What traditions would be good to get rid of?

Gender based clothing, gender based social roles, and weasel stomping day.

Agree with @ragingloli, even though I’ve never moved fast enough to stomp those speedy little weasels, so that wouldn’t affect me personally.

Yep they should end Weasel Stomping Day

Thanks to Weird Al.

Day light savings.

^Best answer!

I fucking hate Day light savings….

greeting cards (birthdays, holidays, etc)

Prayers before council meetings

Supposedly, Florida was/is voting on daylight savings. I don’t know when it’s happening or if it happened already and I missed it. I need to look it up. When I first heard I did look it up, and it appeared they were choosing savings time (thank goodness) rather than standard time.

Edit: I found a link about it, what does it mean? Can someone read it for me? It’s just a few paragraphs. https://wsvn.com/news/local/senator-proposes-bill-to-exempt-florida-from-daylight-savings-time/

@rockfan They did away with some of that in Memphis when I lived there. Big backlash when it happened.

It seems to me that outdated traditions tend to die a natural death when new generations simply refuse to follow the trend. As with the diamond rings you mention, I don’t see as many young women wearing a diamond as her engagement ring that often anymore. They are opting for their favorite gem of choice. When my nephew & his wife got married, they opted to have a special personally created tattoo applied to their ring finger to indicate their love for each other!!!

This isn’t one that really has any negative side, but it’s one that I’ve personally gotten rid of. I don’t say “bless you” after someone sneezes anymore. I was raised to, but I’ve gotten out of the habit. It’s bizarre. Why should I comment on someone else’s bodily function? It’s not my business that you sneezed. I don’t expect anyone to say anything when I do either. Now if someone says “excuse me” for something like burping or sneezing, I might say “you’re excused”, but that’s responding to what they’ve said, not to a sternutation!

Otherwise, yes, do away with Daylight Savings time :D

Having large families, like more than one child.

Having large families is another that is becoming extinct. Now the US government is worried that there won’t be enough children to support the economy.

My Great Gramps fathered 16 children so he wouldn’t need to hire workers for his farm. He believed in having a built-in work crew. Now days a large family is 4–5 with many families opting to have 0.

I personally believe a low population would be a plus because it will draw people back together in order to survive like the villages of olden days. We have way too many experts now days!!!

Singing the national anthem at domestic sporting events. I don’t see the connection, and it causes problems unnecessarily. It certainly makes sense at the Olympics, but not for a baseball game. Do they play the Canadian anthem for the Blue Jays?

All traditions associated with royalty should be scrapped as should royalty itself.

Over-the-top Christmas.

Every year, I watch the frenzy – roads jammed with people who spend hours, money, and effort buying gifts. Does anybody really need a huge pile of presents? Do children even recall what they received in a deluge of wrapped packages; wouldn’t a single, meaningful gift be better appreciated and remembered? All of this is done at the cost of depleted savings and credit card debt.

The Electoral College.

The running of the bulls at Pamplona, Spain.

Most pomp and circumstance in government. I would get rid of the anthem and prayer in sports and politics, and school. I would do away with chruch singing. I would set the timezones to one time instead of 24 timezones. I would get rid of the daylight savings time. I would no longer introduce every guest in provincial question period. I would get rid of bull fighting.

@RedDeerGuy1 You would put all the world on the one time zone, night or day??

@flutherother not a time based on the solar cycle. I would use an independent of high noon time. Like a number from 0 – 10. Or some better way to tell time without the sun as a reference. What would the time be on Mars? We would have to adapt the time cycle to be not on the sun earth high noon timescale.

@reddeerguy1. Just curious as to why you would cut out singing in church?

@chyna I think that the singing is a legal contract with God. To give my soul to Christ to have for eternity. I want to own my own soul. When I was going to chruch I would show up late to get to the good stuff. The sermon and introduction of members. Some songs I don’t agree with. I am usually left with amazing grace as a song that I agree with.

I think there is a lot to be said for abandoning the tradition of building houses above ground. Living in underground homes would allow the environment to flourish and would be cooler in summer and warmer in winter. We wouldn’t need gardens as the surface world would be one huge garden in which we could walk when and where we chose.

Marriage, replace it with specific, agreed upon contracts that are legally binding where penalties for breaking said contract are structured, rigid and not subjective. With a 50% divorce rate and the damage divorce causes to people and children who end up on the wrong side and there almost always is a wrong side I think it’s safe to say that society can do better.

@ARE_you_kidding_me I believe that Mexico has considered a two year trial marriage . I agree that something has to change.

@flutherother These answers suggest a Coordinated Universal Time

I don’t like the idea of no singing in church because it lights up my heart!!! I miss the old hymns that we used to caterwaul years ago. This new fangled stuff leaves me with a hole in my heart!!!

I love those chants in church

@LadyMarissa I would allow it to be grandfathered for those who want to sing. I would at least just allow people to remain steated and silent if they choose.

@RedDeerGuy1 we already do that at my church…participation is volunteer NOT mandatory!!! I don’t always sing well; so, I pick & choose when I want to participate!!!

The tradition that it is the man who proposes marriage.

The tradition that it is the woman that has to cover herself in makeup to look pretty to men.
Should be the other way around, like in nature.

You mean whichever man has the biggest cock?
And makeup is something that women do to themselves, men really don’t give a shit. Makeup can’t make a figure look better.

@ARE_you_kidding_me If you pay attention to birds & other critters around us, the male birds are a lot more colorful than the females. Male peacocks are the most beautifil. With fish, it’s the males that have all the pretty colors, the females are plain. Male lizards are a lot prettier than the females…And…The biggest cock also doesn’t make a man a better lover!!! I always said the smaller the better until I married a man with ED & discovered it was the love NOT the cock that gave me the MOST pleasure!!!

In most societies money is necessary for safety (shelter, healthcare, food, etc) and basically almost everything material, and so men are more attractive having money. Not that money is the sole thing, of course not, but money is a part of the equation. I don’t mean rich, I just mean stable and responsible.

Animals don’t deal with money, so what makes them attractive is other qualities.

Human males are programmed to be attracted to females with signs of fertility and human females are programmed to seek out safety, security and resources. So much human nature boils down to just those things.

First, I’ll have to say if the said tradition is a national tradition then I’ll leave it alone no matter how much I disagree with the tradition since such a thing will provide an extra holiday on the calendar.

With that being said, I feel that the tradition of circumcision should be abolished. I also disagree with the ‘food war’ tradition adopted by certain community as such a thing mean a waste of useful food, a disrespect to nature, and an insult to people that live in countries suffering poverty and famine. For Halloween, I’m quite partial about it, I feel that the tradition of wearing frightening costumes should be enforced while erasing the ‘newer’ tradition of wearing whatever costumes you want (fairies and cute animal costumes are such a disgrace to halloween day that is supposed to give other people more heart attack). Also, I disgree with the tradition of Christmas of having a real tree inside your house as it will mean more deforestation. The Western birthday tradition of opening the gift right away should also be erased, party guests should not be made to feel pressured to give gifts, birthday person should have no right to name the gift they want, and the feeling of happiness of offering a gift should not be compromised by the reaction of gift receiver.

@Unofficial_Member. I’m with you on the gift opening bit. I had forgotten that one, but It’s something I’ve thought for a long time. Weddings we don’t do it, but birthdays for kids and baby showers for adults have the tradition of opening the gifts in front of everyone, and in many families Christmas is in front of everyone too, and I think it’s a bad idea.

I’m not talking about children opening their Santa gifts Christmas morning, I think that’s fine. I mean when families painstakingly open gifts among the adults with who gave who what. But then, I think the gift giving among the adults at Christmas time is probably a bad idea altogether. Just give gifts to the kids at the family get together. The funnest part is watching the children anyway.

A lot of people talk about liking Thanksgiving best, because there is no gift giving pressure. Putting the pressure into Christmas seems illogical.

Speaking of Christmas, the tradition of telling kids about Santa Claus should be dropped. It only sets them up for disappointment when they learn the truth.

^^I’m always shocked to hear that’s a big deal, or was a big deal, for some people. I think most kids take it in stride. Why else would so many generations repeat the tradition? They have even augmented it now with the elf on the shelf, although I personally don’t like the elf, because the overwhelming focus seems to be in threatening kids with the naughty or nice bit, and I very much dislike that part of the Santa schtick.

Santa Claus is an obese, slave owning product pirate, serial home intruder, stalker and child abuser.

^What’s not to love?!

@ragingloli ^^^ He could be President, in a red suit ^^^

^^ But that would clash with his orange face!

@rockfan Wow, we don’t even pray before council in rural Missouri, that’s pretty wild in 2018.

I would agree with many of you, stop the gender specific roles and clothing and for God’s sake stop teaching women our only role is as breeders and wives.

I’ve said it before. Ad soon as kids can play with things, we give boys toy guns, and girls baby dolls. Then we wonder why our society is fucked up….

I see kids seek out what they want to play with, you simply can’t make a child like what they like. It’s biology more than anything else. Society should just nurture an individuals needs and interests. Forcing gender roles and especially forcing gender neutral roles is 180 degrees from where we need to be.

Not my culture, but shooting guns in wedding celebrations.

In defense of Daylight Savings: I worked for the phone company, closing traffic lanes to work in manholes and such. DST allowed us to do this when we were better seen during morning hours. This is dangerous work, and I’ll take every advantage.
Also, think about kids walking to school in the dark.