“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.
The huntsman in Okinawa looked like they were doing dressage [shudder]
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Spiders are wonderful things. We've got two currently hiding around the house somewhere - a house spider we've named Coffee because the brown of his hairs is coffee coloured, and a cobweb female we've named Speckles because she's all speckled.
There is (hopefully still alive) a small reddish spider in my apartment which stubbornly kept walking to the center of a wall, where it was perfectly visible. Especially for cats. I saved his life a few times by throwing him behind the cupboard. I named him Darwin ;)
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hate spiders, but they are essential to the gardens ecosystem. never kill an animal because you don't like it or it was doing something that's natural. respect animals. we aren't the only species on the planet.
In small numbers, they're great. Around here they're sometimes beautiful. We catch huntsmen spiders and put them out in the garden. Jumping spiders are great fun, and harmless. We allow daddy longlegs to live inside the house for up to six months. When the density of spiders exceeds about ten per cubic metre, though.
spiders are awesome little creatures, especially jumping spiders which are dare I say it very cute
My friend had a tarantula for YEARS. Scared the poop out of me when he put the 'shedding' next to me when I didn't know that they shed their whole covering!
i physically can't! I've tried but I have such severe arachnophobia I literally almost throw up everytime there's a spider near me.
Yeah, no. To creepy, you couldn't pay me to stay in a room with multiple spiders. I see a spider, I RUN! They are TERRIFYING! (I have arachnophobia, so don't say I'm being immature, plus, I just became a teen last month.)
I was like that at your age. What got me over my phobia was to learn about spiders, you read about them without photos, so no triggers. The wast majority is completely harmless to humans. In any case, as long as you don't feel like you need to kill them, running away is the best option
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It is my life mission to save the spiders. They kill the bigger nastier bugs. They literally exterminate your home for free.
YUP! There's some neat and very peaceable and yes, funny Spiders out there!
yay...we relocate them from our house to the garden...no free loaders here :)
Everything is connected and here for a reason. Who does man think he is eliminating this and that because he doesn’t like the way they look? Or call them a nuisance. We are the nuisance. The world needs to lose humans.
The first reaction is to always swat or stomp. Is it a learned behavior or instinct?
I like spiders although I deeply dear their ninja abilities and also I would nag my parents cat's for hunting them
Many people have jumping spiders as pets. And in kind, many jumping spiders take on humans as their pets.
They are basically wall cats. Intelligent, sometimes scary and feed on annoying animals in your house.
I don't like them, but I understand they have a purpose. More than I do.
I used to have a daddy long legs living under my toilet. I called him Papa. He was chill. Not as cool as the black widow in the shower though.
Spiders are amazing and keep flies and mosquitoes and all the really annoying things away. They don't try to get in your food and they don't carry disease. Most venomous spiders are easily identifiable and don't go out of their way to harm people. They are one of the least problematic animals I can think of and don't deserve the hate.
I understand intellectually their use and helpfulness. I really do. But I'm sorry, they petrify me and I get bitten quite a bit, so we purposefully try to keep them away from inside our home.
Love spiders. When I was old enough got my first tarantula too! Had her for 18 years before she died. Got others now too.
I like them too but I prefer they simply live outside. If you lived in Australia you would understand this point of view :)
I get a lot of hate when I express my love for spiders, glad I'm not alone in the pro-spider camp!
I, too, like spiders. I also have deep respect for cockroaches and rats because they have proven to be incredibly adaptable to whatever conditions humans create (or should I say destroy?).
I give them a chance based on their size. I've let little ones take space in my home before, but if it's bigger than a dime, you get a paper plate and cup and a kind farewell at the front garden.
We would not want to live in a world without spiders!!! And jumping spiderd are AWESOME!!!
I love spiders, some people at work tell me when they see one so I can catch and release it, they used to just smash them.
Spiders are awesome. They eat all the nasty gnats and biting insects that drive me berzerk in summer. I understand if your local spiders are poisonous that you want to avoid them, but don't kill them. They don't know what they are doing is wrong, they are just living their lives.
I once had an orb spider that kept building a web in front of my door. I would run into it every morning and completely destroy it with my face. Day after day it kept rebuilding it and I would keep running into it. Finally after a few days of this, I stopped short of the web on my way out and carefully removed the portions of the web that I would have hit if I kept walking while leaving the remainder of the web intact. Not only did the spider not build the web in middle of the walkway again, it built a crazy elaborate asymmetrical web completely off to the side and out of the way. I was like "holy c**p! I just had a mutual compromise with a spider!"
I work in a booth in a parking lot. Not a week goes by that I don't see some new types of spiders to photograph and maybe video. It's hard to identify species, though. My field guide is not optimal.
Jumping spiders are adorable. The other ones are kinda creepy, but mostly cool.
Don't like 'em, but I always try to get them outside. Generally by using hubby as the removal method.
I like them outside or invisible. In theory they are fine. I just ask my hubby to put them outside tyvm.
Spiders only go where there is food. If you have spiders in your house, you have bugs. If you kill the spiders, you guarantee the bugs a chance to infest your whole house. Clean your house, the spiders will leave on their own.
Spiders are cool. Centipedes, on the other hand, are proof that if there is a God, he's an A-hole. If you live up north where centipedes are teensy little things, I live where scolependra gigantea lives. It can take down small vertebrates.
The only spider I can tolerate in my house is a daddy longleg. All other have to go.
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
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.
