15 Historical Overreactions (To Everyday Things)

People will lose their minds over the most ridiculous things.
15 Historical Overreactions (To Everyday Things)

Remember when Facebook went and changed its layout and everybody lost their goddamn minds about it? But then everyone realized how dumb they were acting and got over it? Well, turns out that type of overreaction is nothing new, and things we now enjoy every day were subject to this type of stupid hysteria.

From umbrellas to coffee to bikinis, stuff that we encounter every day and think of as very inoffensive or controversial was once anything but. Yep, people are idiots. We can say that because we have the brains but honestly, what kind of culture loses its mind over soda fountains?

And that's far from the only instance - come take a walk through the annals of surprisingly not so long ago when reading in bed was thought to put you at risk of ‘serious moral failing.' Boy, so many authors today would have been ruined with just the beach as an approved place to read at night.

In the 19th century, reading in bed was seen as immoral and dangerous. One newspaper told readers to beware of ThE most awful danger and calamity, a
15 Historical Overreactions (To Everyday Things)

Umbrellas

The first man to use an umbrella in London was publicly ridiculed. In the early 1750, Jonas Hanway was subjected to ridicule and had trash thrown at h
The early modern bikini was SO scandalous its creator, Louis Reard, couldn't find a model willing to wear it, SO he hired a stripper to do it. Wearing
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WHEN SHOPPING CARTS WERE FIRST INVENTED IN 1937 BY SYLVAN GOLDMAN, THEY WERE MET WITH RESISTANCE MEN VIEWED THEM As CUNMANLYN AND WOMEN WERE REMINDED
Many people thought that nighttime air was poisonous up until the 1900s. People were scared to even go outside during the night, some didn't even want
People thoughT compulsory education was UN-AMERICAN Early 20th century detractors argued that forcing children into schools by law violated American l
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People hated the automobile in the 1920s... because they were worried it encouraged teenage promiscuity. Having a car was thought to make teenagers le
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England

15 Historical Overreactions (To Everyday Things)
In 1878, the British Government looked into Edison's new invention, the lightbulb. They concluded that the idea was: Good enough for our transatlanti
THOUGH COMIC BOOKS ARE CURRENTLY A CULTURAL INSTITUTION, POST- DEPRESSION AMERICATHOUGHT THEY WERE PURE EVIL, AND THE ROOT OF ALL JUVENILE DELINQUENCY
During the Prohibition era, moral guardians were against allowing teenagers to drink soda pop, warning that soft drinks at a soda fountain were a gate

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