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1. "It's perfectly messed up that wellness security companies person much accidental than your doc connected however a diligent is treated. Most Americans tin hardly spend to spell to the doctor, and if the security doesn't screen it, past it doesn't happen."
2. "The anticipation that radical tin get IUDs inserted without legit symptom meds."
"I retrieve erstwhile I got it, I was crying successful pain, and the caregiver was giving maine an cognition astir it and said it wasn't 'that bad.' I was going to locomotion location due to the fact that it wasn't excessively acold away, but I virtually had to get an Uber due to the fact that I was successful excessively overmuch symptom to move. Glad much radical are speaking up "about this."
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3. "Drinking culture. Drinking intoxicant is truthful normalized that radical deliberation thing atrocious happened oregon thing is incorrect with you if you don't drink."
4. "The information that there's luncheon indebtedness successful schools. In the US, respective states are turning down nationalist escaped luncheon assistance for a big of ridiculous reasons, specified arsenic the content that a escaped luncheon volition 'spoil' kids. For a batch of kids, schoolhouse meal and luncheon are the lone nutrient they get."
5. "The anticipation that you should automatically cognize things that weren't taught to you increasing up. Taxes, laws, basal aesculapian care, and adjacent from what cleaning chemicals you tin premix to however agelong nutrient lasts successful the fridge."
"Instead, nationalist acquisition is geared towards making definite a student's mindset is acceptable to beryllium another cog successful the economical machine."
6. "That everyone should look similar a societal media filter. It feels similar each app has filters connected it present — immoderate of them automatic — to creaseless retired your skin, adjacent its color, marque your eyes bigger, adhd makeup, marque you look skinnier, oregon marque you immoderate it is you aren't capable of already to beryllium perfect."
"I deliberation it's making america expect radical to beryllium fundamentally CGI versions of people alternatively of existent people."
7. "Tipping culture. You arsenic an leader should wage your worker enough, balancing the outgo of your work with their salary."
"I tipped 18% astatine a edifice edifice the different day. I conjecture I should person work the receipt much cautiously due to the fact that aft I left, I realized a 15% extremity was already applied. It was charged to my country already, truthful the waiter was lasting determination waiting for maine to springiness different extremity erstwhile a extremity was already applied."
8. "Healthcare being tied to employment. I don't privation to beryllium trapped successful a occupation I hatred conscionable truthful I tin get my prescriptions. I person capable savings and a debased outgo of living, truthful I could wholly bash a part-time job, but no...40 hours for insurance."
9. "As for nine successful America, the anticipation for the parent to instrumentality to enactment rapidly and person her assemblage 'bounce back' ASAP."
"My parent was astatine the infirmary delivering my sister erstwhile her brag called and wanted her to screen a displacement — helium knew my ma was successful labor. Two days aft my sister was born, my ma was backmost waiting tables."
10. "Now with smartphones, assuming that radical are disposable and obligated to respond to you. I sometimes privation we lived successful the older times erstwhile you had to telephone someone’s location landline fig and permission a message, and past hold for them to respond astatine their earliest convenience."
"Now it’s, 'I texted you, you didn’t respond. Are we inactive friends, are you huffy astatine me?' Like no, I simply conscionable didn’t consciousness similar responding. I’m a engaged adult, and conscionable due to the fact that there’s a texting diagnostic connected my telephone doesn’t mean I’m ever consenting to prosecute successful conversation."
11. "The anticipation of being perpetually employed. If you're not producing thing past you're worthless."
"The thought that a person's worthy is tied to their job and economical enactment alternatively than their character."
12. "The commodification of your hobbies. They're astir however you walk your leisure time, not different gross stream."
13. "The quest for youthfulness. Growing older is simply a privilege, and I don't recognize the hatred connected wrinkles, grey hair, etc. There utilized to beryllium a saying, 'grow aged gracefully,' which implies accepting the changes and making the astir retired of it."
14. "That women person to beryllium strong, but not excessively much, person to person a occupation and intelligence background, but person to beryllium acceptable to bash the location chores connected their ain if their partner's occupation is much 'important' than theirs. They person to attraction astir their appearance, but not excessively much, oregon they volition beryllium considered arsenic attraction seekers. They person to beryllium capable to grin and speech successful public, but not excessively much."
"Basically, if you are attractive, radical volition thin to deliberation you are 'only' charismatic and not truthful smart, and adjacent that you got a occupation due to the fact that you are beauteous — but if you are considered little attractive, you whitethorn beryllium categorized arsenic idiosyncratic whose quality and sensibility are not enough. Double standards betwixt men and women are a existent thing."
15. "The mendacious thought that men cannot beryllium abused, oregon men cannot consciousness emotion. Men are expected to slap connected immoderate bootstraps or, however, it's called and instrumentality it 'like a man.' It's disgusting."
16. "The stigmatization of intelligence health: Nothing says 'progressive society' similar inactive treating intelligence wellness issues arsenic a taboo oregon a motion of weakness. It's astir awesome however persistent this modular is, considering the leaps and bounds made successful knowing the quality brain."
"It's similar nine collectively decided that intelligence wellness tin beryllium swept nether the rug with past century's dust."
17. "Beauty standards (for each genders). Human bodies should not beryllium treated oregon seen arsenic a trend, successful my opinion."
18. "The 40-hour enactment week."
"The information that you enactment 9-to-5 for astir each your life. It's similar you person been calved to work, wage taxes, and consume."
19. "That, successful the US, we are expected to determination retired of our parents' location the time we crook 18. With the existent outgo of surviving and entry-level wages, this conscionable isn't imaginable for astir people."
20. "That being a divorced pistillate implicit 35 means I clasp perfectly nary worth and americium fundamentally doomed to dice alone. It doesn't substance that I was a loving, devoted woman for 14 years oregon that helium tried to termination maine implicit his drinking, and that's wherefore we're divorced. I'm conscionable 'old' and 'used up.'"
"'I couldn't perchance usage my education, vocation and everything I've secured with those to dainty the antheral who shows maine kindness and makes maine consciousness harmless similar a king..."
21. "Honestly? The thought that individuals person to beryllium their ain community. That's wherefore truthful galore radical are suffering. We're a societal species, we're expected to assistance each other, but instead, we're each conscionable struggling on due to the fact that nine says it's disgraceful to 'be a load upon others.'"
"Ridiculous. We request much empathy and little ego. More connection, little loneliness."
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