what outdated social norm would you like to see make a return?

1. For it to be acceptable and normal to be un-contactable for a while. Mobile phones and social media are useful, yes, but it is amazing how over the space of the last few years everyone is expected to be contactable a at pretty much any time. I went away for a weekend camping and turned my phone off. Told my close friends and family where I was going and they were freaking out about not being able to reach me for two whole days, and when I turned it back on I had about 20 messages and missed calls from various people. Then when you try to explain that you want to be away from your phone / social media etc they look at you as if you have two heads.
   — s_p_a_c_e_m_a_n


2. Privacy.
   — Salegosse


3. Lan parties!
   — 13AccentVA






4. Being able to pay for college from the wages of a summer job. Easily being able to buy your own house by the time you're 30.
   — Cpt_Tsundere_Sharks


5. Capes
   — xvPridevx


6. Monocles, because there is no better way to express surprise
   — m0le






7. Back in like the 1930s or so, if a lesbian or bisexual woman wanted to make it clear that they were romantically interested in another woman, and not just being friendly and talking like girls do, she'd give her a violet.
   — NotYourGoat


8. Allow two gentlemen to settle an argument with a little fisticuffs then shake hands and go their separate ways without suing one another.
   — Richard-Hindquarters


9. i wish kids were allowed to be kids
   — elainanoel






10. My nephew isn't allowed to play Red Rover or Dodgeball because it "promotes bullying".
    — Richard-Hindquarters