What’s the weirdest thing society accepts as normal?

[ForFunAquaTurtle]

Cheese on a stick

This.
Also, people who cheat while married. Get freaking divorced. It’s not hard or stigmatized, and cheating is so fucking cruel.

Yep. This

Parents being judge and jury with our teachers. I'm so over it. It's toxic and getting out of hand in this country.

However we came into being, that women would suffer so much - childbirth, periods, menopause. It is unfair.

Bikinis that show off you arse but it’s ok because you can see the teeny weeny triangle at the top of your arse so therefore it allowed.

leggings with the elastic that divides the arse in 2 - and also show your camel toe.

That people want to eat meat from a skewer that looks like a big elephant leg ( kebabs) I do eat meat btw , but I can’t eat kebabs from a takeaway.
How some foods go together well and some just don’t.
How different people are in personalities. How some can lead from the front and others can’t.
How hard it is just existing sometimes. I feel that gets worse as you age too.

Add factory farming, foie gras, veal, wearing fur, zoos, and aquariums to this list. Orcas at Seaworld. swimming with dolphins. etc etc There is so much cruelty.

For the old chestnut of tradition= acceptable in relation to eating animals, this is thought provoking:
www.instagram.com/reel/C92dAEDp5Uq/?utm_source=ig_web_copy_link&igsh=NHNxbTQzc3NyN3Ri

The amount of sugar we consume and how relentless the advertising is… it’s literally everywhere

How large all the portions are when eating out… including children’s. I think the children size is often a regular adult portion and the adult is just far too big for most people.

that we’re expected to (largely) sit still for 8 hours per day.

Who decided who owned it in the first place in order to sell it?

Completely agree, how is it that so many people believe what is basically a fairy story like Father Xmas or the Tooth Fairy and live their lives by it, and that it causes so many wars and such hurt - I don’t see anything good about it at all although I slightly envy people who have the comfort of faith and can turn a blind eye to how ridiculous the whole concept is.

Donkeys and other similar animals being beasts of burden. Desperately sad.

Haha I agree with him except the infertility thing. Maybe I’m having an existential moment but honestly I feel like the fact we are here on this planet in this Universe is such a magical unique thing and then society comes and sucks it all out of us. I want to be a magical human again, and just be allowed to do everything g that makes us human, like art and music and not sat at a desk on Excel, it’s madness!

rant over

See also: crying! Not only does a weird noise come out, but water comes out of your eyes- WTF?

Women doing the vast majority of the domestic shitwork (shopping, cooking, cleaning, admin).

It's so normalized that even people who consider themselves feminists often don't see the full extent of it.

Keeping pets. I have pets and I love them but every so often I say to my husband: ‘it’s so weird that this dog lives in our house’.

I’m actually grateful for the ability to cry but yes, it is so very strange. How it can not affect such a delicate pair of organs is incredible.

I was talking to DH about this recently, I said who became the first landowner or first King, everyone was just a normal person and then William got ideas above his station and declared himself Royal?

That schools don’t allow secondary children to regulate their own temperatures in a heat wave, by forcing them to ask for permission to remove their blazer, and sometimes it’s denied.

Being horrible to people online

I love that your dog is probably thinking the same. 😁

Eh? Why? 🤔

😂 I love how there is essentially what was a wild animal in our house and we are happy just sleeping near it.

Oh shut up and stop reading something that's not there into what people say.

While we’re on the subject of bikinis/swimwear……

Why is is acceptable for me to lay on a beach in a two piece bikini, but it wouldn’t be ok for me to lay there in my bra and knickers? 🫠🫠😂🤷🏻‍♀️🤷🏻‍♀️
If it’s made of some sort of water resistant material then it’s ok.

Same with one piece swimsuits - fine to walk around the beach in it, but if I was wearing a bodysuit-style top and whipped my jeans off it would be met with shock 🤷🏻‍♀️😂