Unpopular Opinions

[AngloDoom]

#1:
I personally think we should totally abandon all concept of gendered identity. There's nothing to be proud about for being a 'manly man' or a 'feminine woman', in my eyes. If I'm male and I want to wear a skirt, why should I feel embarrassed? If a little girl plays about with solider toys and cuts her hair short, why do people have to jokingly refer to her a a 'future butch lesbian'?
I want to be able to cry without being mocked just as much as some of my female friends want to be able to get into auto-engineering without being considered some sort of hidden man.


#2:
Also, I think that people should be a lot more open to having lots of sexual relationships at once. If you want to have a relationship with one person, that is fine, but if you or your partner cheats then it's a sign that perhaps you should just go out and have lots of sex with lots of people, but in a responsible manner. I don't see why anyone should feel ashamed about enjoying lots of sex.


#3:
The Dark Knight was a lacklustre film in every scene that didn't revolve around The Joker, at least in my opinion.

-I dislike Bronies "oh look at me I'm defying traditional gender roles I must be so whimsically eccentric". Dude its twenty-freaking-twelve no-one worth listening to cares about that any more, all you are doing is liking a kids TV show, which is fine, but that's ALL that you are doing.

Just noticed this one and hoped you wouldn't mind expanding on this point?

Every single person I know who has openly admitted they like My Little Pony has, at some point, come under ridicule and had their sexuality thrown into question. I think one of the best parts about that show is that it made it more acceptable for grown men to actually watch what they want, without feeling ashamed. I know I'm certainly not as brave about what I like to watch as some Brony-types are.

Would you really suggest gender roles have no affect on us now we've reached twenty-twelve? I, personally, feel the sting of these gender roles almost every week for wanting to do simple things like hug a friend, talk about my feelings, or consider a career in nursing.

 

[ItsAChiaotzu]

I don't think paedophiles are (necessarily) evil.

Here we go:

The obsession with correct grammar and spelling linked to the intelligence of point being made is just stupid. I'm a smarty pants, but my vocabulary writes checks my spelling can't cash. The english language is a mess so cut people some slack as long as the meaning gets through. Now if it is an utter mess... like text speak... then you can ask for clarification or just ignore it. But the people who take the time to just belittle and degrade someone for spelling and grammar are dicks, plan and simple.

I think that this (http://techcitement.com/culture/the-best-birth-control-in-the-world-is-for-men/) birth control should be injected into every 14 year old boy and maintained until people make the choice to have children. Too many children are had by accident before people are mentally, emotionally, and financially able to care for them.

Sex ed should start earlier and totally be more in-depth. Homosexuality should totally be in the discussion.

I think that everything can be measured and quantified and, as we continue on this path, there is less and less space for deities to hide. Science and religion are at odds. Science is about asking questions. Religion is about accepting answers.

Everyone is an atheist, but true atheist just stop believing in the last god or gods. (Christians don't believe in Thor, Hindus don't believe in Yahweh etc, etc.)

You can criticize Israel and not be an anti-semite.

Geek/nerd culture is overly exclusive. It has taken the ostracism from high school and internalized it. If someone doesn't know the entirety of DC comic continuity, looking down your nose at them doesn't make you a cool geek. It makes you a-hole.

And dubs are better than subs. (I like to do multiple things while watching tv, and subs mean I can't multitask as well)

I don't mean to be a douche here, but that isn't just unpopular, that is actually wrong.
Atheist means you do not believe in (that's the a- part) a god (that would be the theist part).

If you'd said, everyone doesn't believe in most of the Gods that there are then you'd be correct, but as it stands, the distinction between atheist and "true atheist" is one that you've entirely fabricated.

 

[Dtox333]

I hate the gay community. All of it. Absolutely, unapologetically hate it. Why, you ask?

THEY STOLE GOD-DAMNED RAINBOWS. ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLES!!!

I mean, the rainbow was always kind of a fruity thing to like, but it never meant straight-up gay until the gay community adopted it as their symbol. I don't hate gay people, and I'm not against any of their causes, but seriously, fuck them for ruining rainbows. Fuck them all! You can't just "claim" the visual light spectrum! You can't!

Another, more rational unpopular opinion I have is that people are people, no matter who they are. They deserve a chance, even if their government is evil, or their religion has a few whackjobs that make said religion seem crazy. Dividing the world into factions, or even worse, enemies and non-enemies, causes nothing but strife. You may think this shouldn't be an unpopular opinion, and I agree, but it is, especially in my line of work (the US military). Now I can understand why some of my coworkers have adopted a "from enemy country = enemy" mentality and I don't hold it against them. I just hope they'll learn to see things the way I do in time. But this doesn't just apply to the military, it applies to anyone who sees someone with a different opinion or just someone who works for someone with a different opinion and thinks "that person is the enemy." Things are never so black and white.

I detest the pride community because now when it's not something special to be gay anymore, no one cares if boys like boys, they get their panties in a bunch and try to make themselves stand out and be a minority. Despite what those who came before them tried to do, make society accept them. fucking stupid.

unpopular opinion number two, I think the police/military should be allowed to just shoot every damn gang member they see, just carpet bomb their fucking hideouts. They can't pussy around these people, just fucking shoot them.

I have to say I disagree with your comments on the gay community.

I see a lot of people talk about their annoyance with how the gay community flaunts its "pride," but I feel it's justified given the gravity of the opposition that they're faced with.

There is constant discrimination against them, and where it is FAR better than it used to be say...a decade or so ago, there is still call to show people that being gay is not only alright, but something to be happy about, just like being anything else.

When I see a bunch of religiously fanatical people walking up and down sidewalks and streets with signs saying "god hates fags," and how it's "wrong" to be gay, I silently cheer on in my head to the gay people to shout them down with even greater ferocity (figuratively speaking of course).

If the haters want to shout, you gotta shout louder, that's how I see it.

This is probably a regional question, in Sweden where I live, only a small small handfull of nazis (which I think we should be able to shoot on sight) actually care about about gay people anymore. Yet, when pride came to town, their motto was essentially to secularize themselves, to make it controversial to be gay again. That's just retarded.

That does sound odd...over here people just want to be generally accepted without their sexuality or gender association being a detrimental factor in their social mobility.

I can't say that for ALL gays however, I'm sure there are a handful who feel the need to STAY different, based on the fact that they're treated differently, however for the most part I believe the message is just being generally accepted, and to get the fanatics off of their high horses and out of the stone age.

 

[Vivi22]

THEY don't have financial security?! Forgive me if I haven't had the intricacies of the Occupy movement explained to me before by a person who actually holds them, but if they are going to complain about people being fantastically wealthy, then they better not be fantastically wealthy as well (which relative to 95% of people alive, they are [95% is partially made up, it could be closer to 90%]) or they are hypocrites. Is that argument invalid somehow? That if these people, who live in America, are complaining about a wealth inequality, then they should be working to shrink all inequalities in wealth?

It seems to me like the Occupy movement is mainly about people wanting less for other so they can have more FOR THEMSELVES. At least that's how I've seen it portrayed.

How do you see the movement?

TO me the movement is the protest of the government and their interaction with the top 1%.

Some of the top 1% pick a politician and fund him. That politician does well with good funding and gets some power. That politician uses that power to benefit the 1% with laws to continue recieving funding. The cycle continues and the voter is kept out of the loop. And maybe if they didnt get enough funding, promise more for the 1% so that next time you do.

It seems fundamentally unfair to me.

This essentially. The big problem is that the redistribution of wealth in the US largely flows up, not down. Corporations and the rich get the tax breaks. Corporations get huge subsidies. Corporations lobby government and fund candidates to change laws to their benefit, and more often than not are successful.

There is a tremendous wealth and political inequality there which is presently self perpetuating, and growing rather than shrinking, as more and more people are forced to live in poverty. Hell, I think the statistics for the US are that there's something like 1 in 4 or 5 children live in poverty now. How can a first world country have 20-25% of children living in poverty and not acknowledge that something is fundamentally and systemically wrong there? Unfortunately some will try to pass poverty off as being the result of people not being willing to work too which doesn't help. There is certainly some of that which goes on, but it's nothing more than an attempt to blame the victim so they don't have to admit that there's a real problem there which should be obvious to anyone who paid attention to all of the jobs that vanished since 2008.

And that may actually the biggest cause of frustration. The economy was driven into the ground by politicians and the 1%, and it's largely everyone else who paid for it. I can't blame anyone who lost their job or took a pay cut to keep their job, or had to get a new lower paying job because of the actions of a few for being completely disenfranchised and demanding change. There is a massive problem here, and no, there's certainly no easy solution, but continuing the status quo isn't the answer, and ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

 

[TwiZtah]

I hate the gay community. All of it. Absolutely, unapologetically hate it. Why, you ask?

THEY STOLE GOD-DAMNED RAINBOWS. ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLES!!!

I mean, the rainbow was always kind of a fruity thing to like, but it never meant straight-up gay until the gay community adopted it as their symbol. I don't hate gay people, and I'm not against any of their causes, but seriously, fuck them for ruining rainbows. Fuck them all! You can't just "claim" the visual light spectrum! You can't!

Another, more rational unpopular opinion I have is that people are people, no matter who they are. They deserve a chance, even if their government is evil, or their religion has a few whackjobs that make said religion seem crazy. Dividing the world into factions, or even worse, enemies and non-enemies, causes nothing but strife. You may think this shouldn't be an unpopular opinion, and I agree, but it is, especially in my line of work (the US military). Now I can understand why some of my coworkers have adopted a "from enemy country = enemy" mentality and I don't hold it against them. I just hope they'll learn to see things the way I do in time. But this doesn't just apply to the military, it applies to anyone who sees someone with a different opinion or just someone who works for someone with a different opinion and thinks "that person is the enemy." Things are never so black and white.

I detest the pride community because now when it's not something special to be gay anymore, no one cares if boys like boys, they get their panties in a bunch and try to make themselves stand out and be a minority. Despite what those who came before them tried to do, make society accept them. fucking stupid.

unpopular opinion number two, I think the police/military should be allowed to just shoot every damn gang member they see, just carpet bomb their fucking hideouts. They can't pussy around these people, just fucking shoot them.

I have to say I disagree with your comments on the gay community.

I see a lot of people talk about their annoyance with how the gay community flaunts its "pride," but I feel it's justified given the gravity of the opposition that they're faced with.

There is constant discrimination against them, and where it is FAR better than it used to be say...a decade or so ago, there is still call to show people that being gay is not only alright, but something to be happy about, just like being anything else.

When I see a bunch of religiously fanatical people walking up and down sidewalks and streets with signs saying "god hates fags," and how it's "wrong" to be gay, I silently cheer on in my head to the gay people to shout them down with even greater ferocity (figuratively speaking of course).

If the haters want to shout, you gotta shout louder, that's how I see it.

This is probably a regional question, in Sweden where I live, only a small small handfull of nazis (which I think we should be able to shoot on sight) actually care about about gay people anymore. Yet, when pride came to town, their motto was essentially to secularize themselves, to make it controversial to be gay again. That's just retarded.

That does sound odd...over here people just want to be generally accepted without their sexuality or gender association being a detrimental factor in their social mobility.

I can't say that for ALL gays however, I'm sure there are a handful who feel the need to STAY different, based on the fact that they're treated differently, however for the most part I believe the message is just being generally accepted, and to get the fanatics off of their high horses and out of the stone age.

Oh, slight mistake from my part. It's that one percent of the gay people that has to communicate their sexuality, obnoxiously, at a maximum of 5 seconds after you meet them that has this problem with sexuality being a non-issue. The rest of the gays just want to go on with their lives.

I should have said this from the beginning. I don't care if you like to put an inflatable hippo in your urine canal, if it floats your boat. However, don't cry when no one cares, hence, my detest for that one percent.

 

[the abyss gazes also]

This essentially. The big problem is that the redistribution of wealth in the US largely flows up, not down. Corporations and the rich get the tax breaks. Corporations get huge subsidies. Corporations lobby government and fund candidates to change laws to their benefit, and more often than not are successful.

There is a tremendous wealth and political inequality there which is presently self perpetuating, and growing rather than shrinking, as more and more people are forced to live in poverty. Hell, I think the statistics for the US are that there's something like 1 in 4 or 5 children live in poverty now. How can a first world country have 20-25% of children living in poverty and not acknowledge that something is fundamentally and systemically wrong there? Unfortunately some will try to pass poverty off as being the result of people not being willing to work too which doesn't help. There is certainly some of that which goes on, but it's nothing more than an attempt to blame the victim so they don't have to admit that there's a real problem there which should be obvious to anyone who paid attention to all of the jobs that vanished since 2008.

And that may actually the biggest cause of frustration. The economy was driven into the ground by politicians and the 1%, and it's largely everyone else who paid for it. I can't blame anyone who lost their job or took a pay cut to keep their job, or had to get a new lower paying job because of the actions of a few for being completely disenfranchised and demanding change. There is a massive problem here, and no, there's certainly no easy solution, but continuing the status quo isn't the answer, and ignoring the problem won't make it go away.

One of the main issues, especially here in America, is that we have a narrative that by sheer will and determination you can pull yourself up by your own boot straps and make it big. Problem is, that isn't really the case. Some people do, but there are a lot of tumblers that have to line up. Some people get it at the right time. many just flame out.

As proof that hard work doesn't pay I site the case of The Working Poor vs. Jersey Shore. We have people working two jobs and living out of their cars and the Jersey Shore folk are racking it in for doing what now?

 

[Dtox333]

Goddamn, you guys are edgy as fuck.

I wish I could be as cool as most of you.

*adjusts hipster glasses*

Well then, guess that's going to be a wish that wont come true.

 

[Dtox333]

I hate the gay community. All of it. Absolutely, unapologetically hate it. Why, you ask?

THEY STOLE GOD-DAMNED RAINBOWS. ASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSHOOOOOOOOOOOOOLES!!!

I mean, the rainbow was always kind of a fruity thing to like, but it never meant straight-up gay until the gay community adopted it as their symbol. I don't hate gay people, and I'm not against any of their causes, but seriously, fuck them for ruining rainbows. Fuck them all! You can't just "claim" the visual light spectrum! You can't!

Another, more rational unpopular opinion I have is that people are people, no matter who they are. They deserve a chance, even if their government is evil, or their religion has a few whackjobs that make said religion seem crazy. Dividing the world into factions, or even worse, enemies and non-enemies, causes nothing but strife. You may think this shouldn't be an unpopular opinion, and I agree, but it is, especially in my line of work (the US military). Now I can understand why some of my coworkers have adopted a "from enemy country = enemy" mentality and I don't hold it against them. I just hope they'll learn to see things the way I do in time. But this doesn't just apply to the military, it applies to anyone who sees someone with a different opinion or just someone who works for someone with a different opinion and thinks "that person is the enemy." Things are never so black and white.

I detest the pride community because now when it's not something special to be gay anymore, no one cares if boys like boys, they get their panties in a bunch and try to make themselves stand out and be a minority. Despite what those who came before them tried to do, make society accept them. fucking stupid.

unpopular opinion number two, I think the police/military should be allowed to just shoot every damn gang member they see, just carpet bomb their fucking hideouts. They can't pussy around these people, just fucking shoot them.

I have to say I disagree with your comments on the gay community.

I see a lot of people talk about their annoyance with how the gay community flaunts its "pride," but I feel it's justified given the gravity of the opposition that they're faced with.

There is constant discrimination against them, and where it is FAR better than it used to be say...a decade or so ago, there is still call to show people that being gay is not only alright, but something to be happy about, just like being anything else.

When I see a bunch of religiously fanatical people walking up and down sidewalks and streets with signs saying "god hates fags," and how it's "wrong" to be gay, I silently cheer on in my head to the gay people to shout them down with even greater ferocity (figuratively speaking of course).

If the haters want to shout, you gotta shout louder, that's how I see it.

This is probably a regional question, in Sweden where I live, only a small small handfull of nazis (which I think we should be able to shoot on sight) actually care about about gay people anymore. Yet, when pride came to town, their motto was essentially to secularize themselves, to make it controversial to be gay again. That's just retarded.

That does sound odd...over here people just want to be generally accepted without their sexuality or gender association being a detrimental factor in their social mobility.

I can't say that for ALL gays however, I'm sure there are a handful who feel the need to STAY different, based on the fact that they're treated differently, however for the most part I believe the message is just being generally accepted, and to get the fanatics off of their high horses and out of the stone age.

Oh, slight mistake from my part. It's that one percent of the gay people that has to communicate their sexuality, obnoxiously, at a maximum of 5 seconds after you meet them that has this problem with sexuality being a non-issue. The rest of the gays just want to go on with their lives.

I should have said this from the beginning. I don't care if you like to put an inflatable hippo in your urine canal, if it floats your boat. However, don't cry when no one cares, hence, my detest for that one percent.

That's much more understandable, and I fully agree.

 

[Naeras]

I think the games industry is at least as entitled as their consumerbase is.

I don't think Nickelback is anywhere near as bad as the internet would have it.

 

[Ziame]

I hate nihilists.

I detest people who actively impose their viewes on others (raging atheists, religious people).

I think that fashion is made by and for people who have too good lives.

Music isn't necessary to live. You can live without, and guess what? Nothing will happen!

Also I despise people who constantly have their ears plugged by earphones. (Mind you I play piano and I like music, I just don't think it's really required to constantly be listening to it)

I think that art ruins everything. All those artsy movies, artsy paintings screaming "ask me what it means" l'arte por l'arte and all that shit is ridiculous.

I think sci-fi is superior to fantasy.

Dragon Ball Z is the best anime ever.

GT isn't half that bad.

Deus Ex is shit, while Human Revolution is awesome.

Mark Meer's acting is what I would expect from a elite commando/experienced war man and he is superior to Jennifer Hale.

KOTOR's combat system is shit. No, whole KOTOR is shit. HK-47 not included, he is awesome.

Ewan McGregor is the best actor ever but he stars in such shitty films, Christ.

 

[malestrithe]

The King's Speech was a blatant rip off of She's All That. Both movies share the same plot, same characters and both even have that "Was I a Game to you" speech. Just because one was oscar bait and another was a teenage rom com changes nothings.

Star Wars fans need to get over their hurt feelings over the special editions. That happened 12 years ago. Since the movies were released, you should have changed your jobs a few times, got married, finished your degree, traveled the world, and possibly have a kid or two. You know, a bunch of stuff more important than arguing about whether or not Han Fired First.

As a gaming company, Valve is overrated.

If you had some sort of disposable income back in 1996, you would have hated Fallout 1 and 2 fir being too hard.

 

[New Frontiersman]

An unpopular opinion? Hmmmm...

Okay I got one!

I think Hitler was right!

... about his aggressive anti-smoking campaigns.

Yeah. It's a thing [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-tobacco_movement_in_Nazi_Germany].

In all seriousness I can't really think of any opinions I have that are that unpopular...
actually considering some of the antisemitic and racist reasoning behind the Nazi anti-smoking campaign supporting it may be quite unpopular. I don't really know.

 

[Vivi22]

One of the main issues, especially here in America, is that we have a narrative that by sheer will and determination you can pull yourself up by your own boot straps and make it big. Problem is, that isn't really the case. Some people do, but there are a lot of tumblers that have to line up. Some people get it at the right time. many just flame out.

As proof that hard work doesn't pay I site the case of The Working Poor vs. Jersey Shore. We have people working two jobs and living out of their cars and the Jersey Shore folk are racking it in for doing what now?

Couldn't agree more honestly. Hard work and determination are certainly important for being successful a lot of the time, but they alone will not make you rich. And sometimes you don't need them at all to become rich such as with the Jersey Shore people. There's only so much room at the top and most people will never get their no matter how smart they are or how hard they work. There's a great deal of luck involved, knowing the right people, having the right idea at the right time, being able to network and get people to buy into that idea. And, of course, having money to begin with only makes it easier for people to go on to even bigger and greater things. If you weren't born a genius, a social wizard or wealthy then you have a lot of things working against you. If you weren't born any of those things then you're really left to hope for a lucky break. It's sad that many fall for this as well. They'd rather just continue with what they're doing in the hopes it pays off someday rather than try and change it.

 

[verdant monkai]

Are you infertile?
maybe a bit bitter?
If no one has kids then humans will die out and then we will have no more Vegemite or Boobs and other good stuff.

 

[AnarchistFish]

My politics are pretty far left, some people would probably call me a communist (although I don't like categorising myself that strictly).
This causes problems with people whose only ideas on what communism is is based on misconceptions and propaganda, so generally I never bring up my politics and most people I know don't even know I hold these views.

Fallout 3 was batter than New Vegas.

Atmosphere in 3 was superior in every way.

*Flameshield... UP!*

YESSSS!

I believe that all first world countrys should bring in a 1-child law and stop all child allowance, untill a small and self sustaining population has been achieved in those countrys.

Not really sure what your point is here, but overpopulation isn't a problem in first world countries. In fact, many of them already have a naturally declining population. The problem is with poorer countries' populations increasing proportionally higher. Hopefully this will start to slow with further economic progress.
Your idea would do little to help overpopulation since it targets the wrong areas. It may even make the situation worse since an ageing population is created which then causes multiple economic problems in those first world countries. Germany's suffering from this problem at the moment. Actually it would probably cripple the country.
A steady population is a healthy one.

 

[pgwhite0721]

I think men should wear their hair short and facial hair should be cropped well and tidy. Long hair is for women. Unkempt facial hair shows a lack of class and self-respect.

I dislike people who complain to their government to solve all of their problems. Fix your own problems. More generally I dislike people who are not mostly self-sufficient.

I do not trust people who don't drink alcohol.

I do not trust people who wear suits all day.

I think that people who believe in gun control are naive.

I believe that violence solves a helluva lot of problems.

I dislike the idea of neutrality. People should always pick a side. "Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong ? but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong." - Robert Heinlein

 

[Dtox333]

I think men should wear their hair short and facial hair should be cropped well and tidy. Long hair is for women. Unkempt facial hair shows a lack of class and self-respect.

I dislike people who complain to their government to solve all of their problems. Fix your own problems. More generally I dislike people who are not mostly self-sufficient.

I do not trust people who don't drink alcohol.

I do not trust people who wear suits all day.

I think that people who believe in gun control are naive.

I believe that violence solves a helluva lot of problems.

I dislike the idea of neutrality. People should always pick a side. "Take sides! Always take sides! You will sometimes be wrong ? but the man who refuses to take sides must always be wrong." - Robert Heinlein

Your first statement is completely true (ignoring the "it's for women" part), though people like me simply don't care lol.

 

[AnarchistFish]

Oh snap, I just remembered another one. A lot of people are gonna get mad after I say this.
Ahem...I think dubstep sucks.

Now would this be wubwubwub electro house fake-"dubstep"?
Or real dubstep which uses 2-step drum rhythms?

Because if it's the latter, we have a problem
Anyway this is precisely the reason I hate the misconceptions that have risen around the term "dubstep".

 

[Trippy Turtle]

I think almost every important debate ever is stupid. Who cares about opinions when we should be dealing with facts. Its kind of odd seeing that I am on this site though but a lot of my posts boil down to "It doesn't matter either way".

 

[Dtox333]

I think almost every important debate ever is stupid. Who cares about opinions when we should be dealing with facts. Its kind of odd seeing that I am on this site though but a lot of my posts boil down to "It doesn't matter either way".

Except the majority of people have a set of morals and values that they adhere to, it's a very big, very important aspect of society, and you have people who debate these morals/values/ideals to show people their logic and reasoning.

debates are meant to convince others around you, not win an argument.

What if there was a debate on whether or not people were allowed to have their own opinions, and the one who does very well in this debate not only wins public support, but also influences legislation to enforce the ideal?

It'd be nice if everyone was able to keep their opinions to a personal level and were able to respect the ideals of others, but due to paranoia and the feeling of being threatened, that's just not something that's possible currently.