To wonder what opinions we have now that will be really unpopular in 40/50 years

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Not a TAAT but triggered by a thread about some elderly people having opinions that we find quite shocking and offensive now.

What opinions do you think we have that will have our grandchildren and great grandchildren gasping and pearl clutching? :)

Oh yes! The cash and coins one definitely. They'll all be using their fingerprints to pay or something...

Or...
we are back to trading our produce with no currency.
Or bitcoins.

In those TV prog's such as 'it was alright in the 80's' and so on, among the people they have offering views on our past, politically-incorrect horrors. There's a certain smugness about them. As if nothing like that could happen now and thank goodness we've all changed.

My DD predicts that the Meerkat adverts will be seen as offensive in the future.

I think reality TV shows will be balked at.

TRANS. The whole fucking trans trend.

The idea that we can't use 'woman' in a maternity setting in case it offends men, and the idea that men with functioning penises should be allowed free access to rape crisis centres if they say they feel like a woman.

All of that crap.

But everyone most definitely won't be vegan. That's ridiculous.

My DD predicts that the Meerkat adverts will be seen as offensive in the future.

Russian DP thinks they are hilarious - as a Russian called Sergei working in IT, he got a Sergei doll one year as part of his bday gifts, and was chuffed.

So I'm not sure about this one. Unless you mean that meerkats might be offended. Which they may well be.

I'm not either TBH, but it's interesting to consider it might be...one day!

Low fat/calorie controlled diets. They don't work, they just make people more hungry. Fat is not the enemy. Eating fat doesn't make you fat, it's all the other junk that is eaten alongside it. (I've just lost 10lbs on a high fat, low carb diet, and never felt better)

TRANS. The whole fucking trans trend.

The idea that we can't use 'woman' in a maternity setting in case it offends men, and the idea that men with functioning penises should be allowed free access to rape crisis centres if they say they feel like a woman.

All of that crap.

Exactly what I came on to say.

I think people will be more nationalistic, and will wonder why we allowed non-nationals to buy property, gain citizenship in huge numbers, etc.

I think there will be a move away from disposable fashion, to better made items which last longer.

well homophobia, racism, rape, animal welfare
people are more tolerant and more sympathetic

How did we let Angela Merkel destroy Europe. while we are all wearing burkas pretending to be muslim.

There will be increasing use of drones in workplaces, and people will wonder how previous generations managed without them.

The Trans thing will seem like a crazy inexplicable blip.

People will spend more and more time in virtual reality.

I really think that people claiming that climate change isn't real or a is big conspiracy by scientists will be a big one, looked at in the way that '4 out of 5 doctors smoke X brand cigarettes' adverts are now. I can just see a history teacher in 2075 bringing up the Daily Mail online comments on whatever medium they're using then.

Also not really a view but going to the moon and not having the capability to put people beyond near earth orbit nearly 70 years later will look odd.

Some of these are just fanciful!

Humans are omnivores, for one.

And women have had abortions since the dawn of time - always have, always will - regardless of whether the provision is legal or illegal.

Those with disabilities will be fully integrated into society and not viewed as objects of charity, all services and organisations which have a disability focus will be fully staffed by people with disability who will be paid and not volunteers.

Medicine will have made major leaps forward particularly in the field of mental health and neurology. Mental ill health will be viewed on par with physical health and there will be no stigma and more effective treatments and equally funded services. The explosion of knowledge on how the brain works will make our current knowledge look like the dark ages of medicine

People will have a better work life balance and the current 60 hour weeks masquerading as 35 hour working weeks will be seen as slavery. Commuting to work for hours a day will end as people rediscover city centres as family friendly places to live or they work from home remotely.

I am an optimist!

Oh and over use of antibiotics, as in 40 years none of them will work any more (fact, published in the Lancet), and they'll wonder why we abused them like we did.

That education is delivered in classrooms and lecture halls and is not completely personalised
That female beauty and sexuality is so highly prized and promoted
That we had so very many children
That some people objected to wind farms
That flying to the other size of the world took a whole day, and people still did it
That houses cost ten times as much as a salary
That clothes made of artificial fibres were allowed, and were cheap
That households had to have two full time working adults, not to afford food, just to afford the house
That we took organised religion seriously, it was connected to state and education and politics
That working full time was seen as the norm, or desirable: and leisure, culture, volunteering, exercise etc were seen as 'extras'
That we fed sugar to children

I am enjoying this thread, and hope to live to 92 to see who was right

I know Norks! I'll have to print it out when it's finished :)

That a father or mother can walk away from their children and pay nothing towards them.

That schools would want ill children in schools just to tick a box.

That little girls were treated differently by society because they don't have a penis.

That people could just move from country to country and expect free education for their children and free healthcare.

"Those with disabilities will be fully integrated into society and not viewed as objects of charity, all services and organisations which have a disability focus will be fully staffed by people with disability who will be paid and not volunteers." I think, controversially, that disability will, where possible, have been eliminated. Pre-natal testing will be compulsory and the numbers of disabilities which can be tested for will have increased to the degree that any disability will be detectable and thus the trend of terminating for disability (currently 94% for downs, for instance) will follow, and as such the numbers of disabled children will rapidly decrease. Added to that, pre-genetic diagnosis will exist for all genetic conditions and therefore any parent will be able to assure that they do not have a disabled child. Disability-related benefits will no longer exist and therefore the pressure will be on parents to terminate rather than to have a child with disabilities. Based on our current attitude towards disability this is only going one way, IMO.

I also think however that mass vaccination will no longer exist. We will of course vaccinate against the most horrific diseases, but the idea of giving a child ten different viruses before its second birthday will be considered abhorrent. . Incidentally, there was a ruling yesterday relating to vaccine damage from the swine flu vaccine. I think the more vaccines which are pushed into society, the more this will become an issue and the trend will go back the other way.

A cure will be found for HIV

I hope that medicine will have moved on, so that people will look back with horror that we treated cancer by poisoning, burning and hacking- much the way we look today at mercury treatment for syphilis, or lobotomies for poor mental health.

disability will not decrease. in fact it will get worse due to cuts in the NHS
you can't test for brain damage caused by bad care.
but in the future you won't see i as disabled people will be placed in "communities" and be hidden