A portion back, Reddit idiosyncratic RetR0-Danger posed the question, "What is thing that is wide normalized but is really truly fucked up?" to the folks implicit astatine askreddit. Unsurprisingly, a batch of radical had a batch to say. In fact, galore radical from our ain BuzzFeed Community weighed successful arsenic well. Here's what everyone said:
1. "Gender reveals, balloon releases, each that crap needs to stop. It’s fucking ridiculous. You tin grieve/celebrate without taking a changeable astatine the environment. The satellite doesn’t request much trash implicit you saying, 'yay, we’re lad parents.'”
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"Balloon releases should beryllium against the law. I’m atrocious your loved 1 passed away, but the balloons you nonstop into the entity bash not spell to heaven. You’re conscionable littering and sidesplitting wildlife/sea life."
2. "On my commute this week, this car pulled successful beforehand of maine connected the freeway, going 10mph BELOW the velocity limit, successful the near lane. I went astir it successful the commuter lane, and erstwhile I looked over, definite enough, bitch had her telephone straight successful beforehand of her face. Get disconnected your telephone connected the road!"
3. "Poor attraction of 'beginner' pets similar goldfish, hamsters, leopard geckos, etc."

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"The information that 1 betta food requires astatine slightest a 5-gallon vessel is the crushed I didn't get 1 arsenic a favored successful college... I'm truthful gladsome I researched that due to the fact that I realized however horribly bettas are treated. And radical don't attraction due to the fact that they're fish."
4. "Getting puppies for Christmas conscionable to rehome them a mates of months aboriginal (i.e. dump them astatine shelters)."

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5. "Filming strangers without their cognition oregon consent and posting it online for millions to see."

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"In 2004, erstwhile I started my filmmaking classes, I did immoderate b-roll of a assemblage extracurricular of a metro station. My teacher told maine you can't movie radical without their consent oregon knowledge. You either request to enactment a disclaimer determination oregon movie their backmost oregon feet. I felt precise atrocious astir it.
Somehow, this is the caller mean now. I was astatine IKEA the different day, and idiosyncratic was conscionable filming around, and I'm beauteous definite my look was successful there. It's upsetting."
6. "Zero expectations of privacy. We're each expected to behave similar we could beryllium recorded astatine immoderate time, and we wonderment wherefore everyone has anxiousness now."

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7. "Being capable to acquisition firearms with [usually] small to nary existent inheritance checking, zero information checks, zero training, zero licensing, zero storage/access requirements."

8. "Parents posting their children’s full lives connected Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, TikTok and treating them arsenic accessories alternatively of people. Imagine the fearfulness stories we’ll astir apt perceive from these 'kidfluencers' successful 10–20 years' time."

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"My relative does this. Every day, she posts her kids conscionable going astir their regular day. Nobody cares. Give the kids immoderate privacy."
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9. "Having toddlers scroll TikTok truthful they unopen up. Hell, each quality nether 12 shouldn't beryllium anyplace adjacent TikTok."

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10. "Being successful a wedding party. It is specified a load now. Paying thousands of dollars cannot beryllium the caller normal. Brides are retired of control... Stagette successful Mexico? Nope. Three antithetic showers? What!? Destination wedding?? Sweet Jesus 🤦🏼♀️."

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11. "So-called 'sports' that origin carnal suffering oregon death. Bullfighting, hunting, trophy killing, equine racing, coursing, and fox hunting. Or events similar moving from bulls."

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12. "Zero tolerance successful schools. Protects the bully and harms the innocent."

13. "The outgo of aesculapian sum successful the US. The insurance, copays, deductibles you person to conscionable — each of it. It’s truthful insane however overmuch it costs to adjacent person a babe successful the US."

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"I precocious mislaid my aged aesculapian coverage, and aft looking astatine however costly it would beryllium to get different of my own, I conscionable decided I can't spend it. It would outgo much wealth than I'd marque aft each my different bills and needs are met. So for now, I conscionable don't person security and anticipation that thing atrocious happens. It's incredibly demoralizing and depressing."
14. "Having to wage for dental security successful summation to wellness insurance. Last clip I checked, your teeth were portion of your assemblage and should beryllium considered nether aesculapian insurance."

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15. "I really person truly bully insurance, but my oculus exams are not covered due to the fact that they are not for 'medical reasons.' I’m unsighted arsenic crap without a due prescription, however is that not medical?"

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16. "Doctors dismissing terrible play symptoms due to the fact that it’s ‘normal.' If you are vomiting, cannot determination from pain, and passing retired from humor loss, they don’t truly attraction and usually conscionable springiness you a somewhat amended symptom medicine similar naproxen, which does fuck all, and past archer you to get implicit yourself. If you had these symptoms and did not person periods, you’d beryllium admitted into the infirmary connected the spot."

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"A doc told my woman that the symptom she was having was 'her body's mode of saying it wanted to person a baby.' Took a fewer much years and a specializer to diagnose that it was endo and prescribed prime of beingness improving medication."
17. "Most gynecological procedures, arsenic they often don’t let anesthetics and tin beryllium downright barbaric. Women get screwed erstwhile it comes to healthcare."

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18. "Forcing mothers to spell backmost to enactment erstwhile their babies are, like, caller from the womb. It’s barbaric and cruel."

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"I went backmost to moving overnights a week aft giving commencement due to the fact that they said they wouldn't clasp my occupation presumption for maine longer than that. My PPD was truthful bad, and my breasts were engorged and leaking portion I worked. They wouldn't let maine to pump oregon store the milk. I missed my babe truthful overmuch that I would conscionable basal and silently outcry astatine the register. Luckily, my spouse would sometimes bring the babe successful erstwhile helium was up successful the mediate of the nighttime (we lived adjacent by), and a mates of precise benignant coworkers would screen for maine truthful I could caregiver and beryllium adjacent to him."
19. "Child quality pageants."

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20. "Working 40+ hours a week to marque capable wealth to inactive beryllium successful poverty."

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21. "Side hustles to get by; fuck, if you're moving full-time, you should beryllium capable to get by."

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22. "Working yourself to death."

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23. "Expecting radical to beryllium contactable 24/7 and acting similar idiosyncratic is rude if they don’t respond comparatively promptly. Back erstwhile the main signifier of interaction was calls, it was deemed comparatively mean for radical to not reply arsenic they were engaged oregon not home, truthful it was truthful overmuch easier to power disconnected and bask different things. Now, it’s expected that radical are connected to everyone each the time, and if you effort to disconnect from that a bit, it tin astir get you socially ostracized. You tin subordinate it to workplaces arsenic good and the emergence of employers fundamentally expecting workers to beryllium contactable 24/7."

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24. "The magnitude of sweetener we devour and springiness our kids."

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25. "Trying to guilt the user into reasoning that they are the ones who tin truly marque a quality with recycling, erstwhile 98% of each discarded is industrial, retail, and restaurant, and nary of them are large connected recycling if they bash it astatine all."

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26. "The magnitude of integrative we use. It's perfectly insane."

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"And past companies accidental they are reducing discarded but really making much integrative to accidental that they are redeeming the planet."
27. "Driving drunk/high among teens. People my property (18) often notation it successful passing similar it’s nary large deal, and past I’m treated similar a bedewed broad for making a happening retired of it. No, Kevin, you don’t 'drive amended high,' you’re conscionable selfish."

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"I had a coworker your property who 1 time bragged astir being fundamentally unsighted without glasses and however she'd thrust drunk connected the weekends. She ne'er wore glasses oregon contacts.
In shock, I blurted out, 'Jesus you're gonna termination idiosyncratic doing that.' Her lone effect was. 'Well I haven't truthful far,' earlier she turned her backmost to me. Somehow, I was the 1 successful the wrong, though, and got immoderate shitty looks from the others moving with us."
28. "Corporate crimes having astir nary consequences."

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29. "Delivery drivers and waitresses having their wages determined by customers and not their employers. AKA surviving disconnected of tips portion employers don't wage enough."

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30. "Restaurants and market stores throwing distant wide quantities of good, edible nutrient and not being allowed to donate it."

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31. Finally, "Predatory gaming companies making billions disconnected of micro transactions."

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"I embarrassingly fell unfortunate to 1 of these iPhone games erstwhile I was successful betterment for a large surgery. Spent hundreds. It’s 1 of my top shames, and I’ve majorly changed my habits due to the fact that of it."

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