Things in RECENT times you can’t quite believe we’re seen as ‘ok’

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The Jeremy Kyle Show. Middle class man shouts at poor people who aren’t terribly bright, for not being perfect humans. So pleased it ended.

On X Factor and BGT when they used to show ‘funny’ auditions of people who believed they had talent but really didn’t so got laughed at. They then brought them back for the final to do a humiliating routine live so they could be laughed at more.

Supernanny. Childless woman who can barely speak properly pulls lemon faces, tells parents they’re shit and Instills sudden and sharp changes in the child’s home where actual camera are focussing on them when they’re distraught and upset

Sun sea and suspicious parents. Mum and dad spying on their adult children from a rooftop in Greece whilst said child gets off with a stranger. CREEPY!

To inject a little light heartedness into the thread, I bring you - middle class Jeremy Kyle

Only took 4 posts. FGS, mumsnet never fails.

Drink driving was seen as acceptable until the 90’s. And if you live rurally, beyond that. The village I lied in when DD was a baby (she’s 9 now), everyone would drive home pissed from the nearby pub (not us I hasten to add)

I've seen that in the last couple of years. But not in areas where members of the public go any more, that's true.

I was going to say this but also the S word, I was in secondary school in the 2000's and it was still very common to use these terms as insults then!

I did work experience in North Tyneside District Council in the very late 1980s. Because I was a woman they didn't think i was there for work experience in engineering (despite it saying so on all of the paperwork) but thought i was there to go in to the typing pool. I mustered up the courage after a few hours to explain what i was there for and they got all defensive. I was finally moved to the right department. when I got there I was given the job of going out for the head of engineering's afternoon cake.

In the building control department every officer had a booth literally covered in page 3 pictures. They all stared at me when I went in and it was hideous. They were being told to take them down but had until the end of the month to do so. No one was removing their posters until the last minute.

It didn't freak me out at the time. Now I cannot believe the misogyny. Mind you I'm not sure how much things have really changed - things just get more hidden now.

I still hear these all the time now.

i swear mumsnet is a parallel universe.

That's reassuring to know 😀(because cronyism in local government absolutely was a thing). Thanks.

Trans ideology
'Factory' farming.
Agree about x factor abusing the vulnerable

Vlogging families, where the kids' lives are documented for everyone to see.

Locking down the entire country, wrecking the economy, ruining our children’s education and playing havoc with people’s mental health and NHS waiting lists.

conspiracy time
sterilise children
reduce population

Rapists in women's prisons.

Transphobia
Dogs pooing in public areas
Fossil fuels
Fast fashion like boohoo, Shein, etc
Food banks as a sticking plaster
Vaping
Saying “Can I get” in restaurants

You've got that the wrong way round! What about cars mounting the pavement and parking on it ? Cars in cities shortening everyone's lives and filling the air with poisons. Taking up loads of space and running people over.
Electric bikes and cargo.bikes are the future

is there anything good about rural communities? Genuine question.

Making women prisoners share spaces in prison with born-male sex offenders. Especially in Scotland.

Boob jobs

This. Over and over...

it was banned in 1986 on US planes and 1988 on all planes

Neither does having an Essex accent. That was a terrible comment.

The peace and quiet - if that’s your thing
Lower crime rates
More neighbourly spirit and generosity - when they’re not drink driving 😂
Normally a little neighbourhood group that organises loads like fete days and scarecrow days.
Just don’t get a lift back from the pub with anyone 🤣

Clearly my brain has fallen out. What are the ‘s’ and ‘r’ words?

No one has commented on her accent 😂

"she didn’t have any qualifications in childcare either"

Paper qualifications aren't the only kind.