My aunt was born in the 1940s, and was something of an old fashioned feminist. She didn't know why wasn't allowed to wear pants, or why she had to wait for the man to make the first move, etc. She tells a story about a man who ditched her at a dance once because she didn't know the "latest dance." Apparently in the 1950s, some idiot was always inventing a new dance that everyone _just had follow_. The young man was so embarrassed that he left her at the dance.
I still think about this story, and think about how awful it would have been to live in the 40s. There always has been social pressure and change, but the "everyone's got to learn new stupid dances all the time" sort of pressure feels especially awful.
This really reminds me of the last 10-20 years in technology. "Hey, some dumb assholes have built some new technology, and you don't really have the choice to ignore it. You either adopt it too, or are left behind."