Ask Lemmy

Hard work will always lead to success, which is why anyone can be president.

Some really solid teachers in high school were able to cover why that was bullshit just by proper framing of the material.

"When you grow up, you can be anything you want to be."

I wanna be a homeowner. 🫩

With liberty and and justice for all.

My health class was taught by our gym teacher and she was terrible at it. Some points I remembered being taught:

• Hypertension is when the hamstrings of your legs shrink because you don't stretch every morning. Hypertension can kill you, so make sure you stretch.
• All drugs make you hallucinate. Every single one of them. Usually dragons. People die on drugs because they're trying to get away from the dragons and jump off buildings or run into traffic.
• Babies have super suction power which they use to breastfeed. An adult cannot get milk from a breast because they can't suck hard enough.

I learned these were wrong after starting secondary school where biology was taught by someone who studied biology. Except for the breastfeeding thing. That one was through personal research.

1. there is a god

2. race is a biological reality

3. men and women are fundamentally different

4. Just world theory

5. America is a force for good in the world

6. The Enlightenment makes Western culture superior

7. The post-war boom where a single income could buy a hose/ car/ and college was a universal reality and not exclusive to white men.

8. Guns make you safe.

If I accept this guy, who was born by immaculate conception - instigated by his Father [who ALSO KILLED HIM] by way of an Angel - instead of just creating him - as he did THE REST of EVERYTHING ...... His Father, the all knowing, all seeing who LOVES ALL HIS CHILDREN will accept me into his kingdom. This guy, who made everything and is capable of everything and anything, who allows death and disease and war and suffering doesn't just make life easy for all of who he created. What bull.

• It's illegal to turn the interior light on in the car while driving.
• If you make that face, it'll stay like that.
• Sitting too close to the TV will give you square eyes
• If you lie, you get spots on your tongue (would then ask to show you your tongue when they asked you if you telling the truth)
• The Square box in that corner (the maximize window button on a PC) is a camera and we can watch what you do.

• Men are filthy because they're obsessed with sex and boobs (meanwhile women are insanely more obsessed with sex and boobs)
• Men who think women are attractive or look at them are fundamentally pigs (even when a woman is going out of her way to attract the male gaze)
• Men are purely obsessed with looks and are to blame for women's competition over mating displays, and the surrounding products/messaging (most adult women confess in a moment of truth that other women perpetrate the worst of the bullying and thus hold this system up)
• Men are abusers and women are victims. It is not possible for a woman to perpetrate abuse against a man or another woman. There is never violence in the same sex relationships, women don't do that. It is not possible for a woman to hurt a child, only men do that.
• All women are naturally trustworthy and of upstanding moral character (the "women are wonderful" fallacy)
• Men are by nature unfaithful (meanwhile equal distribution of unfaithfulness among genders, it fluctuates across age groups with older women being particularly egregious)
• Your purpose as a man on this Earth is to make a woman happy and give her children and supply resources
• A man is a failure if he prioritizes happiness and personal fulfillment over earning power
• The highest professions for women are teacher or comfort nurse, never doctors or scientists or engineers or anyone with strong credentials, education or career portability
• A woman's job is to make her man happy when he comes home from making the money
• If a woman is not servile and impeccable at all times, she is completely worthless
• Men are the warriors, it is their job to protect everybody and be maimed or die if necessary. Fear and self-preservation are weaknesses
• Everything about women is good, but as a man, you should never embody any of the traits which are considered feminine, and you must never be sensitive or you're a f....ot
• Men must to have giant penises, but if you do, shut the fuck up and tell no one. It is socially acceptable for others to continuously comment on man's penis but a man is a complete piece of filth if he talks about it himself
• Men who are interested in sex are disgusting perverts
• A man's penis is the worst evil on the planet
• Most men are violent rapists who are looking for any excuse to harm a woman or child if they can get away with it
• A woman can do anything a man can do (no, because biology is a thing)
• Women are fragile and weak and must be protected and cared for; they don't have the essential attributes that men do
• Every societal injustice is directly the result of the male gender, not capitalists
• Men are not victims of capitalists, they are purely the beneficiaries

Edit: Before you reply I want you to know something. I don't care to hear your cherry-picking pushback. These are the lies I was told.

My parent’s friend told me that wind was caused by trees swaying and I looked pretty stupid when I proudly told my class this fact as a high school senior.

Oh boy, where do I start? I was raised by racist crack and meth addicts in the rural southern US.

Black people hate white people.

Black people are trying to replace white people on a genetic level (Great Replacement Theory).

Black people have smaller skulls and thus, smaller brains than white people, which makes them more ape-like and prone to aggression.

Black people are taller, run faster, and jump higher than white people because they have three extra muscles in their knee area. Basketball was a white people's sport before they set the slaves free.

Black people drink and play loud music all the time because "that's their culture".

All black people are lazy moochers who cheat the welfare system for free money to drink and smoke crack all day because they feel entitled to it after slavery.

Black people actually liked slavery back in the day because they had a decent, simple life. Many of them begged to go back to the plantations after they were freed because they had nowhere else to go.

The world was a better place when black people were slaves because at least then, they worked. Now, you have them all sitting around, collecting welfare, having white people pay their bills for them. If you think about it, white people are the slaves now.

Just a little crack is fine, as long as you're not an addict like those black people.

Beer is for white people. It doesn't get you too drunk so you can still go to work. Black people don't work, that's why they drink liquor.

Birds have wings because they're supposed to fly, that's what they do. Women have wombs because they're supposed to have babies, that's what they do.

Men are supposed to have as many babies as possible because God says to be fruitful and multiply. But women are only supposed to have their husband's babies to keep the bloodline pure.

I'm sure there are more, those are just the ones I haven't repressed.

"This will go on your permanent record".

Outrageous lie back in the 80s.

Unfortunately true today with the internet and the surveillance state.

The classic "if you eat watermelon seeds, one will grow in your stomach."

my father said you are gay if you don't like sports and you read books.

The USA is the land of the free

My parents were super against lying to kids. We'd hear parents in front of us at mcdonalds tell their kids they couldn't have french fries because they were all out and we'd ask "is that true?" And mom and dad would assure us no, it's not true, those parents are just afraid of telling their kids no.

I remember realizing at like 8 that "don't swallow gum because it can't be digested and will just accumulate in your gut" can't be true.

Raised by a hard right parent. Was told that outside the US, every country was basically third world. Even the UK, people there still living in the mud in medieval times under a tyrannical monarchy or some shit.

A more humorous lie I was told was if you swallowed chewing gum, you'd blow bubbles out of your butt. A family friend who told me that said it happened to their dog.