It's always bothered me how people use words and references that were once horrifying as commonplace and even to be bragged about nowadays.
I remember when mental illness was something people just didn't joke about, then people started joking about it. Then people would refer to somebody as being "anal retentive" or having obsessive compulsive disorder because they wanted to check the stove before they left the house. It even became a put-down to be called OCD.
Autism terms started to catch on a little bit but because they became a protected class that kind of slid back into the background.
Anorexia is a mental illness that people suffer from but people will joke about somebody looking anorexic when a food dish is made that people just can't get enough.
And those foods are called "crack" like the drug that's based on cocaine or heroin or whatever but I don't hear a lot of people joking about how that food was like heroin.
Binging on things has become something that people joked about more and more over the past few years. It's become almost something people brag about, to binge watch something on a streaming platform because it's so good that you just can't resist it. But I remember when the Harry Potter books were coming out and kids that I knew would stay up all night the night that they got the book just so they could read it all in one night and brag about it the next day. They would also complain about how tired they were but how good the book was.
It's funny how nobody markets their stuff as being as addictive as meth, isn't it? And I wonder when it will become a joke to call something as deadly as fentanyl. Or maybe they do that already, I don't know.
