“Times Have Changed”: 40 Examples Of Things That Were Once Unacceptable But Are Now Accepted As Shared By The Bored Panda Community

I find it a bit contradictory that the country who pride themselves on freedom is so prejudiced against anyone who is different than themself. I live in UK and never met anyone who would even bat an eye at interracial couple. It’s more like “your husband is from (Zambia) how is the food” but maybe I’m just lucky.

That's the funny thing-- i grew up in Ontario and it literally wasn't until I was 23 that I met a black/ white mixed person my age. I had been going to uni, obviously schools before that and no one was mixed my age. Every mixed kid was younger than me so I was always treated like a novelty or a zoo animal. When i met her she gives me and was like 'I knew I wasn't the only one!'-- and despite looking literally nothing alike, customers and coworkers would confuse us based literally just on skin color as I have very fine features, she had more robust features. She had boxbraids wheras I have natural ringlets and she had glasses and was 3" shorter than me. -- customers would tell at me for issues they had with her and vice versa. Starbucks would ring us up for each other's drink or write the wrong name on the cup.

My son is adopted. He's black and he's been in and out of hospitals for Epilepsy for years. Even now, he's an adult, no one has ever stopped me thinking he wasn't mine. I think it's the deranged mama bear look I give them as gently shove my way to his side.

Both of my kids are adopted and people still don't get it. They see and older white woman with an Asian girl and a Black boy (when they were little) and assume I'm either the nanny or I do foster care. When I say "No, they are mine." The looks are classic. Most do not jump to adoption.

What makes it "unusual"? Do you mean rare (because it could be rare from where you are from). Or do you mean it is odd or not right?

It used to be illegal in many countries, so I think it was a taboo and now it's just uncommon in some places and common in others

You have asked a perfectly valid, inoffensive question, about whether their culture views their interracial marriage as taboo or just unusual- I don't know why you're getting downvoted.

How is it unusual

In Alabama he apparently also promotes incest /j

What on earth are you talking about lol

It is called Roe v. Wade, not Wade vs. Roe

How did equal rights for women become a slam of America?

Wouldn't that just be "both parties on the account have to agree before certain actions can be taken" cause I'm pretty sure that's a thing

Not because she was a woman

Bought a house. HUNTINGTON BANK SENT ESCRO checks TO MY SPOUSE and gave me grief when I went to put it on the principal. Had to argue that it was their mistake for not putting m÷ on the check. That was a year ago.

That's great news for you, but you should recognize that you are the exception, and not the rule. I can tell you that in the times I have been directly responsible for employee compensation, in my male dominated field, it was routine to see that women made about 20% less on average from their male coworkers. Much of this difference had to do with salary negotiation, or specifically a lack thereof during the hiring process. But it was definitely there, and quite obvious to anyone who bothered looking.

Can you give us advice , how you are doing it? Infact, you should write a book on it. I am happy to buy.

Gutting roe taking away womens reproductive rights. Gerrymandering low income voting areas and making it hard for people to vote

In the US? Most of them. Men are also regularly promoted over women, and in my field, academia, you can have a room full of women scholars, and it's the one man who will get the awards, interviews, and funding. That's before we get to the fact that women are left behind because we're told we're just going to get pregnant and quit. I hear this at every place I've worked: women aren't "good investments" that way and all. Systemic oppression f***s up everything.

I am an engineering lead. I would guess, from my albeit small sample size, that women make about 20% less on average than their male peers. This would include people with the same title. An example might be a female engineer who makes $80K but her male counterpart is making $100K. Part of why I didn't want to be a manager anymore was because I felt like I was constantly fighting battles with my company trying to get my employees on par with their peers. The response from corporate was that they should have done a better job negotiating their salaries, but most of these women are H1B recipients. They are rarely in a position to negotiate, and they have to overcome a huge number of obstacles to just get in the door. And I've heard all of the reasons. Chief among them is "what if she gets pregnant" but nobody ever asks, "what if he decides to be a stay at home dad".

That would be all of them. Literally all of them.

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I'm a female and there isn't a disparity in pay. In the 70's women were marching and protesting and actually compared (on TV) secretaries and Gardners!

The insane ones are not feminists. Feminism ins equality, not female supremacy.

Because it still exists! Do some research ts a well known studied and documented issue. The only people who don't "believe" in it are those privileged to not be impacted by it. Facts don't care about your "beliefs" and the wage gap is a fact.

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Maybe they're still thinking about the WNBA, lol.

Exactly. And I'll add with identical education and experience.

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Wow... With those downvotes it looks like it's women Suffrage all over again... wanting equal good stuff without being equal on the bad stuff(women always could have had the right to vote in the US, they just, en masse, didn't want to perform civil duties like bucket brigade or draft). Women's Suffrage's main objective was prohibition, so men would be sober,more godly and fully provide so they(women) didn't have to work, just raise kids and housework. Previously, work from home like seamstress and baking, and working outside the home in stores and factories were normal for women.

oh yeah america is taking steps back for everything now tho. women's rights, racist officers, etc

Freedom for Straight White Males and No One Else is America's motto right now,

In some yes, but not the U.S. unfortunately