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!

Giving children medication that will sterilise them under the guise of curing a mental health issue. Beggars belief.

Page 3 in The Sun.

Hopefully, in the not-too-distant future, we will be as horrified at 'comedians' talking to you Frankie Boyle and Jimmy Carr making 'jokes' at the expense of disabled children, as we are by Bernard Manning and his ilk.

Antisemitism will be viewed with the same contempt as racism and my children will be able to safely own their heritage in the UK in public. They are tiny right now, and I pray this happens whilst I am able to witness it so that DH and I can 'leave' them knowing that they and our grandchildren will be safe.🙏

Everyone having to pretend that a man becomes a woman if he puts on pink lipstick and uses the ladies loo

In the future I think we might be judged for being so helicoptery with our kids. Monitoring their every move, smoothing away the slightest difficulty, prizes for everyone, parents attending uni open days.

What made you think I was mocking, or even referring to, her accent?!

I’ll add another to my list: Faux outrage when having completely misunderstood something. A MN special 🤣

Me too, a very deprived ex-mining village. A lot describe it as rough.

I think a lot of people on here are shocked at the no-license thing because they’ve clearly never experienced northern council estate living 😂

Came on to say the same. Interestingly I complained to the BBC the used almost exactly the same language they used against complaints in 1967 when there were complaints about the black and white mistral show. Wonder how long before it will be viewed in the same way

Surprised in Jo Frost’s years of nannying she didn’t recognise a neurodiverse child when she saw one

Yes

And?

Yes. And this to dance schools too. Shocking

You said JF could not 'speak properly' that is rude and ignorant. What impact did/does that have on her professional capabilities? She's not an elecution teacher.

This.

Yes, I give it 10 years before there is a massive outbreak of legal action against the people who push this. Hopefully certain charities have large coffers and brilliant insurance

Another: Heat magazine not that long ago giving free stickers with the magazine that openly mocked a disabled child

I remember seeing road signs that said "Cripples Crossing"

When I trained as a nurse, ‘83-‘87, there were smoking day rooms on every hospital ward. Patients weren’t allowed to smoke in bed, because of the piped oxygen (we didn’t want them blowing the place up), but if they could stagger - or be pushed - to the day room, they could smoke to their hearts’ content. Even if they were in hospital with lung cancer or circulatory problems related to smoking.

I can remember a client calling the office in the late 1990s to complain about girls on the audit team wearing trousers. We were told we had to wear skirts the following week.

Im from Cornwall but I’m sure it’s very much the same! Maybe be we need a tv show where mumsnetters are sent to live on council estates 🤣

To be fair there has been huge huge changes and ways that neurodiversity is recognised and diagnosed since Jo Frost was first on tv. I was nursery nursing back then and I wouldn’t have spotted children as easily as I would now. It was very rare to have children in mainstream with very obvious learning difficulties/disabilities. Now with 20 years under my belt and many courses and awareness training it’s much more obvious when children/young people are struggling or are neurodivergent. Children can be diagnosed as young as 2/3 now. That rarely happened even ten years ago.

Controlled crying, ‘cry it out’ (what is ‘it’?)

That was a sly dig at Super Nanny for pointing out she's childless.

Leaded petrol wasn't banned until 2000. There are still particles of it in the air in London! It was known at the time it was developed how bad it was for human health. www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-57564953.amp

The same guy that invented leaded petrol also invented CFCs 🤦‍♀️

Young teenage girls magazines describing how to give a really great blow job. Condoms, yes. Pressure to do well at giving BJs, no.

Scottish MP being told to repeat his comments 'in English' in the Commons. He was speaking English.

The way Catholic people living in Northern Ireland were treated as a second class nation. Couldn't trust the police force, had to cower at multiple army checkpoints just to go about their daily lives.

Many aspects of the shameless baiting on Love Island.

Abortion for DS or cleft palate being legal to full term when it is not legal for babies without these differences.

The utterly disgusting way the gutter press used to write about gay celebrities in general, and George Michaels in particular. Writing about people as if they should be ashamed, outing people. I can remember in my mid teens being outraged about the way he was treat.

Certain papers haven’t improved a great deal.