the same.

'we add a discretionary 12.5% to your bill'

How is this accepted as acceptable?? The price on the menu is the price. Don't be adding more on at the end without my permission.

Cocaine.

The cheese and onion on a stick is yummy, though, especially when presented sticking out of a halved melon.

Scraping jury trials. Fecking madness

Lots of things if you play a little game of defamiliarisation.

Going to bed...we suddenly stand up, walk up a wooden ladder thing, take off our clothes and lie down flat with a cover over us, and turn out the lights and stay there for 7+ hours.

Or if you take a cynical view of socialising (which I don't really, but...) we go to huge efforts and spend money we can't afford to invite people we don't even always like round for a party. Then when it's over we spend ages bitching and moaning about them.

I'm sorry, is this what feminism looks like to you? You do know that for some women menstruation is exactly like a monthly attack of debilitating illness and massive pain, right? And that many women emerge from pregnancy and childbirth with injuries that leave them physically and mentally profoundly changed?

I agree. PMDD is a nightmare. It destroys life for two and a half weeks out of four and sets you up for a lifetime of mental illness., often unrecognised. Hellish.

I’m also onboard with this 100%.

Theres plenty of research that tells us it’s harmful to the developing brain.
Denmark actually took steps recently based on the reams and teams of research on the subject, to remove any books that encourage sleep training from publication and their health service have also removed all references to it from all of their literature.

I hate that we are guinea pigs for the latest research that changes all the time.

I get where you are coming from @UnfashionableArtex

Another thing I've noticed now I'm an old person -

Safeguarding in schools has become red-hot - and as an ex-teacher, I'm not complaining about that. For example, teachers have to be incredibly careful what they say to children nowadays - many fairly innocuous words which would have been OK in the 70s/80s are now taboo, such as 'naughty'.

And then we release them into the real world which I think is more terrifyingly challenging than ever - it's as if we push them off a cliff at age 18. The world is so much more threatening now than it was when I was a youngster with AI, online dating, scams, identity politics, cyber bullying, social media pressures etc.

On MN you will get posters who are hyper protective of children but when an OP shows concern for what their 18 year-old is doing, they are told 'They're adults - it's none of your business! It's their life, their decision!'. So within the twinkling of an eye all that concern and parental care is supposed to be thrown out of the window. I find that bizarre.

I don't know what the answer is, but it just seems weird that childhood has become much more protected while the world is scarier than ever!

I have to say work as well.

Fuck working.

And giving birth, particularly for the first time, can be confusing, depressing, leave you with injuries that take months to recover from on no sleep and often snatched meals. I feel that there should be far more care for new and first time mothers rather than them being discharged from hospital and then just expected to get on with it. Any other major life changing medical procedure would be followed by months of rehabilitation, plenty of rest, good food and assistance. As it used to be in the old days, when mothers were confined to bed for weeks after giving birth. Now it's just 'it's a natural process, get on with it,' ignoring the fact that we used to have entire realms of female family members around to help. Now, if we're lucky, it's just the baby's father, who might be of varying usefulness.

AI.

Agree plus they always feel that someone else is to blame for their anger , its always you, their children, their boss who is at fault and their anger is justified.

And this goes back to some overlord owning the world and selling it to us in tiny portions. The trap of society.

People thinking they can change sex.

Actually all these things are so weird that cheese on a stick seems totally sensible now.

This.

Piggy backing off of this one to say: Tipping culture here in America 🤨

My British sensibilities get all offended every single time.
If the service is good? Of course I’ll happily leave a small, cash tip for the server.
If the service is just average, the server doing exactly what’s expected of them, why am I expected to pay 10 or 20% more than the menu price? 🤨
In my state, minimum wage for servers is $12.00 (just over £8) an hour. So instead of simply paying their employees a livable wage, complained rely on the generosity of the customer to make up the shortfall on their wages.
And tipping culture has spilled over into every single aspect of society here. Restaurants, I am a bit more accepting of it……but if I go get a drive-thru coffee, where I’ve ordered at a speaker, and paid $4 for an overpriced cup of milk with a bit coffee sloshed in and you spin an iPad at me asking how much % I’d like to leave as a tip? I’m hitting the 0% and spinning the iPad right back.

I'd happily live in a meadow somewhere with a log fire and my own land my dc and dp could farm. I could cook warming broths, keep the chickens fed and read and maybe even write.

Ahh.

I’d argue that the eating of the animals is actually perfectly normal from an anthropological perspective.
Humans have always done it. The entire natural world survives via predation.

But you’re absolutely right in the sense that the way we procure those animals for food in the modern age is really fucking bizarre.
It wasn’t all that long ago in our history where most people raised a few chickens and maybe a cow for food.