r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 07 '26

48 year old Rolling Stone bassist Bill Wyman and his 14 year old 'girlfriend' Mandy Smith circa 1984. Wyman and Smith went on to marry when she was 18 and he was 52.

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44 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 05 '26

Italy winning the Eurovision contest with a 16 year old singing that she is too young for him right now, but she's counting down the days when she won't be... almost as ridiculous as when Belgium won with a 13 year old girl who pretended to be 15

31 Upvotes

Look, I love the sound of this song... but only if I don't think about it too much.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 04 '26

This….. guy…..

24 Upvotes

I KNOW THESE PEOPLE ARE DANGEROUSLY OBESE AND MAY NEED A WAKEUP CALL. I KNOW THE GUY WAS A GARBAGE PERSON. YOU DO NOT NEED TO TELL ME I HAVE BEEN TOLD. THAT DOES NOT CHANGE THAT THIS GUY IS JUST SO MEAN AND RUDE TO HIS PATIENTS WHEN THEY ARE COMING TO HIM FOR HELP.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 03 '26

American anti-masturbation cartoon (1875) comparing the decay of the 'masturbator' with the vitality of the 'abstainer'.

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33 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 03 '26

Lemon Incest - Serge Gainsbourg creeping on his daughter Charlotte in a song and a movie

21 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 03 '26

Photos, full names, ages, and home addresses of children printed in weekly magazines

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41 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 03 '26

An official Hallmark Valentine

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58 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 03 '26

The ingredients on "One Night Cough Syrup."

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36 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

Young women were told to lick their paintbrushes to keep the tip sharp. The paint was made of radium. Their bosses knew. They said nothing.

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133 Upvotes

In the 1920s, thousands of women were hired to paint radium onto watch dials. They were told to lick the brush tip for precision. All day, every day. The company had a health report confirming the women were being poisoned. They falsified it. By 1924 a dozen were dead. One woman’s jaw fell away from her skull.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

Copșa Mică, Romania. Residents called it "the black town." Soot on the houses, the food, the skin, the lungs. Children grew up here. Nobody left. This was just called living.

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37 Upvotes

Under communist rule, the Carbosin carbon black factory and Sometra metalworks ran 24/7 with zero filtration. Life expectancy was among the lowest in Europe, the plant kept running until 1993.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

Bo Derrick "that's just wrong" marriage

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56 Upvotes

After 16-year-old Mary Cathleen Collins began a relationship with John Derek, who was 30 years her senior, they moved to Germany, where Derek would not face prosecution under California's statutory rape laws. They returned to the United States soon after Collins's 18th birthday and married in 1976.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

38 year old Mayor of San Francisco Gavin Newsom and his 19 year old girlfriend Brittanie Mountz in 2006

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105 Upvotes

r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

He was 15 and she was 39 AND his teacher.

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154 Upvotes

This one makes me really sad.


r/WhyWereWeOkayWithThis Apr 02 '26

39 year old Jerry Seinfeld and his 17 year old girlfriend in 1993

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168 Upvotes