As a child of an interracial marriage, people still give me and my family strange looks. A hospital once locked me and my white mother in a room because they thought I was kidnapped. It is still weirdly taboo unfortunately -mixed 13 year old

When my dad left my mom in the 70s, she could not have her name alone on the house, nor a bank account nor credit cards, without her dad co-signing. Women still have few options for being financially independent by comparison. I can't f*****g believe we're not only still begging and fighting for equal wages, but are being dragged back to the dark ages instead. This is the world Conservatives want, after all.

Still a looong way to go, but it's heading in the right direction.

I went from an office job where I had to cover all my tattoos and my boss tried to publicly shame me fore getting another one (I say tried because I have no shame) to a blue collar job where the rest of the shop is emotionally invested as I design my sleeve.

Still happens today tho.

So true

Crying as a man

You could not ask someone to not smoke, esp if you were a kid. I now have severe asthma thanks to being stuck in closed spaces with smokers for my entire childhood. If you asked to move or roll down a window, you'd get in trouble.

Louisa johnson

Louisa johnson

Community Member • points

posts

comments

upvotes

FollowUnfollow

Premium

Premium user. Get details.

I love seeing bi racial families, it's a big FU to all these racist d@&ks. Plus mixed raced people are really very striking to look at, things like black skin with blue eyes, the model with the darkest skin in the world, there are so many beautiful people out there, see what happens when love has no barriers. Screw the racists, I was raised in a very racist and homophobic home. I was a child I did not understand why we did not like people with different colour skin, I'm now in my 30s and feel so guilty for believing that was the norm until my late teens. I still feel so bad for not being a better person and connecting the dots, like why is this persons skin colour an issue? I have other family huge homophobes, they have no place in my life or my kids.

I totally agree. I have a friend who sometimes call me, but has to cut me "because her boyfriend is calling". Very often I don't answer her calling me again that day, because I find myself being put down by it. It is different if I am the one to call her.

Although at my school, my skirt must be no higher than 2 inches above my knee.

And I fully support being you and expressing yourself. I think it's awesome that this is happening and becoming more acceptable to society. An article of clothing or accessory shouldn't be genderized.

Still isn't in many sectors where i live unfortunately

Pants are so much more practical & safe for females to wear to school.

Protest the hell outta it.

Actually I don't hate dresses. I just hate that I can't find one that fits my body type and looks cute.

I'm in Canada and Justin Trudeau is now my dealer. Yay!

Depression. Sexual abuse. Queer identities. Harassment. Bad parenting. Not wanting to have kids/marry. We literally could not even breathe hints that some of these things existed for most of our lives.

A related one would be HIV no longer being a death sentence. In the 80s-90s, when someone said they were positive, you knew you only had a year or two left with them, and it was going to be agony for them. Not anymore.

My now-husband was concerned when our first was born because we weren't married and he thought being a bastard was still a stigma. Not gonna lie, I laughed.

Even if I was religious l, I wouldn't be able to sit still at a place of worship. I get cold if I sit still for 2-5 minutes or more while awake. I have to use a blanket when I watch TV

Mental hospitals "back in the day" did FAR worse things than give you tinfoil to play with

The past was a harsh time. I really hope humans are becoming more civilized. I have seen some horrible pictures of when the change was happening.

* I think you probably mean "Being friends with an African American person, If you are not also African American". And I really hope this has changed. .... not sure if Indigenous Australians feel that it has.

I still get people pissed off when I don't answer my home phone. My mom will call my cellphone, text me and then try my home phone. If I don't answer, then I did a terrible, horrible thing. Then I get interrogated where I've been, why I didn't answer or reply to her texts. Like geezus. I miss not having all these communication avenues.

It's a giant, dirty bus, in the air. I'd wear a plastic bubble if I could.

YEAS

Just did this the other day, it was so awesome. She called me a b*tch in front of my coworkers this morning, but it was worth it. No one calls me a liar for having sleep problems and then gets mad at me for them later! Have fun with that "mom"

These days, literally nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I am a high functioning autistic so I'm not overly sensitive to noise or bright lights, but I still appreciate people understanding my DIFFERENCE! Not disability, not fault, not defect, DIFFERENCE!

I went back to my old primary school where, at the time I was a kid there, nobody even really knew what autism was. But now I saw several kids who had been issued with noise cancelling headphones and teachers carrying fidget toys ready to offer if anyone got upset. It was f*****g awesome. Quite frankly I wished I had a pair of those headphones, because being surrounded by all those people was making me disassociate pretty badly. I hate it when that happens.

Yeah we have a long way to go on this one in Africa. Autists such as myself are treated as "r-tards" and people become super patronising when they discover it.

Yes agreed, I'm F 51, ADHD, medicated, out and proud even with a tattoo on my arm for all to see. The only way to break stigma/taboo is to put it right out there. I love talking to people about neurodivergence, giving insight on ADHD.

Don't know where you live, but in my country, nothing has changed. Autistic people were othered and are othered all the time, after that comes hate and then they get put down constantly. If you're high functioning, you might get a pass.

This comment is hidden. Click here to view.

WE CURRENTLY HAVE A "NEURODIVERGENT" PERSON ACTING AS PRESIDENT :-(

In my own personal experience, this is true. I have bad anxiety and sometimes have panic attacks. My current employer and coworkers are so understanding about it, whereas in the past I've been penalized or even mocked for having anxiety.

I'm sorry cursive is no longer being taught. We are losing a great art.

Especially for women. I still have people policing my wording when I use profanity. My favorite thing is when some Conservative Christian unleashes all of their usual rhetoric about how I'm a murderer sinner brainwasher who's going to burn in hell for all eternity and LGBTQ+ is a sin, and when I respond with "f**k off," they then complain about my "bad language" and it's "unladylike" and "rude." Sorry, but I think telling a kid that they're going to burn in hell for being bi is far more offensive than a four-letter word, but I'm just so wacky and sinful that way. But really, f**k ALL the way off.

After all the s**t that mainstream religions has put humankind through, I can say I have no problems with pagans. They don't try to force their ideologies on anyone.

Please don't down vote. People get banned

Honestly, disrespect and rudeness have always existed. I feel like people romanticize the past in a way that's not realistic. Every single generation thinks the next generation coming up is so much worse than theirs. It's really not any different. I think the opposite - people speak up about rudeness and disrespect so much that they're labelled "snowflakes."

So, I read this prompt backward. This answer works if the question was worded opposite, "What is something that ISN'T socially acceptable now, that used to be okay?" I'd delete it, but I don't know how.

Brilliant, love this 😆

Yes, Black people were not the only target. Jews, Catholics, gays, and other groups that were not WASP