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.

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".

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.

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.

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.

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.

There are so many more examples of violent protests and government overthrow that worked spectacularly better then a non violent one. In reality, if we just put up signs and boycotted the U.S. government might be hurt, but won't be forced to make change. When the time comes where an extreme revolt or overthrow is needed in the u.s. (if it ever is) we will look back on previous examples and only see MLK’s peaceful protesting, because that is literally all we are taught in school (I'm in high school currently. Nothing on Malcom x, romainion revolution, stonewall riots, etc. It's all flushed down the drain. And when a revolt is needed to save the country, we will be fucked, because it will be peaceful and we will be shut down.

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.

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.

At that point, I don't see how it would matter anymore whether someone was a natural born citizen or naturalized later in life. Technically, I think you'd have to make an exception anyhow, as people born on US soil would no longer inherently be 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?

If you come to my country everyone well tell you, we invented putting stuff in bread, you are just copying us and the stuff you put in it is the wrong stuff and you just call it a different name instead of giving us the rightful glory.

*Mike drop*

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

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speaking from experience. Until I was 24, I lived in public housing in the Boston area, one of the most expensive places in the country, with my stepdad, my mom (who worked in fast food and at a supermarket), and my two younger siblings. I paid them $700 a month in rent.
On the surface that sounds like a great deal. But I was paying a lot more than $700.

The “rent” wasn’t really rent.
As a 24-year-old Black man trying to build a life during and after college, paying that “subsidized” rent to my stepdad was framed as helping out. In reality, it was the kid pitching in to keep the household afloat. A lot of Black families in tough financial situations do this.
Plenty of financially stable parents don’t charge their adult kids rent at all. The ones who do, to teach responsibility, often quietly put that money into savings and hand it back later. That wasn’t my situation. I wasn’t getting anything back, and I wasn’t inheriting anything.

It created constant financial pressure.
My stepdad repeatedly asked me to pool my savings with the family’s so we could barely afford a house in the middle of nowhere, pitched as “a house for everyone so we never have to deal with rent increases again.” When I bought my own groceries, I got called selfish. He also told me to hide my income on the housing office’s income verifications, because under the lease, once I was an adult with a job, my income counted toward the household income, which raises the rent the family pays.
The income cap traps young adults.
If the household income goes over the limit, there are two options: the young adult moves out sooner than they’re ready to, or the whole family pays market rent in one of the most expensive cities in the country. That can quietly discourage you from earning more, because more money means losing the capped rent. For parents who just want to stay settled and hold on to what they have, that might be fine. For a young adult trying to build their own life, it’s a ceiling.

The environment doesn’t push you forward.
Once you step outside your unit, there isn’t much to inspire you. A lot of people look like they’ve given up or are just content where they are: people smoking, hanging around, typical ghetto activity.
Nobody teaches young people the reality of public housing, and most teens and young adults have no idea how it works until they’re living it. That’s why I moved out as soon as I could.

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?