People Reveal 45 Social Norms They Secretly Find Just Ridiculous

The idea that men who take good care of their appearance must be gay.

That you should slave your life away to rich a******s that don't care about you, and that if you don't, you're "lazy.".

Doctors and really all providers who schedule an appointment and are expected to be late while you are expected to be early and penalized for being late. Doctors, meetings, interviews, service appointments... and copays before I receive a service of any kind.

Two weeks notice to quit a job. They can let you go without even a seconds warning but if you leave without giving a two week notice you’re the bad guy and filed under “not rehireable”.

The entire idea behind the two week notice is so they could train your replacement but these days they often don’t really have anyone lined up for that. Then they ask you to stay on another week. Not your problem though.

Your employer is only as loyal to you as their bottom line allows. You’re just a number on a spreadsheet. Once you’re no longer useful, you’re out. So there’s no point to being loyal to your employer.

Having kids when you can’t even afford rent.

Dropping 3 month salary on a shiny rock that is just an agreement to another even larger payment in the form of a ceremony.

Start your union by working through a pile of debt.

Having to hide a tampon or a pad when I go to the bathroom to change it because someone might find it embarrassing.

Having to be available 24/7.



I miss the days before mobile phones. I might use the social side of my mobile twice a day, and I get constant complains about it. I won't change. I don't need to.

I've never really understood why it's considered rude to put your elbows on the dinner table.

One_Lobster_7454 replied:
I'll one up you: I've always been told off for having my knife and fork in the wrong hands! 

What f*****g difference does It make? If I was left-handed, it would be the right way round! I find it comfortable that way around. 

It's got to a point where anyone mentioning it just gets the same phrase every time: 'I don't care.'

Bras and panties are taboo but swimwear isn’t. Literally the same s**t just water resistant material.

Hustle culture in general is so f*****g annoying too. We are not defined by how much of our lives we spend grinding away, how hard we hustle nor by our income brackets.

Not having bra straps show, who cares.

Being in a relationship.
Don’t get me wrong, it’s great to have a partner, but the amount of comments and single-shaming and false pity is so annoying.
I don’t need sympathy, I don’t need your unrequested help/ coupling in finding a partner, I don’t need unwarranted suggestions of what I need to change…

I am neither desperate, so please Mr. X stop hitting on me, a no is a no…
and nor do I need other women to think I am posing a threat to their relationship, so Miss Y, I don’t want your man, stop hating on me🙄.

Having to say bye to every person when leaving an event.

Pretending to like small talk when all you really want is to skip to the part where you can comfortably ignore each other.

Parents giving their kids expensive vehicles.

You see a high school douchebag driving a lifted 250 with chrome wheels. Hauling literally nothing but clearly worth the $100,000.

Is it any wonder why the economy’s in shambles, repossessions are up, and entitlement is through the roof?

Just get them a basic 10+ year old Camry or Civic.

Funerals. Horrible use of resources and environmentally harmful. Also, it puts the grieving through so much unnecessary nonsense. My late husband had some serious forethought and refused to allow us to have a funeral. At first I was taken aback but in the end, it was so much easier on me and my kids. He wanted to be cremated and we spread his ashes in a small ceremony with close family when I was ready to let him go.

Obsessing over celebrities or anyone in the media while neglecting your own present life and social circle.

Gino-Bartali replied:
Important to note that professional athletes are, without question, celebrities.
I follow the NBA to a minor extent, but I'm not tuned into it all hours of the day, nor do I let it make me start gambling because, apparently, we decided to regress a bit as a collective.
People who know every trade and every life story of every player are also sometimes likely to talk down on Swifties like they are any different.

Bachelor and bachelorette parties where the point is to live it up one more night as an unmarried person, last chance to enjoy all the vices. Wtf?

Being nice to a person but secretly gossiping or judging behind their back, why not to tell them the truth in the face?