That was the Twitter hashtag trending last week. Being that unpopular opinions are my forte, I immediately began cataloging mine. Here’s ten, the majority of which are sure to bunch some panties and chafe sensitive hides.
- Video games contribute to societal violence.
- The importance of a “college education” is really over-hyped.
- Affirmative action perpetuates racism.
- Erotic romance readers are the most nasty, viscous, defensive genre readers on the planet.
- Tarantino’s “Pulp Fiction” is way over-rated.
- Despite what ESPN said, Michael Jordan wasn’t CLOSE to being the best athlete ever.
- Nutella is kinda nasty.
- The Hunger Games was a chick flick.
- It is unladylike for a woman to cuss.
- People who play the lottery are generally bad with their money.
Pretty unpopular, eh? But that’s not all! As an added bonus, here’s ten more unpopular opinions.
- Marijuana IS a gateway drug.
- Vampires will always be far more interesting than zombies.
- Christian fiction readers are by-and-large unsophisticated readers.
- George Clooney is a pretty average actor.
- Mayonnaise is the best condiment.
- People who emphasize tolerance and love are often the most intolerant, unloving, mean people you will ever meet.
- Much contemporary advice on raising kids results in child-worship.
- The WNBA is unwatchable.
- America has done far more good in the world than evil.
- Caramel over chocolate, any day.
And there’s plenty more where that came from.
I’m too tired to bunch or chafe today.
You will never find anyone you agree with 100% of the time, to expect such is unreasonable of anyone. I find, however, that I’m actually agreeing with you on about 90% of these. I only question your position on vampires vs zombies and am not yet sure on how much I believe video games contribute to violence, other than that that, you’re pretty spot on. (Well, except for your willingness to emblazon your post with images of Obama. That’s wrong.)
Disagree on the video games. And I imagine you might get some major flak for saying…MAYO is the best condiment. I would argue that ketchup lovers are FAR more rabid in their devotion, applying THEIR condiment to everything under the sun.
Caramel lovers unite! Chocolate–bleh!
I actually agree with you on a lot of these–most of them, in fact. (I’m with the others, though, on video games, but shall not debate that here.)
I hate ketchup, so I can kinda side with ya on mayo.
Nutella IS nasty, but it magically turns into fudge if you refrigerate it.
#9 of list one makes me want to cuss at you :P.
The racism and tolerance things…I’m reading a YA book right now that has an atheist lesbian who is afraid to come out because of bullying, a wiccan slut rock-star-wanna-be, and an annoyingly wimpy Christian boy (who is always being called “f*ggot” because he’s so well-dressed) trying to catch a serial murderer (who is a witch) in a tiny town that is somehow ridiculously ethnically diverse (and everyone’s race MUST be highlighted). I feel like I’m in some Twilight Zone version of an after-school special…
And lastly–I *hate* zombies.
You are so wrong. Chocolate always wins over caramel (except in the case of fast-food sundaes, but that’s only chocolate-flavoured, not real chocolate).
I’d like to disagree with you about erotic romance readers, but to make an effective argument, I’d have to find a group that are worse and I can’t.
On Christian fiction readers: at least we read.
I agree with most of your opinions, actually. How’s that for boring? But I’m curious about #3 on your bonus list.
Are you saying that Christian fiction readers are an unsophisticated lot as far as personality/lifestyle or that what they choose to read and/or how they read it is unsophisticated (implying they prefer easy-to-understand material and/or don’t know a metaphor from a shoelace )?
Mike, you are awesome. 🙂
I will have to disagree with you on the chocolate vs caramel front, but only provided that the chocolate in question is 70% (or higher!) cocoa, and doesn’t contain anything weird, like chili pepper. But, you know. Aside from that… 😛
Mayo is the best condiment?
You have an unsophisticated palate! 🙂
Twenty more reasons that this my favorite new blog discovery of the summer.
SMG
What, Mike, you hadn’t pissed enough people off, so you decided to branch out? I was willing to extend you love and tolerance until you got to Nutella, but that ship has sailed. I would drop a few f-bombs in here, but I am above all a lady.
I’m giggling over the misspelling in number four of the first group of ten of “vicious” as “viscous.” Or was that correct? Viscous: Having a thick, sticky consistency between solid and liquid; having a high viscosity.
🙂
The WNBA seems to do well enough here, but Connecticut has a history of liking women’s basketball since the Uconn Huskies were so dominant (and the men less so.) The Connecticut Sun seems to fill the house each time they have games.
I’m a werewolf guy myself. It’s a little hard to be one now since the erotic romance novel people try to make them into memetic sex gods all the time, but I’ve always though that werewolves show the contradiction between human and animal or righteousness and sin well.
Wait; don’t you write Christian fiction?
“People who emphasize tolerance and love are often the most intolerant, unloving, mean people you will ever meet.”
THIS.
This has not been my experience, but I think the word “emphasize” is key. The truly tolerant and loving people are usually the quieter ones—not needing to emphasize anything because tolerance and love emerge organically from their character.
Interesting list here, Mike. I agree with most of them except for:
List(top)
#’s 1,3, and 4
Bonus List(these I disagree with also):
#’s 3,9, and 10
But, thanks for the list!
I agree with a lot of those… and with some of them, I’ve had no experience, so I can’t really say either way, lol.
On the issues of video games, though… Is it the actual video games that contribute to societal violence, or the sad fact that parents expect video games to babysit/raise their children during their most formative years?
I agree on a lot of those except the chocolate part. :o) College education is over-hyped and a propaganda machine for liberals.
Ok, here goes the pacifist:
Actually chocolate and carmel are great together. 🙂
There must be something wrong with me. I agree with you on all 20 points.
Agree with the college education one, though I am college educated. I love mayonnaise too: it can go on/in so many things.
Is “chick flick” supposed to be an insult? I generally hate the insults that use the feminine as being bad, i.e. “throw like a girl.” Eh, whatever. More of an insult is a “made for Lifetime” movie, at least to me, and I can’t really insult things I generally have no desire to watch. Did you like “Hunger Games” even if you thought it was a chick flick? Or does chick flick mean “unwatchable” or “bad” to you?
I don’t think it is good for anyone to cuss, no matter the gender. To use similar words as yours, I think it is ungentlemanly for a man to cuss.
I’ve also seen a lot of contemporary advice that doesn’t advocate child-worship, which has impressed me. I think a number of people have seen the folly of child-worship.
Disagree about the Christian readers one. I mean, there are a number of readers that are unsophisticated, sure, but that isn’t limited to just Christians. I think it runs across the board. Plus, is it always bad to be unsophisticated? Unsophisticated: Lacking refined worldly knowledge or tastes; not complicated or highly developed. Synonyms for unsophisticated: simple – artless – naive – innocent – ingenuous. I mean, everyone can’t be sophisticated, and would we want a world in which no one was? In a world in which no one was perceived as “lacking,” how would we learn compassion, how to see our own weaknesses? Honestly, I think pretty much everyone is both sophisticated and unsophisticated depending on what you are talking about. If there are sophisticated readers, well, there are probably going to be unsophisticated ones as well.
A lot of these I have no opinion on as I do not know enough about them to have an opinion: don’t know any erotic romance readers or care to know them, have no intention of watching “Pulp Fiction,” don’t know much about sports and how Michael Jordan ranks, never ate Nutella, don’t watch anything with George Clooney, and don’t watch the WNBA (or NBA, either).
Number one in the first section is just wrong. Studies repeatedly show that people who play a lot of video games are often venting aggression they would otherwise displace elsewhere. If anything, more people should be playing them.