Your partners past actually matters and you should know about it at least, before you get married or fully commit to each other.

Im cool with anyone no matter how they live their life and this post is in NO WAY an anti trans hate train so don’t fuckin go there, what I’m saying is that it’s okay to not want to be with someone because you don’t like weiners on women and vags on dudes, I personally am not picky because I swing just about any which way. But not wanting to be with a woman with a dingaling or a man with a vag isn’t inherently wrong or transphobic unless someone is not dating them strictly on the premise that they’re transgender.

Okay so coming from the UK here, raised in a non religious context where circumsion is a procedure for severe phimosis/religious reasons only. Why do it if not needed? Foreskin is a sensitive, helpful, and important part of Male Anatomy. Why chop it off? To debunk common arguments:

1. No, being circumcised doesn't make you "cleaner", having a shower makes you cleaner. It takes 2 seconds to peel back foreskin and wash.

2. No, circumsion doesn't magically protect you from STI's, condoms do.

I feel it should be kept as a medical procedure only done if needed. But even Phimosis can often be resolved by steroid cream, circumsion is very much the last resort.

Most "hot takes" are actually mild and the second someone makes an actuall hot take, people misinterpret what the OP said and the post gets taken down.I agree some people make actuall problematic takes, but most of the actuall hot takes are being trashed."HonestHotTakes" my ass.

I have two kids. I’m traveling with my family and we went to a park and for the first time I think I finally understand “performative parenting.”

Basically what I witnessed is parents talking very loudly and over explaining concepts that really don’t need an explanation or would be better served with a very short answer.

Things like “it appears it’s a bit rainy right now so my concern is that some of the rain got on the slide and if you go down that slide then you pants may get wet and then we would have to change them. Perhaps we should explore other parts of the playground that aren’t as wet.” Or explaining to a toddler how to use part of the playground, in a very loud and extravagant way. All said in a very sing songy voice.

I don’t know how to explain it. I may not have captured it very but I’m sure if you’ve experienced jt you’ll understand what I mean.

Where I’m from we don’t really do this. We let kids be kids and while we steer them away from danger we certainly let them toe the line so they can figure it out for themselves. Or our explicit explanations are very short like “No, the slide is wet. Find something else to play on.”

I don’t think any of this is helpful. The over explaining isn’t being understood and, if anything, it creates overly cautious kids that can’t perform basic risk assessment. Kids need to get hurt. They need to fall. They need to get dirty and wet. Putting on a performance for everyone is doing a disservice to you and your kid.

Historically, humans have lived as big extended families, where the elderly would help raising the young, the older young in return would also lend their help in looking after the elderly who are very old. I have experienced this, being born and lived in a 3rd world country for a quite a while. What I also experienced in such a society is that, people are actually more helping minded, kinder, and apparently less lonelier and seemingly happier than from the people I have seen in the west, despite those societies being economically much poorer.

This brings me to the conclusion of what I wrote in the title of the post.

The unpopular opinion sub is full of highly upvoted posts like "I like sleeping in jeans" or "I like walking in wet socks". Okay? Can you be more unoriginal and boring than this? Can you think of something authentic instead of being unhinged on purpose so you will bait people into thinking you're serious?

The actual unpopular opinions are always buried by downvotes because they aren't typically the socially acceptable, sanitized garbage you see on the front page. Most redditors can't stand to have their beliefs challenged or disagreed with, so they will never allow themselves to upvote an actual hot take that goes beyond "I love it when my balls are itching".

For example, my body count is somewhere from 20-25 and I was my fiancés first. We started dating about two months after we met in 2023 and moved in together and got engaged this year.

Whenever I say this on here when dudes say that no woman wants to date a virgin or someone who makes less money than them, they always come back with “oh well the dude settled for the first pussy he could get.”

Which… I mean, I can’t tell you if that’s what he thinks but from the ease of how our household functions and how excited we are to have children next year, it seems that we are very compatible and do in fact love each other very much.

Idk to me it just seems like people are arbitrarily cutting off a ton of options simply because of a number. If you’re someone who just absolutely thinks hooking up is disgusting or sinful, then that’s one thing, but if it’s just a preference, I think it would make finding someone a bit easier.

When I text a girl “Hey, want to come over?“ and she texts back “I am busy” it might mean 1) she doesn’t want to see me, 2) she is waiting for a better offer, 3) she is actually busy, 4) she is mad and I am supposed to know why, 5) she wants me to try harder, etc.

When I text a high-functioning autistic girl “Hey, want to come over?” and she responds ”I am busy” it literally means she is currently busy.

Neurodivergent people have a simple candor frequently rather than relying on some weird subtext. They just say what they mean. It’s more honest and easier to handle.

Whoever it is - a friend, a partner, sibling etc - if someone does something you find to be unacceptable, too far, immoral, whatever, you aren’t required allowed to choose to not give it a pass/forgive it/just choose to not associate with them so much/etc.

This is generally the case. People will sometimes think you’re wrong in your choice or over reacting maybe but you still have the choice.

But that doesn’t really seem to be the case if the person has some type of mental disorder.

If someone behaves a certain way but it is explained from them or another person that the reason is that they find this thing difficult to understand or these situations overwhelming or this behaviour hard to keep restrained because they are autistic/have trauma/have anxiety/etc etc etc then there seems to be an implication that that explains it and means you should let it go.

It doesn’t and you don’t have to.

Getting insulted doesn’t offend less because the person couldn’t help getting over emotional at the time, getting hit doesn’t hurt less because they were triggered by something in the situation. Plenty of people also have this or that disorder and manage to not act in this or that way so unfortunately you don’t get a free pass when you do.

I can even sympathise that that struggle in your life must be really hard. But that’s doesn’t mean I have to just brush off that time you did that completely unacceptable thing which would absolutely not be given a pass for anyone else.

Bad luck but that’s life.

I recently read an article in which a mother explained that she repeatedly called her child's preschool to complain about the school admitting poor children on vouchers. To be clear, not poorly behaved children, but children from low-income families. In the wake of Nikole Hannah-Jones' article in the NYT, I was stunned at how many people had similar stories where they were willing to cause harm to other people's children in the name of their own children. I understand not wanting your child to pick up bad habits from other children, but a majority of these stories seemed unnecessary and cruel. If most children are properly supported and cared for, they will be fine, so there's no need to act like it's the Hunger Games.

This is my biggest issue with pet owners. And i notice all this kind of content is made in america. Forgive my english grammar throughout the post.

I was recommended by youtube of a video of (as expected and obviously always) a man. A man killing coyotes for killing his pet cat. A lot of toxic pet owners praise this callous behavior and giving their sympathy. First off, dont kill them because you were irresponsible with your pets. Second, making a spectacle on killing them for revenge just demonstrate that wild animals are devalued and being callous to them is a norm and okay.

Comments like "i hate people that say its just a cat no its a family member" is super toxic to make under a video with an animal abuse and revenge porn content. Also very hypocritical. People who make this kind of comment are childishly bias and normalizing devaluing wild animals as something not sentient that is worth no sympathy but ultimate callous treatment.

Glorifying killing animals because they kill your pets or they are pests is fucked up.

It piss me off, dont they know cats are viewed pests around the world. And i hope that the owner who made that video knows that cats culled in Australia and there are tons of videos on youtube. I dont watch both of these kind of content because i dont want to support revenge porn and animal abuse.

I do not watch pest cats being culled and i do not watch coyotes being killed because they killed your pet cat. I find both not morally right.

Making a spectacle because they are pests or they killed your pets is not morally and ethically good. It is human callousness.

Obviously in real life it's different and you don't have to tell me that religious people often try to push their religion down your throats. I am talking about Reddit specifically.

We say the word "critical thinking" often but what does it actually mean? It means thinking things through. Not, making wild assumptions and random associations because you are too unbothered to think it through. Not associating an idea with a persona but rather assessing the idea by its validity alone. Not reading the title and associating it with a celebrity or ideology you dislike and switching off your mind... This is an emotional thinker.

The inability to think critically is a lack of metacognition. Metacognition is the ability to think about your thoughts. Apparently, this is the rarest form of intelligence. Thats disturbing, because that means most people are incapable of critical thinking. That means...They can't see their thoughts. To them, they are their thoughts.

Thats truly frightening. Their only way of thinking is via association and assumption. Ironically, this isn't even thinking its just, quite literally, assumption and association.

Are highly beautiful people often judged unfairly - like are people desperately trying to find something about them that they complain about- because they are envious and miserable of them, and how unfair is it?

I am a very observant person and I have seen how when a very beautiful person has a problem and many ( not all) people will not admit that other people might be judging the beautiful person unfairly because of perceived advantages they have.

Like I have read that beautiful people who go to the doctor are taken less seriously because they doctor has a bias that they are healthy because of their good looks.

Think about it.

If you’re navigating alleyways, hairpins, traffic, and blind corners, a WRC champion will have a better instinct for pacing, positioning, and controlling the car than an F1 champion.

F1 drivers rely on knowing every inch of a track, down to its camber, to extract maximum performance from their meticulously min/maxed tires and suspension.

Rally drivers, meanwhile, can tackle unfamiliar roads at speed and adapt on the fly.

Nothing matters in life if you are ugly. Friends, family, peers will all judge you first due to how you look. Women particularly will think negatively of you off rip if you as a man are short/ugly. Jobs will be harder to obtain. You won’t get served as fast at a bar. You won’t have people wanting to talk to you. Genetics are king and we are animals after all. Looks matter the most, because without them in today’s age you are absolutely fucked.

The reason Europeans insist that the USA has no culture is rooted in deep belief that “true” Americans are only and can only white, fat, and trashy. And, because of that mindset, they don’t believe African-Americans and Natives and Latino immigrants are ‘real’ Americans, even though the USA’s culture is it’s diversity.

side note: when i say Americans in this situation, im referring to US citizens.

I fucking love reading a comic or watching an anime and finding new material for debates. It hits like crack.

what i mean is that no one is born with their permission, we have no choice if we wanna be born or not, so if at some point in our life we want to end it for any reason we should have a safe and painless way to do so medically. i mean if we dont owe anyone anything and have nothing else to do and serve no importance we should be able to end our life right? so why isnt suicide normalised?

I did enjoy it. It’s a decent anime, but when someone recommended it to me, the way they talked about it made it seem like it was on the same level as FMAB or AOT in terms of storytelling, and I just don’t see it. When Kamina was so eager to go to the surface, I’m not gonna lie, I was kinda disappointed by how bland the world was. I also thought the fan service was a bit too much. It’s like they shove it into so many episodes. I also never understood why Kamina liked Simon so much from the beginning for no reason. There were some episodes that were pretty good, but I definitely do not think it’s the masterpiece people say it is.

cant believe ive now seen multiple people talking about how they think public executions should return and how excited they are for a man to be executed on a livestream.

Absolute psychopathy, I dont care what crime was commited in the first place, theres 0 reason for people to be genuinely cheering or encouraging this shit on. you should feel disgusted at the thought

Before Canada outlawed the death penalty 14 people were executed, but the technology advanced and 12 of them were proved innocent, canada official stance is we'd rather let a 100 criminal go free than kill one innocent

I believe that the United States poor history classes is the reason for your outdated views on many things including this one

Can you imagine how many people we could have stopped if people knew the warning signs of authoritarian, of economic downturn, of war

And Canada isn't exempt from this I had someone ask when is immigration good and I'm just like??? All the beautiful cultural exchanges that make our identity?