Because I'm just in that kind of mood.

[theweaselking]

What behaviour, common and generally socially acceptable now, will be taboo in one hundred years? What thing that we do today will be viewed as barbaric, savage, backwards, and unthinkable in a century?

Comments

[drcuriosity]

With any luck, calling something "gay" as a general perjorative term.

[anktastic.livejournal.com]

Or maybe "gay" will lose all other meanings and just be a pejorative term -- but everyone will be equally treated regardless of who or what they love. What I mean is, who cares what the labels are as long as they don't hurt anyone?

[whisperkit.livejournal.com]

We live in hope.

[kierthos.livejournal.com]

RELIGION

(What, I can hope, right?)

[endotoxin.livejournal.com]

If there's any justice...

[a-jaclyn.livejournal.com]

eating in public will be forbidden, but bowel movements will be encouraged.

[undeadbydawn.livejournal.com]

chewing with your mouth open.

the level of table manners is fucking deplorable, to the extent that I've completely given up on eating out, ever.
I'm often puzzled by the number of clearly upper-class students who eat like they're having a 'who's the most disgustingly noisy bastard' contest

[lirion.livejournal.com]

Using high pressure hoses/high volume water for cleaning purposes. No more hosing down the pavements etc.

And with any luck, all power will be from renewable resources.

[lordbleys.livejournal.com]

Sarah Palin.

[dreamshade.livejournal.com]

We view our "founding fathers" as deific, perfect figures, despite the fact that they were largely rich landowners who created the government to specifically serve their interests and constantly argued amongst themselves. I'd be more afraid that in a hundred years, conservatives forget about St. Sarah's quirks and hold her up as one of the heroes of the reactionary revolution.

[snakey.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Burial of corpses (rather than other methods of disposal).

[perfessorevil.livejournal.com]

Knife and fork?

[eris-esoteric.livejournal.com]

IAWTC.

[skington.livejournal.com]

Hopefully: hating on women and reproductive freedom in general. Should patriarchal right-wing attempts to ban abortion, contraception, and otherwise attempt to keep women barefoot and pregnant in perpetuity fail (by which I mean fail in the same way that overt racism has currently failed, dog whistles notwithstanding), I suspect that in retrospect all such right-wing attempts to keep women subjugated and controlled will be seen as they really are, and any fig leaves about sanctity of life (except when it comes to, er, actually judicially killing people) will be seen as the piss-poor excuses they are.

In the same way that pretty much everyone these days acknowledges that yelling "States' Rights!" was a way of saying "OK, but can we at least carry on lynching coloured people down South?"

[almostwitty]

Alternatively, as birth rates across the "developed" nations decline, there'll be more and more "rewards" for women to give birth, which then slowly turn into expectations, demands etc.

[tsunami-ryuu.livejournal.com]

Gonna give a strictly American answer: death penalty. I sure hope it's a thing of the past 100 years from now.

[jerril]

Taking a crap in fresh potable water, then sending it and about four gallons of other fresh, potable water down some pipes to go sit with a bunch of other crap and pollutants, and then dumping it all out into the water supply.

[drcuriosity]

Out of curiosity, what would you see that replaced with in another 100 years' time?

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

Communicating with inane acronyms such as LOL and ROTFL.

[john-thiess.livejournal.com]

lolwtf? Srsly.

[theweaselking.livejournal.com]

I don't know about you, but I live in a place where it is WAAAAY too cold to go without.

[plantyhamchuk.livejournal.com]

Dentistry/Orthodontics.

[chizzer.livejournal.com]

Is this a serious answer?

[fukurokuju.livejournal.com]

Bloging :P

[jaundicedaye.livejournal.com]

Internal combustion engines.

[almostwitty]

Operating a mobile phone while driving. We've *all* done it, but it's as dangerous as drink-driving, which only assholes and idiots do.

[almostwitty]

A friend of mine once said that just as homosexuality went from societal pariah to socially acceptable within a generation, child sex will do the same.

I'm not entirely sure I agree with him, to say the least...

[kadath.livejournal.com]

People who don't understand the concept of consent scare me.

[goredtorso.livejournal.com]

I see traditional marriage as being seen as quaint, like those nice Mennonite fellows. I don't mean that people won't still have committed relationships, but the idea of huge religious ceremonies and monetary unions will be obsolete.

[torrain.livejournal.com]

Personally, I'm waiting for the first time a human being marries a corporation. They are both legal persons, yes?

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

rounding up of religious solicitors and hunting them down with hounds....

...what? It's not acceptable now? well damn...

[anktastic.livejournal.com]

Religion.
War.
Nationalism and countries in general.

[sparkindarkness.livejournal.com]

Also, not exactloy seen as savage - but writing. In fact we probably won't have to wait 100 years before handwriting is seen as archaic

[kadath.livejournal.com]

Shorthand's already gone, which is a shame, because that would have been really, really useful to know in college for all that note-taking.

Penmanship-qua-penmanship is on its way out already. My handwriting would have been totally unacceptable in my parents' generation, but I get compliments on it regularly.

[jagash.livejournal.com]

Coal
Nationalism
Internal combustion

[sebkha.livejournal.com]

Natural childbirth.

[cleodhna.livejournal.com]

Amen to that. Other animals squip out sprogs like turds with nary a 'meh'. It's just us with our stupidly large braincases and tetchy upright-walking pelvises that have to go through horror so unmentionable that our brains have to manufacture amnesia-inducing chemicals. Natural birth should fall alongside any other correctable unfortunateness, like wisdom teeth.

[frith]

Common now, taboo in 100 years: shaking hands as a form of greeting. Why: electronic communications and home entertainment is isolating us physically, we don't get out as much as we once did.

Do it now, seen as barbaric in 100 years: body modifications, namely tattoos, piercings and unusual hair colours. Why: this is a fad that comes and goes and is not usually adopted by the modern civilized elite.

[krinndnz.livejournal.com]

Mellow greetings (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0106697/quotes), citizen!