5 Reasons The Victorian Era Was Utter Insanity | Answers With Joe

The Victorian Era was an age of new discoveries and technologies that changed everything about the way we live. It basically created the modern world as we know it. But that time of transition also led to some very, very weird ideas and dangers that seem baffling today.

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[scarysara]

"If a bird crashes into a window; it means that someone _has_ died."

Yeah, the _bird_ !

[eastcoastla]

That description of the Victorians being trapped between an old life and new technology is exactly the way I feel about these times that we live.

[charlottedog]

My granny took pictures of the dead. They were polaroids. Just sprinkled throughout her picture albums. When she died at 94 in '96 we were all so pleased when a little old lady went up to her casket and took a picture of her. It wasnt a polaroid. But we know that was an important moment for her.

[MegCazalet]

Parents definitely got attached to their children, no matter how young or how many died. John Evelyn, who lived a century and a half prior, wrote a very moving diary entry about the death of an infant son. I think the pictures of dead babies also shows a love, not a fake sentimentality. I think there’s a lot of mythology or misunderstandings about the Victorians.

[Itriedtakennames]

I sew, and although dresses look “fancier” - a kids dress is much, much easier to make than a tiny shirt and pants. Given how fast kids grow, how hard they are on clothes and potty training— the dress thing for toddlers made a lot of sense.

[shookings]

Gender reveal party: *shows wildfire*
That's a dark joke, dude.
Keep that shit up.

[williambliss]

I may be one of the last people alive whose parents were both Victorians. I was born late in their lives as far as child bearing goes and grew up with various Victorian era concepts held by my parents. It took me well into adulthood to figure out where they were coming from. It's been an interesting trip.

[oneghost]

The death thing in Victorian England especially always interested me. I had a humanities teacher once who said that we (being people in western culture) go through sort of cycles. I can't remember the length of time but, he said that if you through history we go through periods of death positivity and sexual repression, to sexual positivity and a sort of, death repression "I don't think about it" kind of phase. Nowhere is that clearer than the Victorian era.

[Dan_Ben_Michael]

I’m also utterly fascinated with the Victorian era. I love the clothing, the photos, the technology, the architecture, and just the general aesthetic of the era. My grandparents were born at the tail end of it and they lived in an old spooky Victorian home and everything about the aesthetic of it was spooky AF.

[Alesha_Lewer]

The Victorian era was absolutely nuts. I’ve learned a lot about it and I can honestly say... it was absolutely not a time I would have survived. I love learning about it, but I’m glad I live now

[nidgithm]

the victorian era is very interesting to me, but also kind of terrifying. it makes me worry about if there are any things that are currently used a lot that we don't know are dangerous and won't realize is dangerous until it's far too late. i know there are more rules in place now, and they're testing things more carefully before letting it be used, but still. i mean things like that have happened even more recently, such as with smoking: a few decades ago they didn't even know smoking was bad for you, so everyone did it in their house in their car etc

[blanchequizno]

Actually, John Snow convinced the mayor of the town to remove the handle from the Broad Street pump *and truck in water for the people who used the pump*. They did not have to go elsewhere to get water. Also, the Broad Street pump's major failing was that it took water from the Thames *downstream*, where more sewage had had a chance to flow in from sewers and cesspits; the pumps upstream were not associated with the high rates of cholera cases as the downstream pumps were. But otherwise, good show. Very enjoyable; now subscribed.

[DonyaLane]

My biggest take-away from this video is that the human experience has mostly been a wretched, horrific, insufferable nightmare for the majority of the people who have walked the earth. Even my pampered pets have lived a better quality life than most humans throughout history have lived ! Watching content like this reminds me of how fortunate and blessed I am, to have been born in the 1960s in the United States. Of course, there have been struggles and hard times, but at least, I've never known a time without proper sanitation and sewage treatment! I've always had air conditioning, new shoes, clean water, and access to antibiotics, etc. Even the poorest people I've ever known still had a TV, microwave and phones. And none of them ever had to sleep on a rope! Count your blessings, folks! Be grateful.

[ladysaraofinsomnia]

It's not entirely accurate to say that parents didn't form attachments to their children. They certainly did, and mourned just as much when they died. This is a common misconception that I have heard many times before. They loved their children just as much as we do today, however they did so also with the expectation that many of them would not make it.

[dcdad]

Speaking of lead and mercury, they were ingredients in women's makeup. Also, there was a fear of being buried alive. You slip into a coma and opps, he's dead. So some graves were outfitted with a bell with a string on a staff above the grave and the string was tied to the hand of the deceased.

[laughing-cat]

Commenting on the part about Victorian toddlers' dress: I often wonder if it's also much easier to deal with diapers when the toddler is wearing a dress. Snaps weren't invented until 1885, so other than making toddler drawers with button crotches (which would probably be slow going) a dress really sounds like the more functional piece of baby and toddler clothing.

[dustin]

I'm glad you talked about the similarities between then and now. The more I look into it the more I realize we are going through a change right now as great as they went through, we just can't see it because we are in it.

[AnnaCurser]

"Sleeping in a Coffin is a big step up from hanging over a rope" - isnt a sentence I thought Id Ever Hear!

[cytherians]

Those periods where food, clothing, housing, and safety becomes commonplace for a notable segment of society brings about some pretty astonishing creativity, innovations, and... sometimes strangeness. I'm so glad you're onto these tracks, Joe. You do an amazing job of deep diving into them with captivating content and presentation. You are creating material that is so good, it really could be taught in high school and college classrooms!

[shawizz]

You had me at "TidePod" 😂I love how you are not "over funny" with cheesy jokes, but rather appropriately pointing out reality in a funny way.
I really enjoyed your video, the information, and the delivery. Well done! I"m always excited to find a new YouTuber I can look forward to enjoying.