What are some personal beliefs that you keep to yourself? PART 2

The song Purple Rain is a drag. Never liked it.

OP types n00b

Being gay is fucking shit. Gay men are unappealing, especially if you compare them to straight men. Seriously, given what's out there, you look at gay guys and after all the shit we have to put up with, that's what we get. I remember someone posting something similar a while back and they were completely right .

Feminism is a pile of dog crap. Women want equal rights when it suits them. Straight women run rings around straight men who just put up with it and would never admit to the having the same views.

r3 = The Ghost of Rush Limbaugh

[quote]OP: I think this was one of my favorite threads on DL.

But you're not sure?

Christ.

Oh, dear.

R3 has to be a troll, there's no way some self-loathing queen who thinks every gay in the world is unappealing would be on a gay board, that doesn't even make sense.

r6 he's an autogynephilic incel straight man who pretends he's female. He absolutely hates all gay people and wants to murder women.

"What are some personal beliefs that you keep to yourself?"

Eugenics is a good idea.

Some people want the COVID pandemic to last forever so they can always have a go-to excuse to be lazy and unsociable for the rest of their life.

The Biden administration is really bad for the Uyghurs

R2 and R5 the bus to take you to nursery school just pulled up.

r9 I AM that person. I don't want anyone to get sick or die of course, but I'm loving my "hermit with an excuse" life.

Sorry, carry on...

Meghan Markle is MTF and also a Russian plant set to destroy the BRF.

Bezos created the ChinaVirus

The White House is way too small. They should have gone ahead with the expansions being proposed in the 1850s that were eventually derailed by the Civil War and Lincoln's assassination. We shouldn't have to have state dinners crammed into the ballroom or outside on the lawn under a tent.

The President and their families shouldn't be charged for food in the White House when this country gleefully grants corporations the right to write off business lunches.

Public Schools should not obtain funds via property taxes. All school funds should come directly from the state government at a proportional rate based on the average number of students enrolled within the last five years.

All schools should have a gifted and talented program. General councilors should be available in every county and meet with with every child at least once a semester. Children that are placed in detention more than once should have to spend one of those periods in a group concealing session with their peers rather than sitting in a room for an hour doing nothing.

Basic high speed internet plan should be available for all families with children, but they will have to pay for the services during the summer months.

Children should be held back if they fail their grade's math courses or civics.

Without getting into details, I don't think the demographics of hard (mathematics, physics, computer science) and easy (education, sociology, communication) college majors are completely arbitrary -- with the exception of business.

r17 kind of speaks to my post on the last thread that men are slightly more intelligent than women. (I think.)

Powerball and Mega Million should posted the net lottery prize instead of the pre-tax gross lottery prize amount.

Tax should be included in the price of all items. No more surprises.

Religious people are dumb. The more religious, the dumber.

1000% anecdotal, r20, but the most brilliant member of my academic department is a practicing Catholic. Also, my biological mother (I'm adopted) has a professionally tested IQ that is very high; the psychologist who administered the test said it was the highest score he'd ever personally tested. She taught herself to read Japanese, but was a high school drop out. She has also been a fundamentalist Christian most of her adult life, and a creationist to boot.

Not saying that there aren't generalizations at play; but I think there is a bit more nuance to it.

r20 a belief in religion is a security blanket against our impending end. Most of us aren't happy accepting that we will become nothing at the end of our lives. Religion gives many people piece and hope as they drift off into their long sleep.

I didn't enjoy the Donald Trump years, but mostly because I knew he was temperamentally unsuitable (putting it mildly) and was setting back the causes that he espoused. I don't agree with illegal immigration, I don't agree with outsourcing jobs overseas, I don't agree with neverending foreign interventionism, I don't agree that transwomen are women. But because of the entirely predictable shitshow that was the Trump administration, all of those issues have been ceded.

Well, you can see why I keep it to myself.

I always loved the Mark Twain quip, "Religion is deciding to believe what you know ain't true."

Fraus love AIDS because they finally got to persecute Gays to the fullest extent and go “see, they’re nasty!”

Rampant crazed criminal drug addicts sleeping on the street and terrorizing people should be ethically euthanized.

Most people protesting at the Capitol were indeed behaving legally...and yet they were still stupid to believe the election was stolen. The heavy media focus on just the evildoers inadvertently added legitimacy to questioning the election's results.

Log Cabin Republicans actually did help normalize homosexuality for many of the GOP, and helped enhance the cause toward gay rights.

Most GOP members, as misguided as their beliefs may be at times, just want lower taxes and stability, are legitimately afraid of overspending by the government, and wish for things in the media to not be so crazy - these folks are relieved that Cheeto is gone, and really hope Biden will be more balanced.

Being a fabulous and irreverent drag queen or any kind of media celeb does not make you anywhere as talented as a really great singer or dancer. Our community and our allies worship drag queens and divas more than truly talented artists - who never see the light of day because they are eclipsed by all the larger than life performers out there with good agents.

Most people are fucking idiots -easily manipulated and endlessly gullible. That truism accounts for Republicans, religious zealots, and tattoos.

Women are second class citizens, even if some have a pampered existence- like lap dogs. Even if some are overpowering bitches. Men who say women enjoy playing the victim- for fun!- are just men. What would they know what it’s like to be a woman.

Men have the real power.

R28 all Womyn are free to leave Datalounge with their ATM pussies.

R29 What on earth is an Ass-to-Mouth pussy? I am astonished. That's three holes in one!

I feel that " Laundry Pods " are a gimmick and powdered detergent is far superior

Keurig is nothing but a repackaged espresso machine and is wasteful.

bottled water is wasteful

Hot sex comes in all shapes , colors and sizes despite what Instagram tells us

The " Woke" movement needed to understand the action of a few forms an opinion on the majority. They will never be able to erase those opinions hold regarding race, sex and transgenderism. We can laws but we cannot erase how people think or feel.

Men need to do what men need to do. The environment of toxic masculinity and enforced feminist political agendas is demeaning to men resulting them in getting their needs met in other ways.

If you are morbidly obese you have contributed to it in some fashion

Boomers are dealing with aging better than millennials and Gen X will .

No single person living alone should need more than 1000 square feet.

Oh good, another race-baiting thread. Just what DL needed.

R15 is genuinely interesting. A bit different than what you usually find on these threads

Most, if not all, of the 'MeToo' women are transactionally-minded whores. Weinstein and the others simply helped themselves to what those women were serving them on a silver platter.

Most of the sexual harassment claims making headlines are bull$hit stunts for attention and/or political destruction.

The fist bump between Kamala and Obama looked bad.

Most trans folk are very much hung up on gender issues and gender expression.

If you can truly accept yourself as a man with 'feminine' qualities, AND can accept that the concept of 'femininity is for women only' is a truly bullshit motif, then you wouldn't want to have surgery in order to verify your own 'feminine' qualities. You would just accept yourself as a man with various traits, like any other man, and wouldn't need to label yourself as a woman, trapped in a man's body or otherwise, in order to sign up for said bullshit motif.

MIA IS BITCH.

But I keep it to myself.

I truly believe that without exception all trans are mentally ill. Their imagining that they are the opposite sex trapped in the wrong body are delusional.

R36, did you like the shoulder bump that Miss Lindz gave Kamala after the election? Made my heart pine for Lady G's good ole days when Daddy McCain kept him in line.

Somewhere inside of him is a decent person - slowly dying. Well, not so slow... He's the opposite of Dorian Gray since he's still so lovely and funny, yet so evil inside.

Babies are not pure. They actually represent the worst of humanity - they are selfish, self absorbed, caring about nothing but themselves. As they should be to survive.

Humans have to be socialized to learn how to be nice and treat each other respectfully. Hate is just as natural as love. We don’t have to be taught how to hate - just WHAT to hate. But we are born with the capacity to hate.

Humans are social pack animals. The surest way to start a war is draw a line. Humans will choose a side and find a reason to hate and attack the other side while defending and exalting their own. Color, race, nationality, sex are all just easy markers to use when picking a side. We even make up reasons to divide ourselves - ie sports teams. We actually naturally want division. Humanity will never be one.

As said above I believe gender reassignment surgery actually goes against everything Trans people are fighting for. Why on one hand would work to tear down gender norms then go ahead and mutilate your body just to confirm them? All girls must have boobs.

Instead I think trans people should be working towards the idea that some women have penises and some men have vaginas thus erasing the idea that a particular gender HAS to look a certain way. No one is trapped in a body. Just trapped in the idea of what a body should look like.

R42 especially when you consider gender reassignment surgery is purely cosmetic. You aren’t changing anything on a cellular level. Trans women don’t get periods or have wombs to carry children. Trans men don’t ejaculate semen. When on the operating table, a surgeon is still going to need to know if they are physically dealing with a male or female body.

R40 - he only gave her that bump because the poor old thing gets confused after a few drinks and Kamala's large head turned him on as much as Laura Ingraham's deep voice and Man Coulter's Adam's apple. With Miss Lindz you KNOW Laura was the top.

I also agree with R20. I instantly lose respect for and interest in anyone who says they are deeply religious. And if they are also gay and deeply religious - I completely dismiss them as if they don't exist.

R41, my mother used to say the exact same thing about babies.

Your last point gives me much to ponder!

I can just imagine all of the bigotry, racism, misogyny and transphobia contained on the 1st thread.

Apparently, R47. I opened this thinking it was going to be interesting but it was just another excuse for an anti trans thread.

Race is not a social construct.

R48 Why, it's almost as though the T isn't welcome and should form its own group, rather than seeking to parasitically attach itself to the LGB community and their successes!

R17 and r18, The "demographics" have zero to do with inherent intelligence and everything to do with how many males today cannot deal well with academic subjects that are less rigid, less absolute, less "one correct answer," less open to discussion or debate, less "true or false,"" less "provable," less observable or tangible than mathematics, engineering, and the "hard" sciences of physics, chemistry, etc. .

That is to say, the humanities, art, philosophy, literature, poetry, music---no matter the innumerable works of genius by men in these areas---are often scornex by male students at all educational levels. They want "the right answer," frequently asking in exasperation, "What should we write down?!"

But one cannot overlook societal factors---such as the governmental advocacy of "STEM" academic subjects, career prestige, and salaries---which might influence males more than females (which outlook can include that whole "family and child-bearing" thing).

[quote]The "demographics" have zero to do with inherent intelligence

Completely taking gender out of the equation, do you really want to argue that it is equally difficult to write a dissertation in, say, higher education and analytic number theory? That it requires the same degree of complex reasoning and mental energy? That, all else being equal, any person picked at random from society would find earning a BA/BS in education/mathematics requires comparable levels of intelligence?

Also, just a few generations ago, all humanities fields were dominated by men. The shift of men to STEM can't be pinned solely on male students' desire for the "right answer." I've found some of my most percipient students (male and female) come from STEM majors.

As someone with a PhD in the humanities (literature), I find myself frustrated with the lack of intellectual rigor that has infected many disciplines, especially at the undergraduate level. I wrote a long post about this recently but am disinclined to look for it at the moment.

I completely blame Hillary Clinton for the election of Donald Trump. That accusations about Benghazi had merit. And when Clinton said, "I take full responsibility" for Benghazi — Clinton didn't... And that's why Trump won.