What non political controversial position do you hold?

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Anonymous wrote:Maryland drivers don't know how to use turn signals.

Preach

I heard that they were taught not to. Was that a joke that I took too seriously?

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Anonymous wrote:All the people who hate babies and children are evidence that there is something deeply wrong with our society.

How so? Everyone is different. It takes all kinds.

Because it is a more commonly held opinion among young people now than those who like, much less want, kids. I wonder if it's a result of a combination of factors: more adults now didn't have siblings, so they are less exposed to children in their immediate circles (nephews, nieces, etc). Young working adults have moved to urban centers and only interact with other young working adults instead of a multigenerational neighborhood environment. Our society caters to the 20-30s set- bars, expensive restaurants, etc. Our government makes it too expensive to have kids and allows the penalization of mothers for doing so by not requiring parental leave among other things. Our culture also isolates mothers, partly by the shaming as seen on this thread (raise your kids by yourself, because male partners shouldn't have paternity leave, and continue to raise them by yourself until they're 3, and then keep them away from anywhere they might interact with me including restaurants, but also do this on your male partner's single income with no government handouts, and also somehow pay for college). People would rather have a dog and call it a child rather than have an actual child. It just seems deeply unnatural to me. Children should be cherished. People don't have to have kids if they don't want them, but the aggressive hatred of kids is sick.

I have never, in all my 48 years, met anyone with an aggressive hatred of kids. Where do you meet these people?

Respectfully, you aren't the young people I was discussing. I am a little older than my office mates, who are primarily white. college-educated men, and some women, in their late 20s and early 30s. I've often heard things like: Kids are so f*ing annoying, I hate kids, Kids are gross. Etc etc.
And even on page 2 of this thread, you have a person saying babies and toddlers annoy them. I was going to search out all the instances on this thread alone, but I don't have time or the inclination. On the same page you have 3 people saying kids don't belong at wineries, which, although not counting that as hatred, at least displays a dislike of the presence of kids in some public outdoor settings.

Well I have two kids (who I love more than anything). Yet I don’t like toddlers at wineries, noisy kids at restaurants annoy the sh!t out of me, and I don’t want you to force me to converse with your brilliant toddler because I’m just not as enamored with him as you are. Does that count as an aggressive hatred of kids to you? Because it doesn’t to me.

I mean you can argue with me all you want, but people are continually talking about how much they dislike kids, whether they have them or not. Not sure why you are trying to deny that this is a common sentiment, and one that was less commonly expressed a decade or so ago. I'm sorry that, for whatever reason, you feel personally victimized by my observation.

I’m just saying people not liking kids (which I agree is a common sentiment) and and “intense hatred of kids” are two completely different things.

Okay, then we are merely differing on the definition of terms. Replace the terms hate and hatred in my first two posts with "strongly dislike" and I still stand by my original sentiment, which is that, overall, these commonly-held very negative feelings about children show that there is something very wrong with society.

NP. I think the other PPs point is that your interjection of adjectives into this discussion is unnecessary, and incorrect.

Moreover, I think you're wrong that this is a recent phenomenon. When I was in my 20s, I didn't like kids; neither did many of my friends. That's not exactly an uncommon sentiment among young adults. 20-25 years later, we all have kids, and all adore each others' kids.

Seems to me you just want to rant about how society is going to hell in a handbasket, and have seized on this as a vehicle for your complaints.

I guess I win for most controversial opinion considering how many people have pushed back. I’d just add that the child free movement is rising, and the birth rate continues to decline. So I’d expect that many of the people now who profess dislike (no adjective) of children now will continue to not have children.

I love how you think this is a badge of honor.

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Anonymous wrote:All golf courses could be closed and turned into public housing! Too much land wasted for a stupid recreational space!

All golf courses and country clubs should start paying taxes and pay for public housing.

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Anonymous wrote:Once a month every person in an exclusive relationship should be able to sleep with someone else without any repurcussion

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There would be less divorces this way

It’s not true and been studied.

Because women easily get laid and men just get more frustrated that they neither get it at home nor out of the home or their once a month person get too serious/crazy. If they try to make it not 1 person go back to point #1.

What are you blabbering on about?

Giving free passes monthly sounds amazing. I would hook up with our neighbors son.

Are you a dude?

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Anonymous wrote:We should go back to fat shaming for the health of our insanely obese country.

We should skinny shame for the mental health of pathetic white women (and some Asians).

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Anonymous wrote:Sleeping in the same bed with your significant other is highly overrated.

Agree! Also having separate bathrooms is helpful.

My friend designed a master bedroom with 2 bathrooms.

“Master” bathrooms are gross and I would never want to live in a house where there was a bathroom in my sleeping space.

Who puts a bathroom in the sleeping space?

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a personal trainer for 30 years. Masters in Exercise Science. I’ve never trained an overweight person who wasn’t able to lose weight. Being fat - absent a very, very few medical conditions - is a choice. And it’s a selfish choice that harms you, your family, and society as a whole. Fat shaming is wrong. Normalizing obesity is even worse. If you are fat, you can lose weight. You are making a choice not to.

Also, there is no magic diet, special drink, pill, or program that will help you lose weight. Carbs are not bad. Keto is a horrible diet (unless you have a specific medical condition), a vegetarian diet is not healthy for most women, and Beachbody should be sued for allowing MLMs to call themselves “coaches”.

Personal trainers are an insane social construct.

Lol “master in exercise”

People just need to walk and do yoga

Weight training is for the pathetic

Marathon running is a form of addiction, so is working out/lifting weights

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a personal trainer for 30 years. Masters in Exercise Science. I’ve never trained an overweight person who wasn’t able to lose weight. Being fat - absent a very, very few medical conditions - is a choice. And it’s a selfish choice that harms you, your family, and society as a whole. Fat shaming is wrong. Normalizing obesity is even worse. If you are fat, you can lose weight. You are making a choice not to.

Also, there is no magic diet, special drink, pill, or program that will help you lose weight. Carbs are not bad. Keto is a horrible diet (unless you have a specific medical condition), a vegetarian diet is not healthy for most women, and Beachbody should be sued for allowing MLMs to call themselves “coaches”.

Personal trainers are an insane social construct.

Lol “master in exercise”

People just need to walk and do yoga

Weight training is for the pathetic

Marathon running is a form of addiction, so is working out/lifting weights

I think you're both idiots. I don't doubt you are both confined you're right, however. That doesn't actually make you right, though.

Signed,
Middle Aged Fat Woman Who Powerlifts, Does Yoga and Interval Runs But Couldn't Even Lose Weight on 1400 Calories While Working With a Nutritionist and Trainer

#geneticsarereal

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a personal trainer for 30 years. Masters in Exercise Science. I’ve never trained an overweight person who wasn’t able to lose weight. Being fat - absent a very, very few medical conditions - is a choice. And it’s a selfish choice that harms you, your family, and society as a whole. Fat shaming is wrong. Normalizing obesity is even worse. If you are fat, you can lose weight. You are making a choice not to.

Also, there is no magic diet, special drink, pill, or program that will help you lose weight. Carbs are not bad. Keto is a horrible diet (unless you have a specific medical condition), a vegetarian diet is not healthy for most women, and Beachbody should be sued for allowing MLMs to call themselves “coaches”.

Personal trainers are an insane social construct.

Lol “master in exercise”

People just need to walk and do yoga

Weight training is for the pathetic

Marathon running is a form of addiction, so is working out/lifting weights

I think you're both idiots. I don't doubt you are both confined you're right, however. That doesn't actually make you right, though.

Signed,
Middle Aged Fat Woman Who Powerlifts, Does Yoga and Interval Runs But Couldn't Even Lose Weight on 1400 Calories While Working With a Nutritionist and Trainer

#geneticsarereal

You sound awesome!
I would like to see some kind of explanation of how your fatness is harming you, your family, and society.

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Anonymous wrote:Pandas are overrated. They went down a very weird evolutionary side path that makes everything else about them hard. They eat mostly bamboo despite having a gut that would be better for meat, as a result They have very premature babies. And it's hard to get them to mate.

They're cute, but they are very strange animals.

Agreed. Ditto koalas. Wtf evolution.

Platypus. Now THAT is a WTF critter.

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Anonymous wrote:I’ve been a personal trainer for 30 years. Masters in Exercise Science. I’ve never trained an overweight person who wasn’t able to lose weight. Being fat - absent a very, very few medical conditions - is a choice. And it’s a selfish choice that harms you, your family, and society as a whole. Fat shaming is wrong. Normalizing obesity is even worse. If you are fat, you can lose weight. You are making a choice not to.

Also, there is no magic diet, special drink, pill, or program that will help you lose weight. Carbs are not bad. Keto is a horrible diet (unless you have a specific medical condition), a vegetarian diet is not healthy for most women, and Beachbody should be sued for allowing MLMs to call themselves “coaches”.

Personal trainers are an insane social construct.

Lol “master in exercise”

People just need to walk and do yoga

Weight training is for the pathetic

Marathon running is a form of addiction, so is working out/lifting weights

I think you're both idiots. I don't doubt you are both confined you're right, however. That doesn't actually make you right, though.

Signed,
Middle Aged Fat Woman Who Powerlifts, Does Yoga and Interval Runs But Couldn't Even Lose Weight on 1400 Calories While Working With a Nutritionist and Trainer

#geneticsarereal

Admit your mental health issue have you both eat too much and powerlifting. They are symptoms of a mental health issue just like drugs and alcohol.

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Anonymous wrote:I think it’s wrong to intentionally breed dogs & sell (or buy) the puppies. There are millions of unwanted animals, tens of thousands of which are euthanized every year in the US alone. If you want a dog, go to the pound/animal shelter and adopt one (then get it spayed or neutered!).

+1 People who buy dogs are gross. People who like horse racing are the same. It is all animal abuse.

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I like kids. I strongly dislike children who aren't properly raised or disciplined. I have two kids and no I don't think they belong everywhere.

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Nerf guns should be banned. They just glorify guns.

First person shooter games should also be banned.

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Dogs are seriously gross animals. I don't know how people have them in their homes.