“Girls Just Pretend To Like It”: 40 People Reveal What Unpopular Opinions They Have About Our Society
Unpopular opinions—chances are, we all have them. Whether we voice them or not is up to us entirely, but of course, some people cannot resist a chance to share their thoughts in some online threads, especially if you can hide behind an avatar and a username that probably isn’t going to expose your real identity to anyone (unless you don’t care, that is).
A popular Twitter user by the name of @jzux aka ‘trash jones’ asked her followers to share their most benign unpopular opinions. As expected, the thread was too hard to resist for a lot of the bird app users as the tweet went viral, receiving over 21.4K quote tweets as well as a lot of entertaining replies under the original post itself.
With that being said, if you’d like to see what is this all about, then think no further and scroll down below to see if you agree or disagree with some of the statements these people shared online.
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Interestingly enough, the Georgia Institute of Technology has actually done studies in regard to unpopular opinions people have. Using the data found (that was based on a popular subreddit called R/unpopularopinion), Dasom Eom, Linh Hoang, and Gerry Oei came to some rather interesting conclusions based on their study.
Their research heavily links to a social phenomenon called the spiral of silence. To understand this better, first, you have to know what the theory of the spiral of silence entails. German political scientist Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann developed the spiral of silence theory, which combines political science and mass communication. It claims that a person's desire to express their own beliefs is influenced by how they perceive the distribution of the general public's opinions.
Making your whole identity about your mental illness is weird too. I understand that being deep down in the hole that is clinical depression makes it hard to see anything beyond that, but you get perfectly functioning humans build a whole new personality and lifestyle around a diagnosis.
The development of internet technology and online communication has recently prompted people to speak out and share their opinions in public online, shattering the barrier of the spiral of silence. Users can openly post and discuss socially undesirable opinions on the subreddit r/unpopularopinion. In this exact study, the forum was studied using the results from participant interviews and community observation. Then they also presented a descriptive analysis to demonstrate how the online space aids its users in overcoming the spiral of silence.
In conclusion, one of the issues with online spaces (especially Reddit) identified in the study is the recurrent re-uploading of similar viewpoints on the same subject. After a while, users may believe the viewpoint is common and widespread after repeatedly hearing similar unpopular thoughts, thus it becomes the popular idea in the end.
Agreed as someone who is planning to be child-free. BUT its also equally annoying when people make kids their whole personality and blame those who don't want them.
I agree, pineapple belongs on pizza as much as all other ingredients such as pepperoni. Let people eat what they want to eat.
YES! It's one of the best flavours along side mint chocolate chip and lemon sorbet
No, some people actually have problems eating certain kinds of food. It might be the texture that will make them gag or throw up. It might give them indigestion.
On one hand, I kinda get this, but on the other hand, a really awesome concert generates an incredible atmosphere that's all but impossible to not get swept up in. Also, it's a way of supporting your favorite artists :)
The idea is that you know a person so well, that there is little risk of buying the terrible gift. I you do not know that person that well, you should be allowed to bring a totaly generic gift. like a bottle of wine or the latest John Grisham.
Uhm ... that sounds like "I don't want it" to me. If I have burgers at noon I will not eat burgers at night.
I think everybody feels that way, and most people thinks oh god no, I can't sing, when they are forced to celebrate a birthday this way, and even the birthday boy/girl will be embarished when everybody's eyes is turned on them. So why we do it is still a conundrum for me.
I find it vice versa. Soft covers won't stay open, you have to break their spines or hold the pages down with a ruler, or use both hands. Hardcover you can leave open on your desk without using hands.
i actually love good wine. everyone has different tastes. people can believe what they want.
They play like the adults around them - my older daughter copies my wife and me, and we look after a baby so she wants to look after a baby too. I don't know how different it would be if we had a boy, or we didn't have a second child. Our older daughter also likes playing with cars and diggers, FWIW
I had a boy and he had only female cousins his age, for one of the girls birthdays I bought a doll and my son asked me for one, he was about 2.we carted doll to Europe for our vacation and he loved her and talked to her…..and then he discovered a giant potato and that became his new friend . Lol
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I think it's weird to give *only* girls baby dolls and *only* boys cars and mechanic sets. Children like to imitate adults, they see adults taking care of children so they want to do the same during playing. Let's just let children choose their own toys regardless of their gender and there will be no problem.
I partly disagree, it's not necessarily training them to be mothers. Here's the story why: a colleague tried to raise his daughter non stereotypically and offered her different toys. Among them were toy cars. And what did the girl do? She put the cars to sleep in bed, just like a doll.
When my son and nephew were about 3 years old, they played with bubble swords, like pretend fighting. They put the swords down and my 7-year-old niece picked up a sword and pretended to cut her hair with it.
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As a little girl I always had both, cars/mechanic toys and baby dolls/stuffed animals... and a bucket full of little plastic dinosaurs. I never liked playing with dolls and pretending to be their mom but preferred to cuddle with my animals and to play with my mechanic stuff. BUT: I used my Lego bricks to build neat little doll houses for my dinosaurs. (And they loved living in them :D) I think it's important to let the children choose what they prefer. There's nothing wrong or weird if you let girls be a doll's mommy and there's nothing wrong if they want to play with cars. (The same goes for boys of course.)
I'm told I wanted and got a toy purse when I was 2. No harm no foul
Load More Replies... I don't think it's about training to be a mom. They can dress them, play with them, take care of them and learn basic empathy skills and how to care for people around them. Very important traits for their future lifes.
And then spend their whole blighted lives looking after other people. First the husband, then the kids AND the husband, then just as they think they're finally free when the kids leave home, their own parents.
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it's not weird... it's human nature. There is nothing wrong with letting a little girl, or a boy for that matter explore their nurturing nature. I think it builds empathy. Where it goes wrong is when moms and dads try planting ideas in kids heads about having kids. Let that develop naturally. Not everyone needs to be a parent.
Both of my sons have played with their mother’s old doll. They carry it around, sometimes not by the head or one leg, and put it to bed. It’s cute, it’s sweet, I don’t see what the big deal is. My eldest(9) moved onto to other things and my youngest(2) still plays with it. I don’t feel like any manliness is threatened or whatever b******t the macho men are whining about.
not here boys are also given dolls and we have boy dolls as well as girl dolls.
My kids both played with dolls - my daughter would cradle them and my son would grab the dolls by their ankles and swing them around.
Action figures (even transformers!) are dolls too. Kids like dolls because they can see it as a small companion and play, talk, dress with it. It's not like every parent who gives Lego to their kids secretly wants them to be constructors!?
I did all kinds of gender neutral things with my son. He was given dolls, watched “girl” shows like Shimmer and Shine, etc. He was given “boy” things too. He came out the most stereotypical boy you’ve ever seen. Rub some dirt on it, dinos, cars, building, etc. It took me a while to realize that the point of providing him with both stereotypical boy and girl things was to let him choose what he enjoys rather than push him in one direction. So he got to pick, and he picked very, very clearly. I’d still buy him a Barbie at the drop of a hat or paint his nails if he wanted but he just isn’t interested in that stuff. He’s a wonderful child regardless.
We do that so they can prepare for the event that they may have kids themselves or that they have to take care of other small children. I don't think the problem is that girls play with dolls (or kitchens, cleaning gear etc.... it's all for preparing for the traditional adult female life). The problem is that not enough boys play with dolls (or kitchens....you know). Boys should also prepare for having children or taking care of other small kids.
My parents gave me and my sisters trucks! Like the giant Hess truck, Firestone truck a fire engine. They were big enough to sit on and really fun in the dirt! Sometimes you might even see a naked Barbie on one, with her soft rubber toes bit off!
I had baby dolls but I had more cars. I mean, am I supposed to just not what do with that baby. Haha nope. I don’t know. Still don’t know a lot. I know how cars work tho. Somewhat.
Because boys come with a plaything built in. Well... attached, at any rate.
Agreed, but only because a lot of people ONLY give their daughters dolls etc. Our son has a baby doll and a play kitchen, because having kids and cooking is a human thing, not a female thing.
Testing has shown that when kids select, girls like dolly things and boy like toy cars and weapons. Can there be a cross over? Sure, lots of em.
Whatever interests them and they want to play with should be what they play with. Tinker toys, legos, the little carpenter belts and toys, chemist sets, doctor sets, baby dolls, and kitchen sets to make tea for Daddy, are all available to any kid. Boy or girl.
dolls are good for both sexes...it's not that you're training someone to be a mother...you're helping your people practice caring for and nurturing other human beings...and also giving them someone to play imaginary games with, where they control the action...your daughter's doll might be her patient when she is a doctor or her student when she is a teacher...not all dolls are about dress up etc.
This OP shows one of the worst cases of not understanding human beings AT ALL that I have ever seen. Has she ever learned anything ever? Kids have been playing with dolls for as long as we know, in every society, all around the world. Much of the imagination play that kids do is acting out adult activities, like "playing house". Good lord, why don't we teach Cultural Anthropology 101 in high school? It should be mandatory. It would quell about 90% of the stupid myths that abound these days and prevent questions like this that seem so awesome to people who know next to nothing about the world.
So do you disagree with giving children toy cars too? I mean, that's training them to be drivers, right? Don't think too hard about why we give children gifts. Sometimes it is because they genuinely like playing with them and they grow out of it and into something else. My wife did not have kids because someone gave her a baby doll when she was 2 years old. We had kids because we wanted little people of our own.
Scientists just did an experiment with a group of baboons in the wild. They left toy trucks & dolls out near their troupe. The males picked up the toy trucks & the girls went for the dolls. Gender roles are hardwired into all primates. Except certain humans. They can't handle reality nor the science behind our behaviors.
We have been very , very , very weird for a very , very , very long time in that case. They go back thousands of years.
Yes. I am so sick of anti-establishment, just to be anti establishment. If they don't play with the first one, they don't get a second one, simple as that. They get them because they play with them.
They are playing with toys, no one is training them. And many women become mothers because biology.
if she wants it, she gets it - if she wants teddybear or a slot car racing track. she may have it .I grew up this way and I´m born early 60ies. to me Barbies are more horrible than baby dolls
If you don't, the kid will do it herself. I've seen girls put max steal to bed like a baby or make a doll out of a folded coat
If that was my child's preferred toy to play with then I would accommodate that. Personally I was more of a tom boy in my childhood and preferred anything outdoorsy and sporty.
As a child, I more so saw my dolls like my friends, or a little sister.
Anyone remember that song "William Wants a Doll?" Anyone wants a doll--go for it.
My Daughters all had dolls, so did my son. They also had a big range of other toys too. My Granddaughter has dolls ,but has far more dinosaurs.
Somebody should've given my mother a doll to practice on before she had kids, but that's another story.
Little boys enjoy playing with baby dolls as well. Babies are their reality and they want to emulate their parents
Really? Somebody doesn’t understand why society would train young girls to be mothers? Who should we be training to do it? Should we just not have mothers? Should they remain untrained?
I named my favourite doll after my mother, and she’s still with me 35 years later. I wonder if that means anything.
I used to act out stories with my dolls.If one thing, I was taught to be a movie director, lol
Mmm, maybe because they have wombs and are no matter what you identify as, still the only ones in the human race able to carry a child to birth.
Many times over the years I was the only girl at my babysitters. Played boys stuff. Her son was the big brother I never had. Went to visit his grandparents and they were putting in a large septic tank. Great place to play construction! I read The Hardy Boys, not Nancy Drew. Too girly. I had dolls at home, but I was crazy about the Dr. Kildare Show, so I mostly pretended to operate on them. I just think it was the environment I was brought up in. They built a huge addition to the hospital I used to work at. I would rather have watched the construction all day.
They made an experiment once where very young toddlers were given the options between more feminine and masculine toys, and the genders generally swerved towards the norm. Girls more often to dolls and calm play, boys to wild play.
It's not as much training then to be mothers, it's making them know how to handle a baby. Children learn by what they see. That being said, there are parents that do teach them to become parents, some even make the older kids babysit and take care for their siblings so they can go do other things. To those parents I would say "use birth control if you don't or can't care for yet another child"
Er...because one day they might be mothers. Clue's in the question. But I'm all for giving little girls army toys and toy pianos and Lego and everything, and letting *them* figure out what they want to be. Incidentally I learned recently that there's an almost universal rule of play: little boys build things, like towers, and little girls put things inside other things, like a jewellery box. Just a thing that seems to happen.
Someone gave me a baby doll for Christmas once. I hated it, I never played with it. I guess that was a hint as to why I new from a very young age that I didn't want kids.
Believe or not most kids do pick toys appropriate for their gender all by themselves. My grandson at 6 mos.... not at all interested in his sisters doll, but totally excited by a truck or motorcycle. It's not all nurture believe it or not.
Yeah, I don't really buy I to the whole "gender appropriate" toy idea.
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Anectodal, but my mother's brother had two girls, then a suprise boy, who pretty much rejected the girls' hand-me-down girl toys. I don't think anyone involved would have had a problem if that were not the case (and this was the 1980s) but it was what it was. I also see it with my own son - he's been in plenty of situations where he has access to a wide range of toys but tends towards the boy side.
You mean a decreasing percentage of men won't because they're stuck in some pathetic hyper-masculine gender role. I'm so glad the younger generation of men is more open minded than previous generations.
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Who else is going to be their mother if they decide to have children?
Avocados are healthy and contain good ingredients. They taste good with pasta.
I used to think so too. Then I learned that instead of infusing it with boiling water (100°C/212° F), I should use slightly cooler water (70°C/158°F), also the leaves shouldn't be in cup for too long. The difference is big. I'm not saying that he HAS to like green tea but for many people it's a matter of drinking badly prepared one.
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Half of these are just food preferences....when did "I like this thing" or "I don't like this thing" become a controversial opinion? I came here looking for viewpoints like "Marriage should be abolished" or "Organ donation after death should be mandatory" not "I think coffee tastes bad".
Ugh, thank you! This entire thread reads like a bunch of teenagers whining about how mainstream bad, edgy good.
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...people who comment "...oh you obviously never had REAL whatsoever..." under each post when someone don't like something.
I was going to say exactly this. It's supremely arrogant to assume their version of whatever the item in question is is the legitimate version. I once commented that I wasn't a big fan of pizza and then had someone say "well, you've obviously never had real NY pizza". Um, yes I have, several times. Still didn't change my personal stance toward pizza in general
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Anyone who makes one aspect of their lives/personality in your face are annoying. I get it man, you like weed, are gay, from the USA etc. Woo. Let's talk about how awesome animals are instead
I thought these were supposed to be unpopular opinions. Why do I agree with almost all of them?
I can't stand the trend of inserting the word "like" 3 x in one bloody sentence.
Is it still 'a trend' though? I remember people doing that since I was a child, and I'm now middle aged.
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I think it's horrifying that true crime stories are entertainment. These are real people with real families who have to keep living their lives while thousands of people pick apart the most awful events they've dealt with. Even if some of the family members are guilty, there are others who still have to see all the headlines and deal with people whispering behind their backs or asking them questions.
Forgetting someone's name that you just met or recently met is a HUGE insult and a massive social Faux Pas!!! I'm sorry, I'm simply TERRIBLE with remembering names (but I never forget a face). I'm never personal offended when someone forgets my name. I'm Josh, not a very hard name to forget, but it does happy. I simply and politely remind them. Why is that such a big deal???
Well, let's see how well THIS goes. I'm a 50yr old guy, single and no kids. When I was 7 I saw "STAR WARS" when it first came out and it was BEYOND AMAZING!! I love collecting a lot of the toys and memorabilia to put up on display. I even still have some of the toys from back in the day and I TRULY treasure them, it makes me happy. I don't sit around and play with them. Just having them brings back such fond memories of my childhood. How lucky I was to live in an age when kids used your imagination to play, which I feel is a thing of the past, everything's video games (and that's fine, I'm not judging). I built STAR WARS LEGO'S from time to time, though not often. It's just a silly little hobby I enjoy. But there seems to be SOOO many people who judge people like myself, that it's juvenile, that it's time to "grow up." I just don't see the harm in it??
Nothing wrong with that!! I'm 41 gal married , and I love SpongeBob,I have no kids ! Lol
Load More Replies... My opion thats probably not popular is its none of my business if you have an opinion different from mine. I'm not always right either.
Other than morons committing any kind of crime--ANY KIND!---I plain and simply don't care what anyone else does. As long as it doesn't affect me or my church brethren, I just plain don't care. I help who I can, leave alone nearly everybody, and really prefer not to know who eats what because of why. People need to just shut up about their food preferences unless someone else asks them specifically....I have a huge load of allergies, so I always make my own food, and boy, do I get hassled at times! Just leave me alone, go eat your ham hocks and liver burgers, and we'll get along just fine.
I'm surprised I didn't see anyone say that they do not like b/w-films. Met so many ppl over the years claiming that b/w-films are bad or boring. They said this to me... a petson whose two fav films are Freaks and Nosferatu. Lol
I! LOVE!! "FREAKS!!!" I like "Nosferatu, but "FREAKS" is a misunderstood MASTERPIECE that's finally finding favor as a cult classic.
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People who put clothes/Halloween costumes/Christmas sweaters on their pets should be banned from owning a pet.
Being judgy over other people’s preferences is a pointless waste of time and should be kept to oneself
I am mildly amused the post the title refers to has dropped way below the 40 post cutoff. It was likely deliberate click-bait.
Half of these are just food preferences....when did "I like this thing" or "I don't like this thing" become a controversial opinion? I came here looking for viewpoints like "Marriage should be abolished" or "Organ donation after death should be mandatory" not "I think coffee tastes bad".
Ugh, thank you! This entire thread reads like a bunch of teenagers whining about how mainstream bad, edgy good.
Load More Replies... ...people who comment "...oh you obviously never had REAL whatsoever..." under each post when someone don't like something.
I was going to say exactly this. It's supremely arrogant to assume their version of whatever the item in question is is the legitimate version. I once commented that I wasn't a big fan of pizza and then had someone say "well, you've obviously never had real NY pizza". Um, yes I have, several times. Still didn't change my personal stance toward pizza in general
Load More Replies... Anyone who makes one aspect of their lives/personality in your face are annoying. I get it man, you like weed, are gay, from the USA etc. Woo. Let's talk about how awesome animals are instead
I thought these were supposed to be unpopular opinions. Why do I agree with almost all of them?
I can't stand the trend of inserting the word "like" 3 x in one bloody sentence.
Is it still 'a trend' though? I remember people doing that since I was a child, and I'm now middle aged.
Load More Replies... I think it's horrifying that true crime stories are entertainment. These are real people with real families who have to keep living their lives while thousands of people pick apart the most awful events they've dealt with. Even if some of the family members are guilty, there are others who still have to see all the headlines and deal with people whispering behind their backs or asking them questions.
Forgetting someone's name that you just met or recently met is a HUGE insult and a massive social Faux Pas!!! I'm sorry, I'm simply TERRIBLE with remembering names (but I never forget a face). I'm never personal offended when someone forgets my name. I'm Josh, not a very hard name to forget, but it does happy. I simply and politely remind them. Why is that such a big deal???
Well, let's see how well THIS goes. I'm a 50yr old guy, single and no kids. When I was 7 I saw "STAR WARS" when it first came out and it was BEYOND AMAZING!! I love collecting a lot of the toys and memorabilia to put up on display. I even still have some of the toys from back in the day and I TRULY treasure them, it makes me happy. I don't sit around and play with them. Just having them brings back such fond memories of my childhood. How lucky I was to live in an age when kids used your imagination to play, which I feel is a thing of the past, everything's video games (and that's fine, I'm not judging). I built STAR WARS LEGO'S from time to time, though not often. It's just a silly little hobby I enjoy. But there seems to be SOOO many people who judge people like myself, that it's juvenile, that it's time to "grow up." I just don't see the harm in it??
Nothing wrong with that!! I'm 41 gal married , and I love SpongeBob,I have no kids ! Lol
Load More Replies... My opion thats probably not popular is its none of my business if you have an opinion different from mine. I'm not always right either.
Other than morons committing any kind of crime--ANY KIND!---I plain and simply don't care what anyone else does. As long as it doesn't affect me or my church brethren, I just plain don't care. I help who I can, leave alone nearly everybody, and really prefer not to know who eats what because of why. People need to just shut up about their food preferences unless someone else asks them specifically....I have a huge load of allergies, so I always make my own food, and boy, do I get hassled at times! Just leave me alone, go eat your ham hocks and liver burgers, and we'll get along just fine.
I'm surprised I didn't see anyone say that they do not like b/w-films. Met so many ppl over the years claiming that b/w-films are bad or boring. They said this to me... a petson whose two fav films are Freaks and Nosferatu. Lol
I! LOVE!! "FREAKS!!!" I like "Nosferatu, but "FREAKS" is a misunderstood MASTERPIECE that's finally finding favor as a cult classic.
Load More Replies... People who put clothes/Halloween costumes/Christmas sweaters on their pets should be banned from owning a pet.
Being judgy over other people’s preferences is a pointless waste of time and should be kept to oneself
I am mildly amused the post the title refers to has dropped way below the 40 post cutoff. It was likely deliberate click-bait.
