People Are Calling Out Standards In Society That Are Considered "Normal," But Are So, So, Sooo Messed Up

1. "The information that affordable lodging is tied to the alleged 'American Dream.' Mark Twain erstwhile said, 'Buy land, they're not making it anymore.' As our country’s colonisation grows, determination is little and little onshore disposable for gathering homes. Thus, existent property prices person escalated successful the astir desirable locations, and astir young radical can’t spend to bargain a home."

—luckyship253

2. "The information that we can't person casual interests oregon hobbies. The contiguous and magnitude of accusation disposable means you tin nary longer conscionable similar thing oregon travel it casually. You've got to beryllium all-in, successful the weeds, and afloat knowledgeable; otherwise, you'd beryllium made to consciousness less."

—Anonymous, 41, New Jersey

3. "Everyone is expected to person a car and thrust successful astir parts of the USA. You get treated arsenic subhuman if you don't, and asked, however tin you live?"

—Anonymous, 40, USA

4. "The information that radical deliberation that everyone should person children. I ne'er had the tendency to person them, and neither did my husband. We are wholly contented being childless!"

—Anonymous, Anonymous

"The unit to person kids erstwhile a) not ready, b) don't privation them, and c) can't person them."

—Anonymous

5. "That it's a motion of spot oregon quality oregon togetherness oregon immoderate to enactment nonstop and lone instrumentality possibly a week's vacation. In Australia, New Zealand, and European countries, everyone gets a mandatory four-week abrogation from time one. As you physique up years of service, you go eligible for much abrogation days. The American work-life civilization is simply a implicit joke, yet everyone conscionable goes on with it and pats themselves connected the backmost for moving themselves to the bone. There's much to beingness than work, guys."

—Anonymous

6. "A societal modular that is really 'messed up' is that astir radical deliberation that teachers should beryllium liable for someone's atrocious performance; similar galore teachers effort their champion to teach, but immoderate students don't privation to learn."

—Anonymous, 23, Wisconsin

7. "The thought that older radical are 'disposable' erstwhile they deed a definite age. Society casts them aside, figuring, 'Heck, they are gonna dice successful a fewer years anyway.' Other countries respect older adults and dainty them with dignity. We dainty them similar trash."

—Anonymous

8. "Bottled water. Why are we paying for thing that virtually keeps america alive? It feels similar that (newer) Lorax movie; what's next, let's merchantability bottled cleanable air???? Absolutely not. Such a discarded of plastic, and specified an immoral mode to marque a fewer bucks — not a few, caput you, billions."

—Anonymous

9. "The mode that disabled and mediocre people's diets are policed, particularly if we're unemployed oregon incapable to enactment and/or connected authorities assistance. People connected SNAP and SSI/disability, successful particular, are expected lone to bargain and devour steadfast food, and to lone get the worst-quality mentation of immoderate we purchase. Store-brand everything, nary 'junk' nutrient ever, thing that tin beryllium perceived arsenic a luxury. Otherwise, we're treated similar we're taking vantage of the strategy and lying astir our needs."

—Anonymous, 35, Maryland

10. "That kids contiguous should spell to college, wage tens of thousands of dollars, beryllium successful indebtedness for decades, affecting each fiscal decisions successful their big lives, and not beryllium assured of receiving a good-paying occupation with a bachelor's oregon master's degree. "

—Anonymous, 54, Midwest

11. "Perfect attendance awards. It's virtually the astir absurd happening I person ever heard and lone results successful germs spreading erstwhile kids travel to schoolhouse sick and a procreation of adults who person been conditioned to worker connected alternatively of practicing self-care."

—Anonymous

12. "That if you're not joined and/or don't person children, past you don't person a family. And/or that you don't person a beingness and should enactment the weekends and holidays truthful the others astatine enactment tin walk clip with their families."

—Anonymous

13. "The information that schoolhouse counselors tin person caseloads of 250–600 oregon much students successful nationalist schools. This is accompanied by the anticipation that a schoolhouse counsellor tin and volition respond to and conscionable the needs of students, arsenic good arsenic the concerns of parents, teachers, administrators, and enactment staff. Absolutely absurd and wrong! Caseloads request to beryllium importantly reduced to genuinely conscionable students' needs, conscionable arsenic teachers person schoolroom caps. Mental wellness is inactive not a priority, inactive stigmatized, and this societal modular is 'messed up' — demonstrated by these caseload numbers and unrealistic enactment expectations. I'm a precocious retired (and recovering) with astir 40 years of schoolhouse counsellor service."

—Anonymous, 63, New York

14. "That the parents of the bride person to wage for the wedding. I judge that if a mates can't spend to wage for their ain wedding, past they shouldn't marque it a large event."

—Anonymous

15. "Returning a kid from CPS, backmost to their keepers/abusers. Be it from neglect, psychological, oregon immoderate benignant of abuse, there's lifelong harm that has already been imposed connected that child. So, the remainder of their beingness is simply a crap shoot, if they tin lend successfully to society? Or, volition they extremity up arsenic unsociable and acquisition a beingness of problems? They person already experienced a life-altering lawsuit by the precise persons that are expected to support them."

"They are returned to the abusers. Then, due to the fact that thing is truly different, the abuser is inactive there. They suffer each consciousness of safety, trust, and confidence. Then they whitethorn spell connected to maltreatment others. The likelihood astatine crap shoots are not that large for those who person been abused. Why is this successful America?"

—Anonymou

16. "The thought that it's good to station comments judging radical erstwhile you don't cognize the person/people oregon the afloat story."

—Anonymous

17. "The 'app-ification' of regular life. If you privation to relation astatine all, you request to download a 100 proprietary apps. Digital coupons. Concert tickets. Ordering nutrient to go. Paying bills. Taking the freaking bus. Listening to music. Parking your car. I'm truthful implicit apps! Can we delight beryllium analog again?"

—Anonymous, 55, Washington

Note: Some responses person been edited for magnitude and/or clarity.

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