What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

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Cheese on a stick

You've had a child and are mothering it. You aren't suffering from a debilitating, life threatening illness.

The Babylonians got it right, that's why. A 7 day week fits into the solar calendar fairly well e.g. 52x7=364 days, which only means that the new year begins on a different day by +1 than previous year (and all dates move forward 1 day also) except in a Leap Year, when we accommodate the .5 of a day that we miss off each year - if we did not at the end of a century the seasons would be out of kilter with the months e.g. Most of May would be 'in' June.
The monarchy suits us well and gives continuity. Doesn't cost much - only the security bill which we wouldn't save on as a president and his/her family would also need protection. The Crown Estate provides the running costs and this estate belongs to the sovereign (not the monarch), and 75% of it is used as part of the income of the state (the 25% being the sovereign grant.

I think people that think you can magically become the opposite sex should have their heads read.

Deodorant and perfume, why not just stink 🤷🏼‍♂️

Why is that such a stretch for you to wrap your head around?

I don't know, some kids really are hard work.

No, but almost all women do it, it has to be done and there is no accommodation for it in economic life. Men do not have to worry about childcare etc because they have a wife. The wife who goes out to work does the infamous double shift. Time we stopped doing it. Men's work/life should have to accommodate DC as much as women's.

Ear piercing, no matter the age

WaryCrow, and who decided they owned it in order to sell it.

Probably the most biological and natural thing on this thread, unfortunately. Other mammals eat other mammals. As do we!

Eating animals.

Life is based on predation at every level. It’s gross and I cannot believe a loving god created it this way,

That random strangers' pet cats are allowed to wander through my garden and poo in it.

Clapping. Honestly - it gives me a weird culty vibe sitting in a room with people solemnly hitting their hands together whilst otherwise sitting in total silence.

That Wifi isn't magic. It must be - there is no other explanation.

You’re right! Clapping is very weird! I can never unthink this now.

Religion full stop. It made some sort of sense to believe in a deity before the scientific and medical discoveries of more recent times and life would be so hard, brutish and short that probably only the thought of getting your reward in heaven would make life worth living.

Also that there are 12 months of all different lengths when it would work almost perfectly to have 13 months of 4 months.

When we like something someone has done,we collectively bang our hands together to make a loud noise.

When we see someone we like,we either press our bodies against theirs,get their cheek slightly wet with our mouths or wobble their appendages that we both use to eat and wipe our arses with 😅

Sleep.

Wearing special clothes to basically black out every single night for hours.

And that many people believe that the ~ Church of England is the true church when it is widely known that Henry VIII just made it up on a whimm so he could get his leg over with Boleyn.

Good thread OP.

That bay leaves add any taste to food.

War. Killing innocent civilians.

Bog standard childbirth can take up to a year to recover from. Add in complications and for many full recovery is not possible.

Pregnancy, whilst not an illness, is debilitating for loads of women - the sickness, the whole carrying a growing baby 24/7 and the bodily and hormonal strain that causes. Then the birth. Yikes the birth.

I don’t understand why so many go out of their way to dismiss and minimise the toll that pregnancy and birth takes on a woman, and that’s even before you start parenting, the early stressful newborn days, the sleepless nights, and often dealing with it alone, even when they’re in a relationship.

Then when you work it’s still mothers who bear the brunt of sick days, parenting duties etc. I honestly think your unfortunately popular take on it is a sanitised, men’s view of parenting. Designed to be yet another stick to beat women with.