50 Strange, Weird, And Straight-Up Bizarre Parts Of American Culture

Couldn’t have said it better. Thank you, Kathryn Baylis, for explaining to so many non-Americans, who love bashing our country even tho they have never been here, that we are not one homogeneous entity.

As an Australian I do NOT 'bash' the US. I have always enjoyed my MANY times there and have many friends who still live there. Of course, they are now mostly 'thinking Democrats' (funny that). However I am appalled by the increasingly rabid right wing fascists who are making the most noise and making the least sense. MTG and Matt Gaetz make Kevin McCarthy look almost sane! I cannot BEGIN to understand what they are on about, except that they apparently want to destroy the USA as we know it. OK, it isn't perfect, but how is anarchy, or Gilead, better? Margaret Attwood was incredibly perceptive.

I'm not bashing with my answer above but I don't need that on an expensive holiday.

I think since the Trump presidency it seems to be the only voice we hear over the pond. I'm sorry for it too, I used to love The States but so much of it goes against my grain that I'm completely turned off by the thought of visiting in the near future. I know it's wrong but the thought of someone ramming that s**t down my throat and me being in their country, I don't think I could enjoy a visit any longer.

Don't forget that 81 million Americans voted against Trump. Biden campaigned from his basement. He won because he wasn't Trump and he was bland as soggy white bread.

Agreed. Everyone seems to forget 81 million Americans voted for Biden because we rejected MAGA. At the start of the Cold-War, McCarthyism was just an American Inquisition disguised as American Patriotism. The Cold-War ended and America started to try to shake off the theocracy that temporarily replaced our Constitutional Democracy. Trumpism is the 2nd American Inquisition. Trump is their High Inquisitor. This time they can't label Non-Christians Soviet sympathizers. Democrats have to reclaim American Patriotism.

While I am now firmly in the Democratic camp, I used to have respect for Republicans, especially Eisenhower. This evaporated under Reagan.

This!!

If you read the article, you would have learned that the jail staff refused her access to any sort of care at all while she was in labour, and she gave birth unassisted while standing up in a prison shower, finally losing consciousness. She nearly bled to death but was thankfully taken to hospital. Prison staff provided no care for her at any time. Prison staff then denied her the painkillers and breast pump prescribed for her, after having previously denied her other prescribed medication. The prison staff had previously denied her access to all the prenatal care visits she needed, which were vital since medical tests had shown hers was a high risk pregnancy. She was imprisoned supposedly to protect her unborn child. What really happened was that the prison intentionally ran a harmful regime intended to risk the life of imprisoned mothers and their unborn children. In 2019, the same intentionally abusive prison regime did in fact kill the unborn child of another imprisoned mother.

She should have been treated with dignity and not be in jail

The Kennedy method of just shoving it back in there. Seriously though when Rose Kennedy was giving birth to her daughter Rosemary, a nurse shoved the baby back up the birth canal.

I don't get why so many people want to "leave it up to the parents" and don't see how that's a horrible idea. Sex ed is the intersection of personal safety and science, something that random people whose only qualifications are the ability to procreate should not be left in charge of.

They're talking about breasts, not the whole woman.

at leat you realized what you did wrong so here's an upvote id usually change my comments if i realized i was wrong

What Ray Ceeya is talking about has nothing to do with aesthetics. It's about normalizing the human body rather than treating it as a taboo. Treating the human body and sex as the most taboo thing in the world is the driving reason that rape is about 10 times more likely in the U.S. compared to most countries.

True, there where there is, even more covering up mandatory, like under islamic law, like in Morocco, Iran etc.... the rape statistics are skyrocketing.... There is the same fuzz over an uncovered leg or rm as in the USA over a niple.

Mmm...Yes, quite right. There's a zombie film called 28 Days After. Cillian Murphy's in it (Oppenheimer), when far younger than today. In one early scene he gets displayed in all his full frontal glory. The d*ck is not the point. Have a watch - it's a good film either way.