People Over 50 Are Revealing The Disturbing Habits From The '70s That We've "Conveniently Forgotten," And I'm Honestly Too Stunned To Speak

Maybe it's a mid-life crisis, oregon possibly it's conscionable adulting, but I've precocious go obsessed with speechmaking astir what beingness was similar successful decades past. And what amended mode to bash that than by learning from radical who were really determination for each the chaos that unfolded successful caller history? Why not fto them archer america immoderate details we astir apt aren't alert of?

And this time, we're gonna absorption connected the '70s — because, yes, that was 50 years agone now. Older radical connected Reddit person precocious been answering the question: "What portion of the 1970s bash radical similar to hide about?" Without further ado, present are immoderate of the apical responses...

1. "The intersexual state that followed Roe v. Wade. So galore radical were screwing truthful galore others. The porn movie Deep Throat was a top-10 movie the twelvemonth it was released. Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice was released successful precocious 1969, but its interaction led to the '70s."

—whiporee123

2. "Pollution. In LA, you ne'er saw the 10,000 ft mountains close adjacent to the metropolis due to the fact that the smog was truthful thick."

—kirbyderwood

"In LA we had authoritative 'smog days' wherever the contamination was truthful atrocious that recess and aft schoolhouse sports would beryllium cancelled, sometimes for days connected end. So we would person recess astatine our desks. Brutal."

—1_Urban_Achiever

3. "Rampant, over-the-top sexism, adjacent successful a supposedly wide community. I was a young pistillate then. It was bad, truly bad. As a newlywed, I had gotten a bully job, and the brag instantly told maine if I didn't enactment retired 'like the remainder of them' I would suffer it. I walked retired of the bureau and told my hubby erstwhile I got home. He met that feline successful the parking batch aft enactment — and I went to enactment the pursuing time and helium near maine alone. Not due to the fact that helium wanted to, but due to the fact that helium knew his ass was writer if helium bothered me. Women without the enactment of a antheral were retired of luck and abused daily. It was truthful bad."

—Profleroy

5. "The ostentation was insane. Remember Nixon's effort to frost it? It should person been greeted with cheers, but it was a implicit nationalist relations failure."

—Logical_not

6. "Smoking everywhere. Subways, zoos, movie theaters, simple schools, etc."

—RKFRini

"My dada owned a fashionable restaurant, and helium went afloat non-smoking successful 1980 (though helium was a dense smoker himself). It was a immense woody successful our small municipality for a bit. There was a front-page communicative astir it successful our section newspaper, with passionate 'for' and 'against' quotes from section residents. Looking back, I'm truly arrogant that helium was truthful up of the curve."

—AxelShoes

7. "Carpets successful the bath and kitchen. This was rather communal successful my neighborhood, truthful I'm guessing others person hatred for this too."

—wifespissed

9. "The steps made to statesman cleaning up the environment. It's not thing we 'like' to hide about, but galore radical don't retrieve oregon recognize the advancement made to cleanable up our environment. The anticipation of taking attraction of our satellite has go commonplace; it didn't utilized to beryllium similar that. There is inactive a batch of enactment to do, but we've travel a agelong mode successful 50 years.

"I remember: changing the lipid and dumping the utilized lipid connected the ground; tons of litter connected roads and highways; smokestacks with tons of smoke; traveling done large cities and noticing the stink; leaded gasoline; and burning household trash successful the backyard pain barrel."

—my_clever-name

10. "White men with curly perms wearing one-piece leisure suits."

—middleagerioter

"I retrieve moving into my friend's dada getting a perm successful the quality salon astir 1980 and reasoning it was the stupidest happening I had ever seen!!!"

—atomickristin

12. "Fear of getting swallowed up by quicksand."

—INCoctopus

"Those of america who grew up successful the '70s were led to judge that this would beryllium a overmuch bigger occupation than it really is, LOL."

—GunMetalBlonde

13. "The radical who thought that spot belts and airbags were depriving them of liberty."

—eliota1

14. "Many young girls went missing implicit those years. We were truthful naive astir the beingness of evil."

—DarlingMarling

15. "I retrieve nary AC successful the schools...on hot, humid days, the teachers would crook disconnected the lights to marque it cooler."

—No_Variety9420

16. "The backlash of nine against the vibes of hippie culture."

—DonManuel

"The backlash started with the bussing and sex wars, and past the backlashers got the precocious manus culturally for the archetypal portion of the 1980s."

—Flat-Leg-6833

17. "In Canada, women were not allowed to get recognition (card/loans) without a antheral co-signing. In France, kindergarteners were inactive fixed a glass of wine. Oh, and they were inactive guillotining people."

—Staran

18. "I was 14 years aged successful 1978. My guidance counsellor reviewed my people selections for the adjacent twelvemonth of precocious schoolhouse and 1 of my choices was chemistry. He looked astatine maine and said, 'Now, wherefore would a young woman request chemistry...why don't we alteration that to secretarial skills instead?' And me, being a kid not knowing immoderate better, I said 'OK' and helium enrolled maine to larn however to benignant and bash shorthand/dictation similar a bully small girl. That's what I don't miss astir the 1970s: being told arsenic a young woman that I person constricted things that I should beryllium preparing for and doing successful my life."

—janebenn333

19. "I was a kid successful the '70s, and I retrieve everything stank. The cars connected the road, indoors (tobacco smoke), trash piled up by the sidewalk...even the streams and rivers were foul."

—bladel

20. "The emergence of recreational usage of pills. Reds, yellows, rainbows, Quaaludes, achromatic crosses, and the emergence of methamphetamine."

—Twentyone_Taras

21. "People similar to hide astir astatine slightest 50% of the popular euphony from the '70s, due to the fact that it was awful."

—FaberGrad

"Some of it was ghastly atrocious — I had to perceive to FM precise selectively to find the bully stuff, and past get immoderate vinyl I could afford, which wasn't much."

—Here_there1980

22. "The deficiency of wildlife. It was uncommon to spot deer, and unheard of to spot eagles successful their situation successful the midwest. They made a comeback successful the '80s and are communal now, adjacent though the quality colonisation has grown."

—Actual_Tap6378

23. "In the '70s I was 8–18. As a kid, I retrieve the nightly quality and each the stories astir Vietnam, and seeing quality reporters with the soldiers retired successful the field. They were showing dormant radical connected the quality and radical getting changeable connected the news. It was the archetypal warfare that was shown each nighttime connected the nightly news. Which helped substance a batch of the anti-war protests. It was a large alleviation to maine erstwhile the warfare ended earlier I turned 18."

—GuitarMessenger

24. "The wide 'malaise' (what we'd telephone the 'vibe' today), particularly toward the end. The economy, the lipid shortages, the wide consciousness that America was a mess, a longing for the 'good aged days' of the 1950s."

—Eastern-Finish-1251

25. "How agelong it took to cook! When I was a kid, I had to hold for 45 fucking minutes for a turkey cookware pastry to cook, from the freezer, successful the oven. Now, with microwaves and toaster ovens, cooking is truthful overmuch faster."

—BarneyBungelupper

26. "Getting crap TV reception and having to perpetually set the aerial. Only having similar 4 channels: ABC, NBC, CBS and PBS."

—No_Conversation_5661

27. "People hide that raising 'free range' kids, '70s–80s-style, truly did entail putting children into information that they astir apt should not person been enactment into. There was a spread betwixt moms successful the vicinity being location and a consciousness of neighborhood/community of the '50s–'60s, and kids were being dumped into a satellite they were unprepared for without immoderate oversight oregon protection. By the property of 7, I was coming location unsocial to an unlocked location successful an country afloat of transient weirdos surviving successful rented duplexes — nary 1 knew you, nary 1 cared, and creeps abounded; I didn't adjacent cognize my parents' enactment numbers. I was near unsocial astatine nighttime with infants successful my attraction by the clip I was 11. It was terrifying. My parents lone cared astir their ain lives and their ain bully times — and they were respectable professionals! Can't adjacent ideate what radical whose parents were really scumbags were experiencing."

"As we got older, we started drinking, smoking pot, and experimenting with enactment earlier we were adjacent 12 years old. Much older teens and adjacent young adults were progressive successful this.

Did the chopper parents of the '90s connected instrumentality things excessively far? Yes, sure, but determination was nary excuse for what kids increasing up successful the '70s and '80s went through. It wasn't each motorcycle rides and Goonies adventures."

—atomickristin

Now that we've covered the '70s, let's speech astir the '80s! People who were there, what's 1 happening cipher talks astir anymore that was rampant 40 years ago? Tell maine successful this anonymous form, oregon successful the comments below!

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