“I was on a job interview in the ’70s.
The man said, ‘Why should I hire you?
I will train you.
Then you will get married and have babies.'”
Even as a millennial, I’ve seen quite a few social norms slowly fade over time.
Here are a few of the outdated behaviors they shared.
“Scolding someone else’s child.
I remember getting corrected by strangers.”
u/roytheodd
2.
“Possibly stopping in at a friend’s house unannounced.
That used to be fairly common when everyone didn’t have a phone in their pocket.”
u/ViCalZip
4.
“Smoking indoors.”
u/OICGraffiti
6.“Bullying.
I was a victim of extreme bullying.
She literally thinks that kids naturally don’t bully other kids because the rule worked!
It’s mind-blowing to me.
I wonder who I’d be if we’d had that rule.”
“Kissing, hugging, or being forced to dance with a creepy relative.”
u/inky_bat
“So revolting.
My parents forced me, and I hated it.
I purposefully don’t hug my sisters’ kids or anyone else’s unless they ask.”
u/Then_Ant7250
8.
I’m talking about longline bras and girdles.
“Inviting the neighborhood children into your home in the ’60s and ’70s.
It was very awkward.
We also had a very religious older woman across the street (empty nester married couple).
She held Bible school every Wednesday after school for neighborhood kids to attend.
Then, we would make a craft project and have a snack.”
We were there for about an hour and a half.
This woman really enjoyed doing this, and the parents didnt seem to mind either.
This would NEVER happen today."
u/Lainarlej
10.
I do remember one guy in boxer shorts and shoes tap dancing."
“Kids mixing alcoholic drinks for guests at home.”
u/Writes4Living
“Or being sent to the store to buy cigarettes.”
u/InvincibleChutzpah
12.
“I was on a job interview in the ’70s.
The man said, ‘Why should I hire you?
I will train you, and then you will get married and have babies.’
I was a college student looking before graduating.”
“Strangers coming up to new mothers and saying, ‘What a cute baby!
May I hold them?'”
u/Maximum_Possession61
14.
“Riding in the bed of a pickup truck, usually on the tire hub.
My mom’s Eagle didn’t have seatbelts in the early ’80s.”
“I worked as a temp a lot during the ’90s.
There were many offices that specified that women were to wear dresses or skirts only, not pants.
That would not fly nowadays.”
u/Nice_Ad4063
“I remember those times, too.
The office women were finally allowed to wear pants, but only in the winter for warmth.
And we were required to wear full pantyhose under them.
We all felt so sly when we would secretly wear the knee-high nylons under pants.”
u/SomeWomanYouDontKnow
16.
“Phoning someone without a heads-up text first.
That kind of objectification was considered a ‘normal’ way to compliment young girls in the ’70s.
To be fair, I’m not sure it’s over.
u/Optimal-Ad-7074
18.
“Cutting through our neighborhood backyards.
We all did it until we got into high school, and cars became the norm.
You might get hurt today.”
u/Echo-Azure
20.
“All my parents’ friends used to give me a spanking each year on my birthday.
Does anyone else remember this?
Note: Some responses have been edited for length and/or clarity.
