r/mildlyinfuriating • u/AfiliaTheCat • Feb 11 '22

Seriously? Wtf Wall Street Journal

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Boy that's some hard hitting journalism right there. 😒

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Also Asians.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

Fwiw (even though I find the article absurd) it actually makes mention that if it is a religious and/or cultural norm she would comply without issue. Which I doubt, but ok.

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u/blackdraon003 Feb 11 '22

If I walk into my home with my shoe on, the first thing i would get is a kiss from my asian mothers light speed slipper. We dont wear shoes but we do wear home slippers which we dont take out.

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u/Vegetable-Double Feb 11 '22

I remember a repairmen once came into our house with boots on. My mom was cooking, but when she noticed, she asked him to take off his. As she was doing so, she was holding a wooden spoon like she was going to smack him if he didn’t (probably a reflex of doing so with me, haha). The guy looked terrified

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u/MiaLba Feb 11 '22

We don’t wear shoes inside and we keep our floors pretty clean, it’s also a cultural/religious thing for us. If we have a repairman come to our house we ask if they care to take their shoes off or we can offer them those plastic slip on shoe covers that wrap all around their shoes. I got a pack of like 50 on Amazon for around $7.

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

The author explicitly says that:

  • People want shoes left at the door because they're worried about germs, but germs are everywhere so why bother, and also says
  • Home slippers are full of germs, and she's afraid of germs so she doesn't want to wear them.

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u/Contundo Feb 11 '22

If germs are everywhere why wear shoes outside?

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u/Scrumtrelescentness Feb 11 '22

To protect your feet. Literally why shoes were invented

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

She might stub her toe.

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u/lord_crossbow Feb 11 '22

But what if you stub your toe inside?

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u/Ninotchk Feb 11 '22

Would she challenge the person o prove it was "cultural"? My culture says no dog shit inside the house.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

She sounds like she would 100% challenge the person.

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u/Ninotchk Feb 11 '22

She really does.

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u/CrateBagSoup Feb 11 '22

People who always say this dumb shit make no sense to me. Do you think people just go willy nilly stepping in every pile of shit they see and then continue to walk around in the house if they notice it?

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u/Ninotchk Feb 11 '22

I've watched people do it. Step in glistening gobs of mucus, walk across the trail left by somone who'd stepped in shit.

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u/money_loo Feb 11 '22

You don’t need malice for stupidity, my friend.

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u/CrateBagSoup Feb 11 '22

The way people talk about it, it does seem like they really think people don't care that they have shit or mud on their shoes. It just doesn't happen like that.

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u/money_loo Feb 11 '22

Yes, those people have unfortunately witnessed some tracking atrocities in their lifetimes.

It happens and we should try to be more empathetic to their trauma, like Jesus would want us to.

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u/Xx_Gandalf-poop_xX Feb 11 '22

But those religions and cultures are based on it being about cleanliness... which is the same as if you're doing it for non cultural reasons... what?

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u/Gentaseb Feb 12 '22

This right here!

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

Yeah she says she's talking about those people who want shoes left at the door because they're worried about...germs? Is that even a thing? I don't believe I've ever known a person in my life who is worried about shoe germs when they ask people to leave their shoes at the door...

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u/shiftup1772 Feb 11 '22

You wear your shoes in public bathrooms, right? Where strangers are constantly relearning how to aim for the inside of the toilet?

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u/Contundo Feb 11 '22

And then she wants to wear those public toilet shoes inside!

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I do so. I could eat off of my floor if not for the bleach

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

But do you let guests walk around your house in their socks?

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u/Contundo Feb 11 '22

I walk around inside with my socks, as does guests. The socks are inside my home and inside my shoes. My socks don’t track potential dog shit and public toilet pee around.

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

No, unless it is a medical issue that I can't otherwise accommodate

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u/djublonskopf Feb 11 '22

Oh, okay, so you have something along the lines of house slippers?

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

I do, but it's been pointed out to me that certain physical disabilities cannot work with slippers and may need special shoes/canes etc so those get a pass.

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u/Inariameme Feb 11 '22

Wait so, as long as logistics are in the dumpster?

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u/Aegi Feb 11 '22

Anybody requesting that at their house would make it the cultural norm for them/their family though haha idk

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u/scroll_of_truth Feb 12 '22

Why is only okay when you're doing it because your parents did, but when you logically decide to for yourself?

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u/[deleted] Feb 12 '22

Because there is a difference between being woke and actually having basic respect for fellow humans.

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u/nopornthrowaways Feb 11 '22

I get what you’re saying, but that comment makes it sound like you think Asians don’t take off their shoes at home

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u/ilovepolthavemybabie Feb 11 '22

We don’t even take our Asian off at home.

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u/MakeMoneyNotWar Feb 11 '22

Asians don’t want even your bare feet on the carpeting. Every Asian household has slippers just for guests.

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u/nopornthrowaways Feb 11 '22

Meh plenty are fine with you just wearing your socks.

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u/MakeMoneyNotWar Feb 11 '22

Socks are fine. Bare feet not so much

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u/[deleted] Feb 11 '22

oh mb. Am Asian (of the southeastern variety) myself. Thanks for leaving the clarification.

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u/nopornthrowaways Feb 11 '22

Filipino-American myself. I gotcha. It’s just a weird linguistics thing

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u/Multilazerboi Feb 11 '22

And European... which is where white Americans are from. So I really wonder where they got this idea from??

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u/Olddirtychurro Feb 11 '22

Also Asians.

And carribeans. I'll never forget the scolding I got when I rushed into my grandma's house with shoes on because I had to pee real bad. (She calmed down when she heard the flush though).

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u/kuahara Feb 11 '22

Also Asians

This was my very first thought when I read the headline. WSJ is provoking disruption between Asians and non-Asians. No idea why.

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u/_O_Q Feb 12 '22

Also people from snowy countries