What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

Religion

Changing name on marriage

High heels

Cosmetic surgery and injectables

Boxing

‘Plastic’ meat wrapped in plastic and sold in supermarkets.

The whole food distribution sector and the total separation of most of us from any capability to produce food and useful tools.

Large numbers of males wandering around with nothing to actually do or live for. The relative productivity and endless optimistic attempts to change men from young women who gain no benefit for being much better people. These may be linked to the above.

Me too.

My DH says this all the time 😂

”Put something in the water to stop further reproduction, turn AI on and give it full autonomy. Everyone gets a universal income and once the last of us die off? AI can have it all” 🫣🫣🫣😂😂

100% agree with this 👌

Me too. I mean I get that some people think differently, but I just think its weird.

Fatal car crashes-completely normal hearing of fatalities.
Screen time/tech for children. It is detrimental to their development.
People not saving for retirement- no pension, no savings but purely living for now.
Consumerism. You don’t need more stuff!

Henry Ford! In the hope that more leisure time would mean workers would buy more of his cars. Or something like that

Being told that we have to save the planet by recycling only for Amazon (the world’s most customer centric company) to send me a tiny paring knife wrapped in loads of paper, in a box within a bigger box. This is just one example.

zoos, aquariums etc.

bizarre that at some stage a human thought ‘you know what, I’m keeping that animal locked away in a space much too small and different from it’s actual habitat and I’ll charge people for the pleasure of coming to look at it’

aware that as I sit here with my dog, that I am a big old hypocrite.

Also, the 9-3 school day still being based around the idea that most families lived off the land, running farms etc so the children needed to be home to help with the work while there was still daylight.
We’ve stuck with that model even though the vast majority of parents work 9-5 office hours now.

Alcohol at shops on motorway services

The attempt to get us to believe that trans identified men are actually women. Wtf

People not saving for retirement- no pension, no savings but purely living for now.

Linked to that, the growth of inequality and the detachment of house prices from wages 20-25 years ago, and the gaslighting and shit that forced a ‘rentier’ economy upon all of us unlucky enough to be born into poor families and stupid enough to try to work our way out.

I think the poster is saying that being pregnant, giving birth and rearing children are social functions of value and that this should be socially recognised. I don't think that's the same as saying that women should be kept at home and not allowed to work.

I suspect it’s a stick

with cheese on it

👍

I also think its pretty weird that so many people don't plan parenthood as a couple. I mean 18 years of parenthood for the 2 parents. I thought the whole point of the 60's sex revolution was that it could not happen by accident.

Exactly! I'd be like Pa Ingalls just growing wheat and cobbling things with tools.

For tools and moccasins I would trade with the indians.

Giving young children a mobile phone that lets them access the internet. I know there’s parental controls but most kids soon learn how to bypass them

Branded Water.

The convenience of ordering a huge range of goods online for next-day delivery and cooked food for delivery within an hour, with very little thought given to the miserable lives millions of our fellow human beings lead manufacturing, picking, packing, transporting, and delivering said goods.

That men can create children but then have zero interest, financial or otherwise, in them. That women are vilified as single mothers and society makes up for the lack of funds that children’s fathers fail to provide (at least in part). Mandate 50/50 financial and everyday responsibility for both biological parents and watch women soar!

Also, that the other 50% paid tax.

Having a 'boss' or 'manager' at work. Not different than a handler of a dog or another animal. It's mind-blowing to me.

Agree!!!! The animals all look so unhappy and bored. So cruel 😢