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by littlegreycells on October 28th, 2009
Kids/sex before marriage, and living together without being married.
by SABOTEUR on October 28th, 2009
Let's see...off the top of my head...
* Children born out of wedlock.
* Pants that are too big for your butt.
* Profanity on tv.
by Over and Out on October 28th, 2009
Having your underwear hang out of your clothing
Kids telling grown ups off
Girls wearing pants to school and worse
by The Jester on October 28th, 2009
Interracial marriage, being a single mother, and differences in human sexuality.
by rigby on October 28th, 2009
women having children out of wedlock
by Tom on October 28th, 2009
Women in a bar room
Women smoking
by Ganja Girl on October 28th, 2009
showin off your gams!
by TheJoker on October 28th, 2009
Swearing..... especially f*ck!
by - MojoThunder - on October 28th, 2009
women showing ankles in public ... but my favorite is showing married couples in the same bed on TV instead of sleeping in seperate twin beds
by Killasmile on October 28th, 2009
well it depends on the believes of each country , each religion but in general i'll say that may be the only common thing that used to be disgraceful but not any more is makin' love before marriage .
by PenetratingThursday on October 28th, 2009
pregnancy before marriage.
homosexuality.
tatoos.
showing skin.
cuss words.
magic.
dirty house.
eating your dinner with your desert fork ("how am i supposed to choose between the four of these, anyway??")lol
by justmesuzanne on October 28th, 2009
All kinds of things - within my lifetime - interracial relationships (including friendships) interracial marriage, living together before marriage, having children out of wedlock, keeping your child with a disability at home rather than institutionalizing, being openly gay or lesbian, having a president who is not a middle-aged white man, women wearing pants in public, swearing in public, women smoking and drinking...It goes on and on. The amount of change since the late 1950s is staggering.
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2009
Yes, its terrible. Everything from living together before marriage and premarital sex to profanity and music with bad lyrics and our media. What is this world coming to?
by Dr_Dredd on October 28th, 2009
Sodomy. One need only to look at two U.S. Supreme Court cases separated by not too many years:
Bowers v. Hardwick (1986): Upheld the constitutionality of a Georgia sodomy law that criminalized oral and anal sex in private between consenting adults.
Lawrence v. Texas (2003): Explicitly overruled Bowers, held that intimate consensual sexual conduct was a liberty interest protected by the 14th Amendment.
by Scotslass on October 28th, 2009
I appreciate that most of these answers involve attitudes towards women as there are more opportunities to behave in adverse/different ways than historically possible.
Do people have any similar ways that male behaviour has changed?
by U C ME on October 28th, 2009
Anal sex! Avarice!
by Blackberry. on October 28th, 2009
Doing anything besides giving commands to a black person.
by Anonymous on October 29th, 2009
So... you want a list. Here is what I can remember.
Kids arguing and being disrespectful to teachers, parents or any adult. Sagging.
Not giving up your seat on a train or bus to a woman or elderly person. Not offering help to a woman, disabled person or an elderly person with a door, groceries, car trouble or things neighbors used to do out of common courtesy or kindness.
Trash talking about the President.
Body piercing.
Charging 27% interest on anything.
Dressing causally in a place of worship.
Airing private and dirty laundry on radio or national tv.
Not taking personal responsibility for your actions and behaviors. (to big to fail).
Flunking kids in school who could not pass or make the grade. Not holding to academic standards.
Public swearing or telling off-color jokes around women, children, mixed generational gatherings or at the work place.
Venting your marital discord and details of divorce in front your children.
Not being to work on time and not working while you are there.
Swearing on the radio or in music.
Letting your children run around in a store or restaurant without watching them.
Being home at a certain time on school nights.
Getting personal phone calls at work or school that are not emergency related.
Tattoos if you were not a sailor, biker, convict or pirate.
Earrings on men.
Minorities in government or civil service.
Women who flaunt their nudity and indiscretions in public.
Not spanking your children to discipline them.
Buying only what you can't afford on credit.
Commercializing holidays.
Practicing birth control.
Advertising personal hygiene or male enhancement products on television.
Scandals involving professional athletes, entertainers, financial institutions and government, state employees.
Arguing publicly about any issue or topic when it is clear to all that the person arguing is clueless.
Subverting civic, government, religious, educational or military objectives and normal processes for personal agendas and personal gain.
Taxpaying citizens condoning corruption and irresponsible behavior from elected officials.
Media fabrication of lies and half-truths for ratings and entertainment.
Being a member of a gang. Using drugs, shooting people in schools, university campuses and churches, violating parole, being sent to and spending time in a correctional facility.
These do not begin to scratch the surface.
by CakeOrDeath on October 29th, 2009
Michael Jackson
by R U Sirius on October 28th, 2009
SHACKING up...............
by Miss Anubis loves this season on October 28th, 2009
Adultery; Children before marriage (the term bastard was originally applied to any children born out of wedlock), prostitution, pornography
by Blackope-Knowledge is Power on October 28th, 2009
Women openly participating in simultaneous sexual relationships with multiple partners with no shame or inhibition. People going on TV shows (like Jerry Springer) and discussing all of their dysfunctionality to millions of viewers. The instilling of morals and family values have gone to the way of the dinosaur.
by sariskyfire on October 28th, 2009
Speaking from the perspective of an American:
Women wearing pants
Women voting
Women holding jobs outside of the home
Women getting an abortion (although people still do protest this, it's at least legal now)
Basically anything regarding the rights of women that they are now granted.
Actually, that goes for minorities too. In many respects, America has come a long way in the last 100 years (and yet sometimes I wonder how much we've really progressed, but that's another topic for another discussion).
by Wind in the Willow on October 28th, 2009
Promiscuity
Going to Jail
Alcoholism and Drug Use
by Anonymous T on November 7th, 2009
Whoring around.
Sexualy strange stuff.
Kids without marriage.
.
Insulting people without getting
Your satisfaction from a duel.
Now everyone can pour shit on You
as much as they want, as long as
You're not an important politician.
.
For a man: being submissive towards
a woman and allowing her to talk back
and insult You without giving Her bruises.
.
Porn and prostitution.
.
Anonymous "trolling" - both on the internet
and in real life - and getting away with it.
.
In general almost everything seems to be
acceptable nowadays.
.
Just a while more and people will start
wondering whether it should become acceptable
to f*** infants. Who knows, maybe it's just
some old predicament, a thing of the past,
that only close-minded dinosaurs seem to
forbid.
.
Maybe killing chosen people in the society
should also be acceptable. Maybe even some
day You won't be considered a real man until
You hunt down at least one neighbour with
a hatchet.
.
After all "everything is for people" and
"You need to try everything at least once
in life". Why would incest, rape and murder
be excluded from this rule?
by happiness on November 7th, 2009
Having sex outside a marriage.
by ItsMeT on November 7th, 2009
The press and the nation used to "respect" the office of the president. That's why we don't have hardly any pictures of Roosevelt in a wheelchair or Kenedy with a girlfriend. Heck, for a long time, the incumbant president wasn't even allowed to campaign for himself, he had to send out his VP on the trail to speak for him (but that was when the president actually had work to do, I think).
by Entertaining Effup on October 29th, 2009
Talking on a cell phone in a freaking restaurant!
by Entertaining Effup on October 29th, 2009
Blatant narcissism.
by Entertaining Effup on October 29th, 2009
Photographing or filming of sexual escapades...
by Moongrim on October 29th, 2009
Bathing.
Unwashed Christian used to be a point of pride.
by philosopher-saint on October 28th, 2009
I dunno. Autoerotica?
;-)
by JUGMAN1000 on October 28th, 2009
sex..
by mother earth on October 28th, 2009
Divorce is one. (and I am all for it)
Admitting you are not a responsible adult as evidenced in the form of lawsuits if you trip or fall in a public place, or otherwise hurt yourself. Remember the lady who got burnt with hot coffee. We would have never sued, and especially never have admitted we did something that stupid. You took your lumps and got on with your life. Any thing else would have been disgraceful. Lacking grace.
by Lonely - Rebel - AYPWIP on October 28th, 2009
Stealing - expecting the goverment to give you a job - using race to set the President up for failure - selling out - the idea that life revolves around (only)you - passing children, who cannot do the work - a world full of people, who are only looking for hand out - having to fight for a college education - our word means nothing - allowing a child to go hungry - homeless families
by Anonymous on October 28th, 2009
Anal sex used to be punishable by death.
Worshipping statues/paintings that were considered to have some kind of link to God or belonged to the extremely religious and thus had 'healing' powers.
Praying outside of church instead of attending church to pray. Not praying at all could sometimes be considered heresy and punishable by death/imprisonment.
Allowing women into the medical profession.
Allowing women into universities.
Ethnic minorities having an education in western countries.
by the guy behind the bushes on October 28th, 2009
The words bi**ch, sl*t, a** on tv.
by Mavericks just doin a flyby on November 7th, 2009
Rude behavior.
by Thriftymaid on November 7th, 2009
Many are very accepting of a completely immoral lifestyle. The country is paying for that.
by BigDaddyBS on November 7th, 2009
Cursing
Kids having sex (13-18)
Kids having babies
Kids having abortions
by Timjon on October 29th, 2009
divorce and sex before marriage----what the Bible calls fornication.
by Brown Eyes on October 29th, 2009
HOMOSEXUALITY...for sure! ...btw, I'm NOT Gay and am old enough to remember when the word "gay" was used to describe a mood..lol...not a person. To each his own... Viva la difference!!
by buttkisses on October 29th, 2009
Stay at home dads.
Women who worked outside of the home.
Children out after dark.
latchkey kids.
by quack is whack on October 28th, 2009
Ankles ;)
by Fiddle Playing Creole Bastard on October 28th, 2009
That jukebox of satan: Rock n Roll music.
by pandora on October 28th, 2009
kissing on a first date.
by betony24.rei-chan on October 28th, 2009
you can't touch a woman until you're married to her.
by kybear on October 28th, 2009
When I was a young man, you never said the word "fuck" in the presence of a lady. I've actually seen a fight because some guy said it in front of another guy's girlfriend. It seems today, the girls say it as much as the guys do.
by ak_spook on October 28th, 2009
incest, being gay, underage sex, death penalties(which im for. the prisons are full)
by Emmi331 on October 28th, 2009
Ladies wearing their underwear as outerwear.
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Comments
That seems to be so.
Thanks, littlegreycells.:)
by sm00z on October 28th, 2009
That was the first thing that came to mind. It was obviously totally unheard of back in....I was gonna say ancient times but that's a bit mean lol, so...a while back, cos so many older people are acting all shocked and judging people who have kids before marriage or live together before marriage.
by littlegreycells on October 28th, 2009
@LGC so true! 6+
by FairLady on October 28th, 2009
Lol I was just talking about that with my driving instructor, I'm so weird! :)
by littlegreycells on October 29th, 2009