# What do you want to normalize and why?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086>\
**Category:** In My Humble Opinion\
**Created:** [March 20, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086 "2024-03-20T14:53:37Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![DocCathode](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/doccathode/32/18773_2.png) [@DocCathode](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DocCathode)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086/81 "2024-03-22T17:07:31Z")

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I work from home. They supplied laptop, mouse and headphones.

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**Author:** ![mnemosyne](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c4cdca/32.png) [@mnemosyne](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mnemosyne)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 7:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086/82 "2024-03-22T19:44:24Z")

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I’m also supporting normalizing working from home, with employer supported resources. Employees shouldn’t have to provide anything or risk their privacy for this.

You should be allowed to work from home. You should have suitable equipment to do that work.

My current employer recognizes this (though I’m also geographically remote) and I have a laptop, docking station, mouse,headset, two additional screens and can expense office supplies. As it should be.

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**Author:** ![mbh](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a6a055/32.png) [@mbh](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbh)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2024, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086/83 "2024-03-22T23:33:33Z")

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> [@Chad\_Sudan](#):
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> I would like to normalize women proposing marriage to men.

I have gotten several proposals.

On each occasion, I was buying a lottery ticket. The proposals were were all conditional on winning the jackpot.

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**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanubv.2/32/3260_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUBv.2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUBv.2)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086/84 "2024-03-30T18:00:55Z")

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Single / never been married women who live alone and happen to own cats. It’s normalized in the sense that it happens all the time, but perhaps we can do without “crazy cat lady” stigma.

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**Author:** ![digs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/digs/32/14889_2.png) [@digs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/digs)\
**Post date:** [March 30, 2024, 6:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-do-you-want-to-normalize-and-why/999086/85 "2024-03-30T18:21:21Z")

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> [@MrDibble](#):
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> Nude is our natural condition

I had a friend that kept trying to get me to come to his nude campground for a week every summer. I said I couldn’t go more than half an hour without pockets.

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> [@BobLibDem](#):
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> …what’s the big ass deal if little Johnny learns to say damn when he’s six?

My little Johnny: “Dad, I hear a lot worse at kindergarten.”

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