Opinions you keep secret

A colleague of mine who I think is terrible, but our boss seems to think he's great, so I keep quiet in case I look like I'm trying to meddle.

I think my boss will figure it out in time...

I really despise this guy who lives near me, but my other neighbors seem to think he's wonderful.

I think my fuck buddy is a terrible kisser, but he's good at everything else. He does that weird tongue stabbing instead of kissing, so I try to avoid it. He's super nice, and I want us to keep fucking so I don't say anything about the weird kissing.

I don't even like my friends all that much, but at this point I'm stuck with them.

I'm tired of obesity being the "new normal."

I hate the sun.

I think my boyfriend's older brother doesn't like him. He's always rude and dismissive of him, and the colder he is the more my boyfriend seeks his approval. It can be hard to watch.

He'd only be upset to hear it, and it's not my place to meddle. I vaguely raise the issue by addressing his need to be liked all the time.

I think my straight guy friend is too sophisticated for his frumpy wife

I generally tend to speak my mind however sometimes it's really not worth the hassle. The 2 most common times for me are 1-with people so set in their ideology they are incapable of rational/objective thought and 2- friends/family with kids with questionable parenting decisions.

That A.I., still in its infancy, can already write, reason, and innovate better than the average American because we’ve been purposely dumbed down by corporate capitalism through media, advertising, and the policies of corrupt politicians who are in collusion with it all.

Hillary should've been the Dem candidate to be the POTUS in 2008.

I dumped her because I got starry-eyed over Obama, the new kid in the classroom.

That liberals/progressives are more obsessed with Trump than Magas.

I think wine is a waste of money and an excuse to catch a buzz.

Obama, whom I voted for, always seemed quite full of himself.

Religiosity is the most widely accepted and encouraged mental illness.

Wine IS a waste of money and an excuse to catch a buzz and I LOVE IT

Black people create their own problems but blame it on everyone else

Welfare is one of the worst thing for poor people.

Klan grannies REPRESENT

People who rewrite history should be called out publicly. That includes those people--both trans and not--who claim that "cis" gay men owe their rights to black trans women since trans people started Stonewall.

It is fine to look down on people who are so insular that they only watch superhero movies, never read and think that someone like Post Malone constitutes quality music.

People who make their gayness the central component of their identity / personality / persona are usually really dull and uninteresting. Substitute sports-fan / motherhood for the straights - same deal.

Most people who declare pronoun preferences are dangerous and best avoided.

I am pro-choice - but with limitations. I think that abortions beyond first trimester should be heavily regulated.

R23, that is so true. Usually the ones obsessed with their gay identities are the ones who identify as "queer".

R14 I always laugh to myself at the flowery descriptions on wine bottles-- I taste normal red wine, not "delicate notes of chocolate and cinnamon." I keep quiet so as not to look unsophisticated, but a lot of wine culture is an emporer's new clothes kind of deal.

Both rehabilitation and prisons are necessary. Some on the left want way too much leniency for criminals.

Trans is not beautiful.

Badly behaved children are a product of poor parenting by people who want to be validated by their children. Children are not a substitute for a life of one’s own and they behaviour suffers badly when they feel like the most powerful person in their parents’ lives.

High school and college foreign language programs are a waste of money and should be eliminated from American public education unless bilingual immersion programs are introduced from K-6, when students have brains young enough to actually absorb a second language.

I have a similar opinion of my nephew's 3 year old. He is just loud, out of control, in his own little egotistical, hyper world all the time. I've tried to bond with him or at least spend time with them. I just can't.

As a professor, I wish I could tell students when they're not cut out to be doctors/lawyers/etc. Many of them just don't have the skill to make it through the super-competitive programs, and I've too often seen the same story of tears and frustration play out.

You can call me the bad guy, but the real bad guys are the business-minded administrators who take their money knowing they'll fail.

Some people just don't deserve to exist. There! I said it!!

R27 Yes. The wine pretensions are silly. Nothing wrong with catching a buzz, R17 Cheers.

BigotLounge thread

We need caning like in Singapore for low-level crimes like graffiti and vandalism, and public executions via guillotine or hanging for the more serious stuff like rape and murder and serious corruption.

What we're doing, warehousing people for years or decades in concrete cages at enormous cost, knowing they won't be rehabilitated but will just fuck up society even more when they get out, isn't working.

Autistic people shouldn't be able to vote in US presidential elections if they rewatch marvel movies

I know my coworker hates me because I took a job she thought she deserved. When I applied last year, I saw where the organization had searched for months for someone to do it. I thought I was helping them in addition to getting back in the field I want to be. Now through various pieces of information, I realize she wanted it and resents me. I do not let on that I figured it out and have tried to be empathetic but have started not to give a shit. Thankful we primarily work remotely. It does make me curious why she was not given the opportunity.

They shouldn’t put all the SPED kids in the regular classes. They’re disruptive and deprive the rest of the kids from being able to learn. Also I’m tired of the trend of gen Z claiming to be autistic. Autism is a serious disability, not a cute quirk that excuses your rudeness.

Everyone is stupid and the elites give zero fucks about anyone

R40 For real, my cousin teaches 3rd grade and there's this one autistic who's punched a little girl, hit a boy with his backpack, flipped desks over daily and all she can usually do is send him to the "calm down corner." He should not be in a normal classroom and it's dragging everyone down.

It's only her second year teaching but she's leaving the profession after this summer. With everything teachers have to deal with, I couldn't be happier for her.

Someone from my gym has the worst body odour ever. It is so bad, repulsive and strong that it fills the room and you can taste it. I want so badly to tell him to bathe once in awhile but I might get called a racist so I gag in silence.

George Floyd shouldn't have died that day, but, he was a drug addicted criminal who preyed upon everyone around him, his sainthood makes me want to vomit.

I think the US electorate has the government and Supreme Court it deserves. If people are too stupid or apathetic to vote against those who want to subvert democracy, they will reap what they sow.

English is the language of the United States - and international business and more. I do not care if you're bi-lingual, if you speak it at home, in your 'hood, at a social club, or in church. BUT being able to speak ENGLISH improves your employment and economic prospects, which improves many other aspects of your and my life.

I live in MA - illegal immigrants can now get a valid drivers' license. W.T.F?! They're ILLEGAL - if they step into a government facility, they should be detained. People are idiots; this was a voter =-approved ballot question in the last election!

I think life begins at conception. But will not stop women from having abortions. They have to live with the consequences and how they feel afterwards. Have your abortion; but you ended a life (I know it cannot survive outside your precious womb), but if you left the fetus alone, more often than not, you'd deliver a healthy baby.

Civics should be taught in 6th, 9th, and 12th grade. You cannot vote unless you get an 80 or better on the Civics final (and the exam should be as difficult as the US Naturalization exam used to be). You can take the test over and over until you do achieve an 80, but you cannot vote until you pass.

Cis men did riot at Stonewall... a crazy drag queen or two were present, but they were a tiny, tiny, tiny minority the first and subsequent evenings. DQs did not start the Gay Pride movement. And they did not march uptown in NYC to Central Park in such numbers that they were the first Gay Pride parade. Men were... men. Guys in tee shirt, jeans, shorts, with mustaches... men who wanted to fuck around with and love other MEN.

I better stop - I'm about to vent about Trans...

The breeding of brachycephalic dogs with abnormally shaped heads that cause breathing difficulties is abhorrent and should be illegal (French bulldogs, Shih Tzus, Boston terriers. etc.) Owners of these dogs tend to value how ”cute” they look over the suffering caused by the obstructed airways causes by their deformed skulls.

[quote] I think wine is a waste of money and an excuse to catch a buzz.

I think wine is no worse, as far as wasting money, as any other type of alcohol.

But I do think alcoholics who drink mid-range or expensive wine are the most delusional about their habit.

[quote] I think life begins at conception. But will not stop women from having abortions. They have to live with the consequences and how they feel afterwards. Have your abortion; but you ended a life (I know it cannot survive outside your precious womb), but if you left the fetus alone, more often than not, you'd deliver a healthy baby.

I've had an abortion. Consequences? Nope, try relief. And I didn't end a life. I preserved one - mine.

So, take your fucking "secret" and shove it.

Sanctimonious asshole.

R39 So what’s the “opinion” you wish to keep secret?

[quote] more often than not, you'd deliver a healthy baby.

Yeah, right.

Wine is extremely over-priced in the US, especially given the amount we produce.

[quote]I'm just waiting for her to grow out of it.

Why wait?

A reduction of 80% of the population of Homo sapiens would be good both for the planet and the species.

r42 [quote]For real, my cousin teaches 3rd grade and there's this one autistic who's punched a little girl, hit a boy with his backpack, flipped desks over daily and all she can usually do is send him to the "calm down corner." He should not be in a normal classroom and it's dragging everyone down.

Sounds like a bunch of DLers!

My secret opinion is that OP who wants everyone to spill their guts here so she can have a resource for tattling when she disagrees with someone's opinion 2 years in the future. "Everyone, R-whatever said in May 2023 that the US should have public flogging like Singapore! Clearly a Boris Klan Granny Nazi Racist Magat!"

I hate poor people. I really can’t stand to be around them.

I keep my opinion about gender being biological and not a choice from my very liberal friends. I think the trans movement is homophobic.

I don't understand animal rights activists who are so offended by people wearing fur. I would never wear fur, ever, but I would think animal rights activists would be more outraged at how animals are treated via commercial farming.

I think colorblind casting in period and historical pieces is a mistake and paints a picture of a world that didn't exist. You get a little more leeway with fictional characters, but I do think the original source material should be respected.

I'm right there with you, r54. Totally agree.

In an upcoming online book review, I'm going to mention that Clinton's poor political skills cost her the election, rather than blaming James Comey and "the Russians." Some acquaintances are going to be very displeased about this.

R46, I agree with you on Civics, but you can imagine what a minefield that would be in the current political climate. Really, it’s the parents’ job to teach their kids these things, with school/community reinforcing those values in the background.

There has been too much focus on character development in school, at the expense of reading, writing and arithmetic. People will say “that’s because it’s not being taught at home”, and they’d be right, but for the 70% of the kids who are being raised more or less correctly, it sucks. My kid’s’ school seems to spend a lot of class time on this and on ass-kissy PTA pep assemblies (the school is not hurting for anything). The character development stuff past age 10 or so has very little impact. 95% of those kids are lost causes by then.

On abortion, so many people feel like you do R46, and I’m surprised that you and your ilk have the time to post on social media about your beliefs, given that you must be very busy caring for all those disabled babies you’re all lining up to adopt, right? And helping out all those women pro-lifers say they’re going to “help” with the baby when it comes, the babies they’ve convinced women seeking abortions to keep, I’m sure you’re right there so they never get so overwhelmed they shake the baby they never wanted to death. And you must be busy babysitting those healthy newborns, too so mama doesn’t have to leave it with anyone unsavory who may throw it against the wall while she’s is pulling a double shift at the nursing home, right?

Oh wait, those are just lies they tell these young girls and women so they keep the baby. They don’t actually DO those things, do they?

R62 Does the phrase "day late and a dollar short" mean anything to you?

Oh, dear. “My kid’s school…”

And whatever else.

Homeschooling kids with normal traits hurts them by stunting them socially, causing insecurity and anxiety that can lead to mental illness. On the other hand, trying to mainstream kids who already have mental illness or brain abnormalities by placing them in a normal school (instead of homeschooling them or enrolling them in a special education program) hurts not only them, but everyone else involved.

It's weird to be into teen and barely legal porn. Nothing against young guys/girls being your type, but the youngest possible is a red flag and a dealbreaker.

People who do things for "something to do" need to be constantly entertained/distracted and are afraid to be alone.

Everyone who believes in religion is stupid. Even if they have a PhD, are great at other things, I still thin that they must be pretty fundamentally stupid. For obvious reasons this is not an opinion I can say out loud in most cases.

*think

Maybe not fundamentally stupid, but they've got a HUGE blind spot. People get indoctrinated at a very young age. Also, some people go through trauma or get drug addicted and then a belief in God becomes a life raft. Also, some people just aren't that strong, at their core. They need something to believe in.

R71 Fair enough, I think it's really about other things like those things.

[quote]Also, some people go through trauma or get drug addicted and then a belief in God becomes a life raft.

Or they’ve transferred their addiction to a spiritual mania. I’ve noticed this in many self-styled spiritual gurus like Russell Brand, Jordon Peterson, and the My Pillow guy.

[quote]Opinions you keep secret

All of them.

A friend and I work in the same office. She has always been a basket case, but sweet. Now she’s becoming a compulsive liar to try and get her most current boyfriend to marry her. I don’t want to work with her anymore. I don’t want to be around her.

Mutual friends have voiced their opinions about her behavior. I’ve kept my mouth shut.

Also, I think anyone totally rabid and opinionated about politics needs a life.

The wealthier my friends become, the more overtly leftwing they proclaim to be on social issues. However, almost without exception they vehemently reject any leftwing economic policy which would see them pay one penny more in taxes.

I don’t dare tell them that my opinions are directly the opposite of theirs. They pat themselves on the back for wanting to facilitate immigration, and trans rights, and make it more difficult to keep criminals locked up, safe in the knowledge that their cash insulates them from the consequences of their decisions.

R76 To be fair, immigration is considered good for the economy though. Cheap labor.

[quote]I don’t dare tell them that my opinions are directly the opposite of theirs.

Why? Afraid they won't pick up the tab this time?

The problems with schools lie not with the teachers (for the most part), but with the PARENTS.

If they haven't trained a kid at home to sit, listen, and learn — charter schools, dissolving the teachers' unions, providing "vouchers" ... none of it will matter.

The U.S. is far too caught up with the notion of "parental rights" and not "parental responsibilities."

[quote] Why? Afraid they won't pick up the tab this time?

I’m every bit as wealthy as the vast majority of them. - I just haven’t forgotten what it feels like to be poor.

This place really sucks

Why, you're a martyr r80! A Christian martyr!

R79, Parents want teachers to be everything to the student--counselor, therapist, teacher, nurse, parent, etc. There's now way a teacher can or should be all that. It's not the teacher's job to parent. And they definitely aren't paid enough to do all that shit.

I think for myself, so I actually have to keep most of my opinions secret if I want to be around other people socially or at my job. Mostly because I don't feel like arguing or defending my opinions with people who don't do a lot of thinking. Many people just have opinions they get from others, or TV. "Group think." I have to keep that opinion secret too, of course.

So, to sum it up, basically we're all just a bunch of introverts.

I have to keep some of my opinions secret even on DL because of the screeching hall monitors here

R83 They also expect us to have specialized knowledge in learning/behavioral disorders and combat, in the case of an active shooter.

More of the "I forgot the baby in the hot car and it died" cases should be investigated as homicides.

I wouldn't mind if the US started using AI in classrooms, like what's happening in China. I have no kids and I'm sick of hearing parents complain about public schools. Put your kids in a private school or home school them if you don't like it.

I don't like dogs

I look down on people who don’t like to read.

R87, it's wild to me that there are no active shooter drills in schools. No teacher should have to put up with that. Teachers are essentially treated as sacrificial lambs.

R90 I’ve met very few dogs I’d want to own. Give me a cat any day.

No child should be allowed to access a computer before the age of 16. They have had a profound effect on human behaviour, and it has not been for the better.

That should say "now", not no.

Keeping cats or dogs in your home is inadvisable because they are both filthy.

[quote]More of the "I forgot the baby in the hot car and it died" cases should be investigated as homicides.

Ditto for “My toddler fell into the pool and drowned” cases.

snicker.. I'd say that cats are cleaner than humans.

Cats on the kitchen counters is not cute.

Cats shitting on a tray in your home is not endearing.

R98 snicker

R88 You have blown my mind. I always thought it was bizarre that 'honey I boiled the kid' was treated like some understandable oversight, but hell, maybe because it wasn't?

One of the biggest failings of modern education is managing to convince a whole generation that Wikipedia is an unreliable source. Wikipedia is a practically unlimited source of free knowledge which is constantly being monitored by an army of nerds.

The fact that we do not have to pay for access is a miracle.

(Near enough) every article has a full and reliable list of references at the bottom.

I understand that students should be encouraged use the references at the bottom for true research but this is not taught. Students are simply told ‘Stay away from Wikipedia, anyone can change it, it’s completely unreliable’.

DNR (do-not-resuscitate) should be the default in health care, while “do resuscitate” should be a special order made by the patient if they are willing to prolong an agonizing death after having their ribs broken by useless CPR attempts and other life-prolonging medical interventions.

^^ or should I say “death-prolonging” interventions.

[quote] No child should be allowed to access a computer before the age of 16. They have had a profound effect on human behaviour, and it has not been for the better.

Right on, r94.

And I bet you know already that it's the billionaire tech titans themselves, that ones that created social media cesspools and the internet, who forbid their own children from being on social media and they severely limit their internet time, too.

They shield their own children from the cyber-poison they invented but don't mind making their billions off the children of the masses.

And according to an anonymous teacher who taught at a very exclusive, expensive, private school where tech billionaires send their kids, the parents insist that the students are forbidden to have any cell phone devices while at school and their computer access is very limited, except when necessary, to teach.

She said that like most other high school students of any income bracket, their field trips are to art and science museums, they take hikes, attend classical music concerts, operas, etc. but the students cannot have any devices on them.

The only personnel that are allowed cell devices are security guards the teachers, in case of an emergency.

Somebody once wrote in the NY Times comments section that a status symbol among the super-wealthy, elite kids is to have no history whatsoever of any social media presence.

Carry on, suckers.

No, R64, compared with you I'm apparently incredibly stupid.

Santa Claus is a reductive fable about a vengeful God who rewards “good” children with material goods while giving nothing to “bad” kids, who are usually poor and/or non-Christian.

R108 I dare you to speak that aloud at your Christmas party, right in front of the tree. It would be hilarious.

Mobile phones should be banned from the classroom.

At least you're right about something, R107.

[quote]I dare you to speak that aloud at your Christmas party, right in front of the tree.

I do that every year, R109, while dressed as Linus from Peanuts.

That Political Correctness is killing comedy. It's killing one way that people cope with awful shit.

People do NOT taste like chicken.

Here a fuck there a suck everywhere a suck fuck

[r54] Vicktor Cassidine

No — I do not want to read the rough draft of your script/novel/autobiography, etc. so I can give you my feedback about it.

Homeless people piss me off.

R118

Huge numbers of people are in relationships because they fear societal judgement or being alone. Most of these people would be happier if they were single.

Funerals are a con. Visiting graves is idiotic. Wasting good money on graves is insane.

My sister has two teen daughters, one is slightly autistic and the other one is just a mean kook. They never bother with me unless it is Christmas when they come looking for gifts. They're in high school, I think I can stop with all that now.

I know a big handful of MtFs "trans", all complete loons.

R121, my parents told me that when they die, they just want me to cremate their bodies and throw the ashes away or something along those lines. All that stuff is a business and I'm not paying all that!

I despise people who do drugs as a way to "party". I find it loathsome. Our country has a massive drug epidemic and the thought of doing drugs just as a way to have "fun" sickens me.

I hate trees. I hate people.

If I see someone blathering into the phone in the supermarket or such, I immediately assume they're low IQ and not particularly interesting.

Were workhouses really such a bad idea? Why can't we have an ethical modern version where if you want public benefits, housing, etc., and you are able-bodied, you are placed in a community where you learn skills, have a job, and are a part of making that community work and thrive.

We need to bring back the mental hospitals and lower the threshold for involuntary commitment. It is ridiculous that you can't safely walk around many US cities without the threat of being assaulted by some lunatic.

"Woke" remakes of existing shows are cringey as hell. There is nothing wrong with representing minorities, but can't you get some new fucking material?

I don't believe black cock is better or bigger than any other.

I am afraid of crossing paths with 4 or more teenagers. I don't care about their ethnicity or gender. They are frightening.

I despise stupid people who wallow in their own ignorance.

R108 I’m non-Christian therefore I don’t celebrate Christmas and Santa never left gifts for my sons.

Wouldn’t you expect that of non-Christians?

Those people who put "no asians" on their hookup profiles have no idea what they are missing!

I sometimes secretly believe everyone should be temporarily sterilized before puberty and only permitted to reproduce after obtaining sufficient education, stable employment/income, housing, and passing a parental license exam.

That’s a GREAT idea, R134.

You’ve got my vote!

I really think Meghan Markle is overreacting and should have been more prepared for the Royal family treatment but my friends and entire family are team Meghan, so I pretend to be pro Meghan

R69 totally agree. Religious people drive me bonkers. They are dumb af.

R134 and R135, you are essentially describing eugenics. Nazi stuff.

Maybe better to keep those thoughts to yourself.

Aside from AIDS, Trans are the worst thing that has ever happened to the Gay Community. The Trans Community doesn't want equal rights, they want more rights. They are biological men who want to play dress up and go into the Womens Restrooms to prance around and piss off the straights.

You think I'm gonna tell you lot? Not on yer nelly!

r138 Correct. It is 100% eugenics and unethical which is why at the same time I would fight to the death to prevent anything that draconian from ever being implemented in society.

But damn it, one trip to Wal-Mart seeing several broods of unruly children and their ineffective, braindead, parents and God help me if the thought doesn't idly cross my mind.

I think white White Women can be extremely self-involved, whether SJWs or conservative bigots, and completely annoying.

I feel like the fat scooters at grocery stores should have blocker sensors that prevent them from going down the candy aisle.

I don't feel bad for women in the way that government limits their reproductive and civil rights at all. Not even a little. Women are the majority of voters in every state and nationwide, no Republican asswipe could get elected dog catcher unless they receive lots of votes from women, and they get millions of them! Dummies!

UK here. Brexit has been an unmitigated disaster. Everyone knows it, but it has become a taboo topic because it so easily exposes xenophobic feelings in people who otherwise regard themselves as open minded and tolerant. I avoid any discussion of it because people can’t take responsibility for the chaos they voted for, and tend to erupt when they have no valid argument other than prejudice.

[quote] I don't feel bad for women in the way that government limits their reproductive and civil rights at all. Not even a little. Women are the majority of voters in every state and nationwide, no Republican asswipe could get elected dog catcher unless they receive lots of votes from women, and they get millions of them! Dummies!

What about the ones who are too young to vote? 10 year old rape victims being forced to carry a baby to term doesn't bother you?

I’m from the UK too. Brexit is a disaster, economically and diplomatically, but it is a valid choice. I voted against it, and it has made the UK poorer and life a little more difficult, but there is nothing wrong with a country deciding that it wants to make its own laws without reference to its neighbours and/or allies. However, there is a price to pay for that. Britain is currently learning that lesson, and will then have to decide if it is worth paying.

It will take decades to reach a new settlement on the UK’s relationship with the EU, but the UK is still a leading economic and military power in Europe and the relationship will continue.

I avoid talking about Brexit because I get exhausted by arguments which place everyone in either of 2 camps (stupid and racist v metropolitan elite). Most people cannot be categorised so easily.

ChatGPT will lead to an actual "Skynet" dystopia.

R136 I agree. I think you have to understand that change doesn't happen overnight and there needs to be time for adjustment. I imagine many of the instances that she believed to be racist were awkward attempts at understanding things that were unfamiliar. I'm not saying that her feelings aren't valid and that she NEVER experienced racism with the royal family--she certainly did with that press-- BUT I believe that it's a good idea to give people immersed in 500 years of aristocracy time to adjust. Especially, when you're marrying into a family that is guarded.

I don't know...I think she kinda jumped the gun. I also think she went into the marriage with ulterior motives.

I hate cats.

I loathe when people expect the world to cater to them so that they “feel seen” or are surrounded by people “who look like me.”. Same for “make space” and “safe space.” This is a weird issue for me since I have spent a lot of my personal and professional life trying to do this for other people.

Academia's obsession with diversity begins and ends with race. Most of the POC I know who land TT jobs had socioeconomically privileged backgrounds. Being a POC on the job market puts one at a distinct advantage, all else being equal.

The concept of "microaggressions" produces psychological harm among members of marginalized communities. If you tell a person that society is ineradicably racist, or sexist, or whatever-ist, then they will begin to view everything through that lens. It shapes their reality in unfortunate ways. Politically, it impedes steps to pragmatic change.

The left in the US has become too enmeshed in the high theory and quietism of academia.

Colleagues who consider themselves introverts but never stop talking irritate me. So many say “I’m an introvert and having to be ‘on’ for others exhausts me”. Bullshit.

Fantasy Football and e-sports are pretty boring. I do get a kick out of it when straight guys get all excited and say things like “I’ll take THAT tight end!”

I think volunteering at The Food Bank is really cool and important, but puttin* photos of yourself doing that on LinkedIn is a little grubby and self serving.

I really hate the idea of “servant leaders”. There is a creepy, smirking subtext of ego and false modesty in that phrase.

Indeed, r155.

Anonymous giving is the purest form of generosity.

R133 Some Asians have that on their profiles.

r133 = Mr Go Asian

I have three deal breakers when it comes to hooking up.

No Asians, no redheads and no uncut cock.

Obama started the decline of America and set race relations back sixty years.

Diversity and assimilation have never worked in America and nobody wants the poison that is DEI.

Biden is the worst president we've ever had. Kamala is a waste of life.

PLEASE SHIT IN MY MOUTH

[quote]I think volunteering at The Food Bank is really cool and important, but puttin* photos of yourself doing that on LinkedIn is a little grubby and self serving.

I went to a Catholic elementary school, it was a great fit for me and I enjoyed it. The one thing our principal Sister Mary Arnold (neé Anne Gavin) reiterated was the concept of "When you give, give silently", otherwise she explained, the person you're serving is yourself. Plain and simple, huh? Even as a small child this made sense to me. I've made it a point all my life to have all of my do-goodery be silent and anonymous, especially in this age of intense digital virtue signalling and puffery!

R81, what part of ‘unpopular opinions’ did you not understand?

Go back to Reddit.

I think trannies are absolutely insane. The notion that you are born in the wrong body is nothing short of body dysmorphia. And whatever you get done, cut away, and implanted — your lung capacity, the size of your hands and feet, the density of your bones, your thicker and tougher skin texture, your bigger heart, etc. won't change and will always betray you were born a man.

I think that Americans who voice great concern over immigration (as though it were the biggest issue facing them) have a lot of opinions they should keep secret.

I'm in a conversational Spanish class with a good friend who thinks he is fluent -- but is lightyears away from being so. On top of it, he makes constant errors and insists on 'taking the lead' in the class (otherwise known as monopolizing) and the teacher, who usually corrects me when I talk (I actually appreciate it), lets him go on and on. I realized I have just lost a lot of respect for my friend, even though I still like him.

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White women are the most valued and catered to species on the planet and could rule the world if they didn't hate each other, other non-white women, and cared about more than just themselves.

I hate earbuds/EarPods. They are uncomfortable and do not fit well. I much prefer walking around like a total dork with headphones.

R170 White women hate other white women more than they hate women of color.

White American women are the bitchiest women on the planet. It seems like they are taught from a young age that they have to compete with other women for everything and cut them down.

Gay American men are the bitchiest men on Earth. It seems like they are taught from a young age that they have to compete with other women for everything and cut them down.

There is no "gay community" and really never has been.

Your community is/are really those whose educational and earning level matches yours. So many young gays (queers!) rant on and on about what they feel the "gay community" has not done for them. Who gave them this idea?

I realized queer men were truly "special" when they wrote all these think pieces about how marriage for gays would do nothing for queer men. Apparently, having the right to be with your husband/wife/partner in the hospital means nothing to these people.

I don't believe in cancellation of student debt. I do beli'll be asked to pay in free public college, in which case there wouldn't be debt. (Free public or low cost public college tuition used to be practically the norm.) I do beleive in debt cancellation, I just don't think it should be student debt exclusively. Students don't have some speciual right to run up debt and be forgiven for it.

The fact is, you have people who couldn't afford college or grad school, who didn't go into debt to pay for it, and now they're being asked to pay for people who ran up massive debt, who are making more money than they are because they have higher degrees.

But I have friends whose kids have a lot of college debt, so I don't say anything.

I also don't beleive in reparations. It was okay for the families of Japanese Americans interred during WWII. US citizens who their country had no right to keep locked up. And many of them lost their businesses or the chance to make money. I'm not crazy about reparations in general but I can see it in that case.

I can't see paying the descendants of slaves reparations. Aside from the fact that it will be socially quite divisive, hundreds of years have passed since slavery. It was mostly in one part of the country. In some cases, slaves were freed because Union soldiers died to make that happen. Their descenfants aren't going to get any reparations for that.

Women make the worst bosses particularly gay women. DO NOT WORK FOR THEM.

Women have birds in their heads. It’s got something to do with being able to give birth. All political geographic borders are to divide and control the rubes. Citizenship is a farce used to divide as is the focus on sports in cultures it’s the metaphors that we adopt unconsciously of winner looser are rich and poor Mexican. Chinese of the body not of the body etc

(Correction to my post: I do believe in free public college, in which case there wouldn't be debt.)

r176 remembers reading lots of "think pieces" that didn't exist outside of some fringe loons.

Queers and gays don't need your toxic revisionist nonsense, hun.

I pretend to be pro Johnny Depp to my sister who loves him, but my level-headed judgment is that he was a worse abuser than Heard. On her end, she's zealous about loving Johnny and hating Amber. I go along because I'm disinterested and it's not worth arguing.

I would genuinely save my cat over most people in a scenario where you have to throw one off the boat. Sorry, I love him more.

People who put a higher value on their pets (and animals, in general) over human lives are weird as fuck.

Bad Bunny is ugly as fuck.

People who bitch about privacy and big brother, all while posting on social media from an electronic device are a special kind of stupid

When you're unhealthy as hell but are pushing your diet, essential oils, some random supplement on people? No one wants to look like you, feel like you, or live like you, brother. If that lemongrass oil you say cures everything hasn't cured your lupus or any of the symptoms you constantly whine about, you're just vomiting bullshit.

Dogs in restaurants is annoying and unsanitary. Eating out is a luxury; I don't give a fuck if you think your "pupper" is "friendly", keep him away from me while I dine in peace.

Local does not automatically equal good. There are many small businesses that skate by on their "local" cred that deserve to go out of business because they provide a crap product and/or service.

r187 Care to share some Pittsburgh examples, Syl?

[quote]I hate earbuds/EarPods. They are uncomfortable and do not fit well.

I can only use the connected ones that came with my original iPhone. The right one falls out of my ear constantly. I would lose the EarPod version in a day. Fortunately, I am retired, thus not forced to drown out the sounds other people make as I go about my day.

I believe that people on social media who post photos of every single bite of food they eat think my life is as boring as theirs

I’m from another planet.

[quote]I believe that people on social media who post photos of every single bite of food they eat think my life is as boring as theirs.

No one should photograph brown food except professional food photographers, working with professional food stylists.

[quote]I have three deal breakers when it comes to hooking up. No Asians, no redheads and no uncut cock.

The fascinating thing about that statement is not the very short list of deal-breakers; rather, the very long list of things that are NOT deal-breakers.

I like season 9 of XFiles. Annabeth Gish did a good job with what she was given. Early 2000s Robert Patrick could have done me anytime.

Scully and Mulder were two turds by then.

I strongly believe that there is a plot to force the human race to move to a plant-based diet and that this plot is motivated far more by profit than by health or environmental concerns. I think a handful of corporations and billionaires would love to cut farmers out of food production as far as possible, and feed us even more ultraprocessed garbage.

R188 Prantl's bakery, Oakmont bakery, Primanti Brothers, Wigle Whiskey, Turners Iced Tea, and several local breweries.

My exposure to both Prantl's and Oakmont bakeries is limited. I've liked things from Prantl's, including that almond cake. With Oakmont, however, I could taste immediately that it was no better than present-day Entenmann's or Tastykake. Yet people I know love their stuff.

I liked Dozen Cupcakes when they were around. I lived near their Squirrel Hill store and ate many more cupcakes than I should have. But they were so good.

I live in Denver but grew up in New Orleans and when I hear native Coloradans brag about how much culture Denver has I smile and nod but think "weed? Is that what you mean? Because Denver is about as culturally exciting as Akron Ohio, but with weed".

Super Femme fags are annoying. Not talking the ‘into musicals gays’, but the ones who play up their feminine side to assimilate in with the current Yassss Kween culture. Think “Werq!!!” and pear necklaces. It’s as unnatural as straight men who deepen their voice, wear camo, and say “bro” every other word. Seriously, shut up, Cunts!

R155, I work for a company that believes in servant leadership and feel the same way. It also doesn’t help that most of the leaders have serious vocal fry and I can’t tell if what they say is a declaration or question.

[quote] I pretend to be pro Johnny Depp to my sister who loves him

Oh, come on. Liking or disliking Johnny Depp is not on par with political parties and divisive issues like abortion. I'd just let my sister know I'm not a fan; tell her to go talk to someone else who is a fan.

R196 Sylvia, I am not from Pittsburgh but I understand what you mean. In my area we have some boutique local bakeries that leave pastries in their case for weeks until they sell.I once bought cupcakes to take to work that disintegrated into powder when you bit into them. Interestingly, the old school bakeries (which are all gone) would discount day-old cookies, bread, etc. That seems to be a lost concept.

I only care about gays and lesbians when it comes to lgbtq….. sort of issues.

I have sex with your husband

How is that an opinion, r204? Are you Bill Clinton?

R197 Dozen was fantastic. Oakmont not only sucks, but the owners are Trumper/anti-vaxxers. Prantl's has been bought out by a new owner and is now even worse, but people keep flocking there because it's a local institution.

This is my new favorite bakery in town. Delicious AND gay-owned.

I don't keep this a secret, but I hate the way DL threads are usually derailed by a couple posters who need to discuss something to death, i.e. Pittsburgh pastry.

Sylvia, BB&Bur looks SO good.

Lick my dick like a peppermint stick, r207.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

😂

Four posts = Discuss something to death.

This is a piece of shit anonymous website without a DM function; take it up with management, R207.

I think Beyonce is a completely uninteresting artist and a mediocre talent.

[quote] I hate the way DL threads are usually derailed by a couple posters who need to discuss something to death, i.e. Pittsburgh pastry.

Could be a lot worse.

And your i.e. should have been an e.g., dear.

[quote] I think Beyonce is a completely uninteresting artist and a mediocre talent.

You just don't like music that isn't for white ears!

Sam Smith needs to keep their clothes on. Forever.

White women age like milk, bully their men till they leave, and are the biggest self-absorbed shit disturbers that ever lived. They’re on their way out and they know it.

Women that reproduce in order to get government freebies should be sterilized.

If you drive drunk your license should be revoked for 6 months if you blow or test at double the legal limit.

Those drivers should then be monitored. If caught driving without a license they should go to prison for 6 months. The sentence should substantially increase with any new infraction.

[quote] And your i.e. should have been an e.g., dear.

I.e. just means "that is." I don't see that it should have been e.g.

"[bold]For example[/bold], Pittsburgh pastry" would have been more succinct, r218.

R168 Your instructor corrects you because he/she thinks you're teachable, unlike your friend. It's a nightmare dealing with self-perceived intellectuals and they WILL fight any ounce of criticism they get.

Your teacher could do a better job handling it, but I gaurantee they're just choosing their battles in an otherwise exhausting job.

r216 I swear men of [insert race here] just hate their female counterparts, in general. I mean, have you heard the way Black men talk about Black women?

Oh, I'm sorry, I mean..."females?"

Young adults misuse mental health awareness as an excuse to stay sheltered. Some pressure is healthy, and that discomfort you're feeling at trying something new is not "crippling anxiety."

Speaking as a teacher at the high school and college level... I want to be sensitive to their needs, but the expectation for hand-holding has gone off the charts.

No, everyone does not care about your trauma. Yes, you can keep it to yourself.

A lot of people who claim race-related work place discrimination simply weren't doing their job and are asserting a baseless discrimination claim to avoid the consequences.

Unless the spouse had significant health issues resulting from childbirth, I have a low opinion of co-workers who take paternity leave.

All in all Nixon wasn’t that bad of a president.

Imagine if he’d actually nationalized healthcare.

I don't like Cher or HIllary Clinton.

I'm not really comfortable around very effeminate guys but have faked it for years.

R228, We feel the same way about you.

Most addicts are violent, dangerous and selfish people who destroy the mental health of everyone around them and it is perfectly acceptable to completely cut off contact with them and let the chips fall where they may.

I think humility is among the highest of virtues, and yet one that's frequently overlooked or dismissed.

R230 You're absolutely right, I know from personal experience

Black people scare me.

I HONESTLY support everybody. I DO have a live-and-let-live mentality (as long as you don't fuck with MY shit). BUT the degree to which I roll my eyes when people decide to change their pronouns really bothers me. As much as I believed the idea of becoming more “conservative” as you get older would NEVER happen to me, I fear that may be the case--to SOME degree. I mean…I’m not about to support legislation OR march against somebody’s right to do anything, BUT I truly don’t have the patience to “Learn” how to address you.

If I see balls and a penis, you’re gonna be a “He” until you let me know otherwise.

If I see tits and a vadge, you’re gonna be “Ma’am” until you let me know otherwise.

I'd like to add that this ONLY applies to people changing their pronouns--not genders (e.g. Sam Smith, that douchey actor from that one season Walking Dead spin-off).

I find it utterly absurd when grown adults, well over the age of consent, complain about being manipulated or gaslit into having sex with some celeb or billionaire.

Honestly, is it news to anyone that people want sex? And that they may use whatever assets (possessions, wealth, fame, sex appeal, etc.) they have in order to get it?

I love my sister but she has become an antivaxxer and conspiracy theory laden frau :(

R181 I'm glad you're triggered enough to reply.

R234, where do you live that you see all these strangers’ genitalia?

Testosterone is the root of all evil.

Sadly, I don't keep this opinion to myself as often as I should...

I agree with you R240.

The idea that world would be a much better place without religion is so shallow. If religion wasn't there, something else would surely fill its place. I think we've attempted to replace religion with money the past 60 or so years in America and we see the results now. Now, I love money as much as anyone. And I know the pitfalls of organized religion. But money cannot fill the place the organized religion and local/community groups played in America in the early post WW2 era. It's no coincidence that we've seen a massive epidemic of loneliness and decline in social capital after the 60s.

R242 Religion would be replaced with celebrity worship. It already has for some people.

I ain’t taking whore pills.

Trumpism/MAGA and conspiracy theories are the replacement for religion in America, R244.

It's easier and more fun for it's adherents because they get to openly hate others instead of keeping the hate secret, in their coalblack hearts.

I resent universally celebrities like Keanu, Paul Rudd, Tom Hanks, etc. because people blow smoke up their ass just for having common decency. I assure you the "sweetest most awesome guy ever" is somewhere treating patients in a developing country, not buying iced coffee for the cast of John Wick.

I keep it to myself because why pick a fight over milktoast celebrities. My dislike is more fame worship than them as people.

R246 I agree with your comment but it’s “milquetoast” dear.

[quote] Gay American men are the bitchiest men on Earth. It seems like they are taught from a young age that they have to compete with OTHER women for everything and cut them down.

Gay men are not women, cunt.

The opinion I keep secret is that deep, deep inside, I'm a black gay male, so at the end of the day my tweet was correct.

R348, point proven. Asshole.

I'm an Anti-Natalist.

I think us humans are total fuck-ups.

We wage war with each other and on other animals and the planet. We're in denial of our bigotries and racisms. We think the gap between the haves and have-nots is OK. We're ignorant, lazy, fear knowledge and, our lack of knowledge.

We value physical beauty above everything and use others lack of it to dehumanize and devalue others.

We devalue or aging population.

We invented weapons to cause mass death. Except for other animals, fauna and vegetation, I truly don't care if one of us starts a nuclear war that wipes all of us out.

Thread monitor here. Please remember that we're posting opinions we keep SECRET. Posting opposing opinions or criticizing someone for their post is not the point.

When it comes to mass shootings in America, guns are not the problem. The real issue is progressive district attorneys treating criminals with kid gloves and politicians' disregard for law and order.

The world functions better with straight white men in charge.

There is an afterlife.

R243, but celebrity worship has always been there. I think, if anything, it's better now than it was in the 80s and 80s. That was the time where media was much less fragmented and the only things you really knew about celebs were the things the media wanted you to know. I don't think we will ever see anyone get the same amount of worship as Madonna or (especially) Michael Jackson did at their peaks. And to be honest, I think Indians are probably way worse than Americans as far as celeb worship goes.

R245, you raise a good point. The decline of organized religion and the fragmenting of the media has led to people on both sides of the political spectrum seeking out things to make them warm, fuzzy and inspired. On the far right, it/s MAGA. On the far left, it's the Bernie Bros types. But the former is 10000000x worse than the latter.

After having gone through "therapy" when I was clinically depressed, I really am unsure how effective or necessary it was, at all. I was on SSRIs for about 9 months, then my MD (psychiatrist) tapered me off them. But he insisted on the counseling which just seemed like I was talking talking talking. It didn't change anything. I was depressed for a good reason- I was overwhelmed at work, the position was too much for one person, and had to leave. My entire department's managers ended up quitting or getting fired, so I know I wasn't the only one who felt this way. I took a leave of absence and don't regret it. I am not really sure I believe in "therapy."

I believe in therapy, less in SSRIs, r258. I had the luck of finding a very good clinical psychologist who was trained in Rogerian psychotherapy. He changed my life.

With that said, most of the therapists I've seen were varying degrees of incompetent, in one way or another.

Non-binary is a mental illness and pronouns are utterly ridiculous.

Fuck the homeless and their encampments. I wish they would all die.

Jordan Peele is completely overrated and a hack.

Timothee Chalamet is a pretentious douchebag and he, his team, and Hollywood studios need to just accept that he is NOT a leading action star.

R261 they’re UnHoUsEd. It’s their right to cause the next iteration of urban flight. They’re entitled to it.

Some of my colleagues in academia are pretentious douchebags who jump on topics or fads like "preferred pronouns" or "sex as a spectrum" with little serious thought.

College students today are mollycoddled, The pandemic and lockdown were tough on all of us, but missing your graduation or Senior Week are not the same as military tours of Vietnam or the Great Depression.

Trigger Warnings are bullshit.

Diversity statements are Stalinist.

Are you a professor or an administrator, r265? Just curious.

I agree with everything you posted (I am r152). I think a lot of people in academia recognize the bullshit, but few are brave enough to speak out.

People who live in America who have been there many years and dont speak english is so annoying. Visiting Miami is the worst. . And it's obvious that that's what's keeping them in poverty...it's just something that bugs me.

I think that COVID forced a lot of parents (mostly, but not all, of them the mothers) into having to deal with their kids every day and it drove them nuts. They had to stop their coffee dates with other women who -- God help us! -- identify almost exclusively as moms or mommies. This also cut into their hours of wandering around malls, Walmart, and Target shopping for junk and satisfying the American need for endless amounts of stuff. I think this is the basis for the rise in Karens (and some Kens) and the fury with which they react to the slightest inconvenience.

Conversely, I also believe that teachers somewhat took advantage of COVID and stayed out way longer than was really necessary. I run a nonprofit and we were back serving the public (safely) by June 2020. Schools could have done a better job of getting the kids back to the books sooner. The backlash against teachers and school librarians gave rise to this whole "We the Parents" and "Moms for Liberty" bullshit.

I think Drag Queen Story Time is virtue signalling and the "teach kids to respect everyone" cover story wears a little thin. If conservatives hate it then progressives think (rather reflexively and without much thought) that it has its own value by virtue of conservatives hating it. A friend told me that her staff would be terrified two years ago if someone came in without a mask and yet they are willing to bring in drag queens even when it means having a plan in place to deal with bomb threats, protests, nuisance calls, and vehement opposition. And for a what? A drag show???

I'm a professor, R266. And I agree with everything you wrote at R152.

The chair of my department told me that he is under pressure to make sure the next tenure-track or full-time lectureship is a "person of color." That is not creating an even playing field.

Medicalization has replaced religion or philosophy to answer dealing with life situations

R262 yes. Us was the most overrated film of the past 5 years or so. A completely half-baked piece of shit. He doesn't even understand how suspense works.

Men are hot but I do think the media is way too oversaturated with sexual images. And when you focus on "music" stars, it's even worse. Do we really need to watch Sam Smith or Lizzo attain "liberation" or whatever by getting naked?

At this point, considering the state of the world now, I believe anyone who "tries" to have a baby is selfish, as hell.

Trans women participating in women's sports is pure misogyny.

Buttigieg has been a failure in everything he's done and a total phony.

Morbid obesity is not attractive, and fat acceptance is a lie.

I am extremely fat. It’s painful and embarrassing. No-one wants to be this way, and no-one wants to see it on a billboard.

My friends who've spent their careers in academia are insulated jabberwockies, they make little sense as they've never operated in the real "for profit" world.

They've taken all their notions from the nutty, demanding, idiotic students! On top of that, they often adopt a more "real", or "common man" patois just to show they know it exists which is entirely patronizing. Naturally, all are enthusiastic fans of the Gender Identity Movement. Frankly, I think at their cores, they're timid anarchists...with a pension.

Billionaires shouldn't exist.

Storytelling to children in libraries should be an intimate lo-fi experience conducted by children’s librarians, not “entertainers” (of any stripe).

The story times at my local library are lo-fi and conducted by librarians or parents. I've never heard of entertainers or celebrities taking over story times at libraries.

-- You didn't "rescue" your dog. You obtained a dog from some facility because you wanted to have a pet. That doesn't make you a hero or a martyr. So stop calling it a rescue dog.

-- The white women who fawn over pitbulls at best have a massive sense of entitlement. At worst they narcissistic sociopaths.

That the newfound reverence for veterans in the USA has a weird inauthentic feel to it.

It's a blessing there is one fewer violent disturbed homeless person on the streets.

I have no doubt the overwhelming majority of New Yorkers feel the same.

That the Venezuelan migrants who are trashing the (free) hotels they were housed in in New York--and also making various demands of the city--don't belong in this country. They will be nothing but a drain on society if allowed to stay.

While there are some exceptions, most Jewish and Asian women are ugly.

I find the amount of racism and hatred of others on DL is both disgusting and troubling. It's gone beyond pointless bitchery, snark and witty repartee and turned into an agenda. Given the low price of membership on this site and the amount of posts of that kind, there's no doubt in my mind that there are troll farms targeting DL in the hopes desensitizing people and spreading hate.

There was a single troll on the Jordan Neely thread who was responsible for most of the racist posts r285

I really have to read the entire post before I give it a WW. I was so with you, r285, in your first two sentences. But the rest of your screed is just that. Troll farms my ass. That's one of the stupidest examples of trollery that exist here.

The people here that think DL is important enough to warrant “Russian Trolls” are, well, special.

Best friend's daughter, now 40, extremely wealthy due to marriage, inheritance from friend's ex, career success. My friend was a public school teacher, very progressive, humanitarian. Her daughter is in rich white people's heaven in Massachusetts, her children never come in contact with anyone not like their parents, private everything, nannies, etc. Her whole life is structured for privilege, privilege, privilege. My friend justifies her daughter's politics to herself by saying she is socially liberal but financially conservative. I keep my mouth shut about that.

When kids leave high school they know nothing. In college, where 90% of professors are Liberal, a kid has no exposure to any other views. They're fed Left Wing pablum and can't recover.

I agree with Richard Dreyfuss. Seeing black women on PBS's "Tom Jones:" for the sake of :diversity" is bull shit!

The entire debate over "fetishization" of other ethnicities/races is way too extreme. One of my friends (we are both South Asian) got so offended when a white guy told him how nice his skin was on a dating/hookup app. He then attempted to lecture this person onilne about how that's fetishization and how it made him feel uncomfortable. I don't understand what's wrong with what the white guy did. Isn't telling someone they have nice skin a good thing? I also had an ex (he was black) that got really offended when I said that I found black guys hot.

Yassss Kweens who prioritize all the other letters in LGBTQ ahead of the G are doing so as a coping mechanism for not being one of the popular "A-Gays".

75% of "straight" men will in fact have sex with other men if they think no one will know. I used to joke all it took was a six pack and a joint. Ive sucked more dicks than I can even remember,and a damn good percentage of them were straight or married. In my youth I attracted my share of admiration,and I acted as gay as Liberace. It helped I was pretty good looking though,and was very femme. If I had a nickle for every guy I slept with that told me I was their first gay man Id be as rich as Bezos.

My friends who say they're fiscally conservative and socially liberal. I just want to scream at the utter hypocrisy. They faithfully vote GOP and refuse to acknowledge that the GOP is neither.

"Trans" isn't real. People that claim to be the opposite gender are either mentally ill or fetishists.

The problem with education today is summers off. 3 months off is too much, too much learning is lost and those are wasted months. The US is falling behind in math and science and this is why, because kids take off 1/4 of the year on top of and extra month and a half of other breaks. If time off is so important that the school week should be 4 days a week or 3 weeks a month. (but I teach and I am not giving up my summers)

I often consider poisoning dogs who are left to roam off leash. I never actually would, but my mind goes to rat poison in a big glob of ground beef.

Most of the gays that post on datalounge are authentically damaged individuals, as is evidenced by their comments.

Oh do piss off R299. Everyone is damaged in one way or the other,we just admit it.

I don't know how R285 thinks he is keeping that opinion secret. He just told everyone here and his opinion is about this place. Or is he hiding his opinion from people who have never heard of Datalounge?

My friend's new fade haircut doesn't suit him, but since he was excited for it I pretended to love it too.

His boyfriend recently asked me to back him up in saying it looks bad and I told him it looked better. That boyfriend puts him down too much anyway.

R302 Please tell your friend it looks bad regardless of your opinion of his boyfriend. You'd be doing your friend a favor; you don't want him to look bad. Leave his douche friend's opinion out of it.

I agree with a lot of these! Some to add:

-I have heard several people say that grammar is a racist construct. I think this is absolute bullshit, since grammar is supposed to be taught to all students in all schools in the US regardless of race etc. If English is your native language and you don’t know basic concepts like their/there/they’re by the time you finish school, you’re just ignorant.

-I also don’t think it’s racist/fatphobic/etc to generally not be sexually attracted to people of a certain race or body type. In my entire life, I have only been sexually attracted to maybe three black men and no obese men. This does not make me a racist or fatphobic any more than being gay makes me a misogynist. And whenever I have hooked up or dated outside of my preferences, I have regretted it afterwards.

-I think the whole ritual of graduation is stupid. People travel sometimes huge distances to watch their loved ones walk across a stage as a result of doing the bare minimum it took to pass their classes. I also think that weddings can fall into a similar category of being stupid and self-centered (especially when held in locations that are inconvenient for their attendees), though I do more understand their purpose.

-I agreed with those above who are saying that all wine tastes basically the same until I tried Dom Perignon. When I drank that, something clicked and I understood that it genuinely was better than any champagne or sparkling wine I had ever had. That said, I usually can’t tell the difference between a $10 bottle and a $100 bottle.

-I don’t see the point of veganism. These animals are being raised specifically for the purpose of producing eggs, milk, and meat. If you take away consumers, the animals just wouldn’t be born in the first place.

-I acknowledge that white privilege exists and that I benefit from it, but there are other kinds of privilege that outweigh it. For example, I think a non-white person who is straight and rich is better off than a white person who is queer and poor.

-It is not my job as a cis person to understand the plight of trans and non-binary people. While I will always respect their rights, pronouns, and existence, there is an innate difference between *identifying* and *being*, and I simply can’t imagine what it must feel like to be born in the wrong body.

-If you were anti-mask and/or anti-vax at the time when the pandemic was at its worst, you are a bad person. I don’t care about your political affiliation or exposure to misinformation/rhetoric; this was basic logic and elementary level science.

I'm sick and tired of the left saying anti-white racism doesn't exist. It's real.

We need to reopen mental institutions.

Dubya wasn't that bad of a president.

I wish my partner’s friends and family who are always asking him for handouts would drop dead.

R304 I hate graduations too. I hold multiple advanced degrees but haven't gone to any of mine since I finished high school.

[quote] Dubya wasn't that bad of a president.

Except for starting an expensive, protracted war with the wrong country.

Dubya was a worse president than Trump.

I don’t care for Gob.

Teachers who complain about their jobs and how glad they are that the year is over. ALL jobs suck right now, you’re not special.

The way we look back with real horror on the festive atmosphere at public executions is the same way future people will look back on our treatment of animals.

People who bring their dogs to restaurants or grocery stores, who think kids are terrible but dogs are angels, treat them like they are as important as humans are mentally deficient. They are bad at human interactions and like dogs because they don’t judge them. I love dogs and like normal responsible dog owners, but there is a weird subset of anti social people who post on social media about their dogs to soothe the fact that no one loved them enough to make a family with them.

Sexual attraction to teenagers who have visibly completed puberty is not deviant and is much, much more common than anyone wants to admit these days. There's a reason so many men with any measure of power or status get caught fucking the barely legal.

Part II of this secret opinion is that this attraction does not make it OK to fuck them.

I am a middle aged straight woman who has never been attracted to people under 25 or so (except when I myself was under 25) so this isn't me trying to explain away my own attractions.

I have an odd mix of both left wing and right wing views about which I am equally passionate. I'm pretty careful about what I say.

R317 me too. People make a lot of assumptions about my beliefs that are wrong. My stance depends on the issue.

I don't understand why university professors make a big deal about being "tenured" when any of the rest of us could lose our jobs at any time for practically any reason. Why are they so special?

I think you answered your own question, R319.

[quote]I am a middle aged straight woman

Jesus Fucking Christ...

I have STANDARDS and PREFERENCES that others may consider discriminatory - racist, fat-phobic, ageist, ableist, trans-phobic and more.

Your dog is not a "fur baby", anymore than than your human baby is a Skin Dog. And you are not a Dog Mom. Stop saying it.

r319 = Ron Desantis

People are inherently selfish and many friends will only be your friend if it suits them and they see some advantage in it for them. The number of people you can truly trust who will never turn against you and will always be there for you is invariably…extremely small. It’s kind of sad. But all you can do is accept it.

I avoid 12-steppers and people who make an addiction of the Process of Recovery. Removing addictions that impair one's life - I'm all for it, and if that means a period of time in AA or a similar group, fine. But many years or decades of 12-stepping (or similar programs) and a stance of lifelong powerlessness over an addiction...I'd rather not spend a lot of time with people with those central priorities which leave too little space for other priorities.

I am overwhelmingly disappointed (but say nothing and soldier on) when I find out a guy is cut. It's not a deal-breaker, by any means, but I find it upsetting to think that someone took a knife to his junk.

R326 is correct: I dated a 12-stepper who relapsed and then died (of an unrelated but probably contributed to the death). If you aren't a drunk or a serious druggie, DODGE THEM. Someone with TWO DUI's (as my ex did, found out posthumously) is not worth the headache. He was a liar and a scoundrel. But I still love that scoundrel, even after all that. I guess I have bad taste. By the way, I hate men. Not you fine DLers, of course.

I personally think America should put birth control in drinks. Make it like Mio or some kind of instant beverage. My mother likes to say "Put it in tap water," and to be honest, I think it's a far more effective solution to get rid of the annoying Karens multiplying.

All expectant parents should be required to have a detailed psychiatric evaluation before having a child. If they are deemed insane or incapable of safely raising a child, adoption or abortion should be given as options. So many American adults have NO place being parents, including my very own. Who gives a fuck to straight people that you want a baby? Get a damn Betsy Wetsy and save the environment.

I’m transphobic.

PS: I think dating apps should allow you to look up for free the public criminal records of the very people you are looking at. Local Clerk of Courts could save innumerable lives by people finding out they're talking to a bad person. I could've dodged a whole lot of pain and grief if I would've known what my ex was like according to the law. Make it mandatory that every app, including Grindr, has this feature!

Personality disorders cannot be cured and rarely improve in meaningful ways.

We [bold]KNOW[/bold] R329. And you don't keep that opinion secret either you grossly obese syphilis ridden cunt.

R326 is correct. Long term 12 steppers are nutbags.

People rarely lack a good reason for suicide.

Cultural progressivism has hardened into a fervent new religion, with all the usual suspects present – shibboleths, intolerance for any questioning of the tenets of the faith, saints against whom no irreverence is allowed, lack of a sense of proportion, zealous enforcement of the belief system, ostracism for non-believers, scrutinizing of minutiae for offenses against the faith, and beliefs that are rooted more in emotion than in logical reality.

Corporations and rich individuals have enthusiastically but superficially joined this new religion because it distracts the left from the pressing economic issues that affect millions more people than the cultural issues but that would cost them money, while DEI costs them nothing..

Expressed beautifully, r335

Grief that extends for years and years just pisses me right off.

My mother still regularly talks about my father who died 30 years ago. I work with a woman who also regularly talks about her husband that has been dead for 15 years. What these people fail to see is that by constantly mentioning some who is long gone is that they are not keeping the memory of that person alive, they're just making people wish they'd just shut the fuck up and move on. It actually destroys fond memories of the person who died.

R42 Sounds like your cousin is a stupid cunt who shouldn’t be a teacher.

If I never hear the word "diversity" again, it will still be too soon.

Black people need to get over slavery but won't, because it is in their interest not to.

Transgendered people are either autogynephiles or bored attention seekers, and usually neither handsome (if male) or beautiful (if female).

Sex is immutable.

A new, non-religious, Jewish and Arab state should replace Israel. Everybody can stay, and shut up.

R335 is right. Progressivism = cult.

What is R339's point exactly?

R316=frau CUNT. Nobody cares what you think.

Stop and frisk was effective in reducing crime and should be brought back.

I think he's saying that those are commonly seen opinions amongst posters on DL R339.

Black people succeed less not because of racism but because they have lower IQs.

Marijuana should not be legalized.

I don't have a problem with marijuana being legalized, but I don't buy that it is as innocent and carefree as its proponents suggest. Pot can fuck you up badly, as much as if not more so than liquor.

Some people want black people to get over slavery, but conveniently forget about the 100 or so years post slavery when black people were still treated like shit - worse than shit.

I look down on potheads. At least drunks aren't evangelical and don't try to tell you that Jim Beam cures cancer, arthritis, cataracts, PTSD, and of course, fibro.

Also, weed smells like someone set fire to a pile of month-old dirty socks.

[quote] Dubya was a worse president than Trump.

NO. Dubya didn't try to start a coup against he government itself.

[quote] Some people want black people to get over slavery, but conveniently forget about the 100 or so years post slavery when black people were still treated like shit - worse than shit.

This is why I have a problem with people constantly referring to "a legacy of slavery". I think most of the issues that plague black people can be tied to the period AFTER the Civil War when Jim Crow was instated. If activists used the phrase "legacy of Jim Crow", I think that would get way more sympathy. You'd definitely be hearing less of the "oh, that was so long ago" excuses. But then again, people who are fervent racists will be racist no matter what.

I think 'morning after' pills should be dispensed on request at all pharmacies to anyone who asks, and without question to anyone who looks to be above the age of about 12.

I think community health centers and clinics and other sites where abortions are offered free and without question, and readily available with ample choices of location (say roughly should on a ratio of about 1 abortion center for every 3 fast-food restaurants in a community.)

Iheart Radio is Clear Channel 😈

Dubya was installed by a Supreme Court decision so corrupt that it was, in function, a coup.

^ in DEEP disguise

When you have time and disposable income, it should be less of an excuse for you to be fat.

"Trigger Warnings are bullshit.

Diversity statements are Stalinist."

I'll add, land acknowledgements are bullshit.

The Bible is bullshit.

I think politics and religion are the same thing. Patriotism is a ridiculous concept. We have no choice about where we are born.

My secret got me banned here.

R350, But W did send our troops to die needlessly in Iraq just to appease a slight to his Daddy by Hussein.

Black-ink tats in moderation are fine. Colored tats are trashy no matter what size.

R360 It’s no secret, Cheryl.

R347 I agree with you that pot is not harmless but alcohol can fuck your life far more than pot. There isn't even any comparison.

Straight women who mistreat their in-laws should be called out more in society.

When I hear someone is in ‘no contact’ with family members, it’s usually a red flag to me about them more than their family. This seems so common now that’s it’s just abbreviated as NC on Reddit and elsewhere. Everyone else seems to be ‘toxic’ now or has been labelled with an armchair psychiatric diagnosis. It always makes me wonder what the other side has to say. Battling toxicities.

r366 you just described my hairdresser.

Gay men who actually worship female artists are on a different level of stupid. There is a difference between enjoying an artist and worshipping them.

r368 best not be referring to my Vivian Vance duvet cover.

R369, like I said, worshipping is different than appreciating and liking. I'm referring to the whole "yassss queen" gays. These are the type of people who spend their time on music forums going on the attack against anyone who says anything negative--regardless if true or false--against their idol. Exhibit A: The Beyhive.

The references to Vivian Vance are so stupid and unfunny and dated.

I have sufficient of r371

R371 I didn’t even know who Vivian Vance was until I arrived at DL (ducks and hides)

I love seeing women in music succeed, but I think it's a genuine problem how much of their pop/rap is fixated is on tits, ass, and looking good. I don't think it's empowering for young women in the way people argue it is.

I don't say it because I don't want to be misconstrued for slut shaming-- I AM a slut lol. But your self-worth should be more than skin deep.

I am baffled at why Eldergays want to be thought of as "cunts"

Who would want to be a mean nasty person no one likes?

Though I suspect most are milquetoasts IRL and only "cunts" on DL. (Which would explain why they want to be "cunts."

I’m baffled why gay men use “c-nts” so much but are offended by “f-ggot”.

R374, it was cool when Madonna and Janet were doing it but now we've seen it all. It's not shocking, it's actually more numbing than anything else. What's worse is that they aren't even being appreciated for normal bodies, they are appreciated more if they are plastic (Nicki Minaj).

R376 They really are awful words. I hate to sound pearl clutching by saying crass, but they just are. I associate people who use those words with people who drink michelob light (or miller light or whatever the trashy beer is) and smoke cigarettes, have lots of tatoos and post about their new grill and smoker on facebook. And have a confederate flag somewhere.

R376 That c-mp-r-s-n is b-fffl-ng

I don’t use slurs^.

"Gay community" is an oxymoron. Gays don't seem to like each other all that much - look around here for more than ten minutes, FFS.

They used to^.

well at least we don’t start wars

Only with weak little old Christian bakers and women. Never Muslims, though.

R370 Its like religion to them. I actually don't care if they worship pop divas. I find it pathetic and sad but its their choice.

What crosses the line is when they expect EVERYONE else to worship and obsess over their favorite popstar as well. That's when you get the threats, attacks etc against those who do not "submit". It is very cult-like.

I have little respect for so-called 'feminists' who march against Trump for being a bro-dude asshole, wearing pink pussycat hats, but have nothing to say in support of their sistahs in the Muslim world who suffer oppression worse than these soi-disant feminists can even imagine.

R385, yes, that's true. The Beyhiva is exactly that. If you deny that Beyonce is on the level of Michael Jackson, you must be attacked. Even though she hasn't done anything on Michael Jackson's level.

[QUOTE] Beyhiva

Dear,,,

I think conservatives are the greatest danger to society and should be killed.

More gays need to man up and get a gun.

Gabourey Sidibe deserved the oscar.

[quote] When I hear someone is in ‘no contact’ with family members, it’s usually a red flag to me about them more than their family. This seems so common now that’s it’s just abbreviated as NC on Reddit and elsewhere. Everyone else seems to be ‘toxic’ now or has been labelled with an armchair psychiatric diagnosis. It always makes me wonder what the other side has to say. Battling toxicities.

There's two sides of every story and there are times I suspect a good amount of people on reddit who post on AITA, JustNoMIL, and other subreddits about supposed""toxic" family members or in-laws are either full of shit or have exaggerated their situations with their family members or in-laws. Another site/forum that I suspect is mostly filled with bullshit stories is the DWIL group on Babycenter.

All non-binary people are fugly.

If you are a man who wants to wear a dress and makeup - just do it.

If you are a woman who wants to wear suits and ties - just do it.

You are simply men and women who like to play against gender role types, and this is a wonderful thing.

You are NOT the opposite sex trapped inside your body. To think that you are means you are pretty dim-witted and narcissistic, and buying into gender stereotypes without realizing it.

Maybe I am just getting old (mid-forties but look early-twenties), but I think the world is going to shit, mainly due to social media and a society which has given up on any idea of acceptable and unacceptable behaviour. So many young people regard any assertion that they are being unreasonable (or that they should conform to basic standards of respectful behaviour) as being a personal attack on them.

Soon, this generation will be in the majority, a world full of people who have rarely heard the word “No” or been held accountable for their reactions. I genuinely wonder what that world will be like.

R393, I am right there with you.

I'm also noticing a tendency for people to start behaving like robots, due to having many years of devices being their main integration into reality. They aren't thinking outside the box. They aren't showing curiosity for the world or its people. They are just following the desired ones and zeros already prescribed to them by corporate sponsorship. It's fucking sad and infuriating.

I’m with you too, R393.

R387 some related opinions:

Beyoncé is very talented but not much better than your typical professional singer.

Michael Jackson is possibly the most overrated artist of any genre.

R396, I do think Michael Jackson is massively overrated by his fans. I've read many Michael Jackson fans on sites like lipstick alley claim that The Beatles had no talent and Michael is way more talented.

I can't stand the way Indian and Pakistani food smells. I can't stand the way it makes people who eat it smell. It comes out of their pores.

In the morning when I'm particularly sensitive to smells for some reason (i.e. still half asleep) and someone gets in an elevator with me, reaking of strong spices, it makes me want to wretch. The smell entrenches itself in clothing, too.

Reeking *

Whenever some young-ish, single woman at work starts banging on about having a successful career, traveling and how men are crap, I want to tell them to focus on finding a nice, normal guy, getting married and having a family. The happiest, most contented women I know did just that.

It makes you want to retch.

I also agree with you, r393.

I love Vietnamese food and the country fascinates me but dear god, the language is the nastiest sounding language I have ever heard in my life. If you want the equivalent of a police siren in your ears, just ask someone to yell while speaking Vietnamese.

Oh, come on, R332. I don’t keep my opinions secret HERE. I keep any of my opinions that might cause needless discomfort to my friends a secret from them. I don’t give a rat’s ass what YOU, of all people, think, so I speak as I please here.

Most people don’t have an issue with gays, blacks, and other minorities. They just don’t want all things woke shoved in their face 24/7.

[quote]The number of people you can truly trust who will never turn against you and will always be there for you is invariably…extremely small. It’s kind of sad. But all you can do is accept it.

R325 And it shrinks the older we get. Yes, it is very sad.

Don't let your guard down with retired/elderly people. Old does not guarantee nice or honest.

Most military veterans are arrogant assholes who think they are above everyone else.

R394 those people are going to be totally bowled over and essentially enslaved by the smart, UMC and Rick kids whose parents paid attention to them and limited social media. That type of kid is going to be smarter than all of us, but the vast majority are going to end up as robots.

[quote]Grief that extends for years and years just pisses me right off.

R337 I partially agree with you. There is a difference between that bottomless grief that people like to display and sharing memories to keep a loved one alive for a new generation. My brother played the grief of his wife's death to the point we started avoiding him. It was just a play for sympathy -- "Oh poor me. My wife died."

Married women with kids are the reason so many young women today are shunning marriage and kids.

They are the most unhappy, unfulfilled women around and they make sure every one else is too.

[quote]More of the "I forgot the baby in the hot car and it died" cases should be investigated as homicides.

It's better for the planet if we have leas children around. The world is overpopulated.

Yeah, I'm going to have to agree with the above opinion of the spoken Vietnamese language. It's no Italian.

I'm going to apologize in advance for my horrible opinion.

I think another name for tattoos is 'socially-acceptable cutting.' For reasons well known to the tattooed someone.

(I'm sorry Lyle, you were a mensch and I'm not talking about you, you were an angel.)

“Vertigo” is a shitty shitty movie.

Oscar winners “Titanic” and “Forrest Gump” are also shitty, shitty movies.

None whatsoever.

I believe J6 was an audio tour gone awry.

Akin to R414, I find tattoos disgusting and a true sign of poor mental health and social status. I have no clue what makes it so bougie to both the elite and the dirt fuckin' poor.

Anyone could write rap.

Pierced nipples are gross and a boner-killer, especially nipple rings. Every time I see some guy with a curtain ring dangling from his nipple, I just want to rip it off.

r420 Write a rap straight from the dome that perfectly flows to this beat now.

First 32 bars. Go...

Hard disagree with r420

--"White guilt" is bullshit and a lot of virtue signaling. It is also very patronizing to the person/group etc. that is being showered upon.

--Holding to "but, 400 years of slavery" is completely detrimental to any hope of moving on/up with ones life (see White guilt).

--Way too many gay men like, do, consume things just because they are "gay" and feel they need to LOVE all these things to fit in. Think for yourself! There is nothing more off-putting than a cliché or stereotype.

--I actually think MANY DLers are smart, funny and intelligent.

--I also think that just as many DLers are feeble-minded, ignorant twats.

--I think addiction is a temporary affliction not a lifelong disease, and anyone who justifies it because of "the science" can blow me (seriously, I could use a nice blowie).

--Medicine, that was once thought of as a noble profession is nothing more than assembly line diagnoses and drug pushing.

Equity is just a fancy term for modern day segregation. Also, diversity is our strength is an empty slogan and historically inaccurate.

Michelle Obama is incredibly overrated. She practiced law for like five minutes and has never had a real job. Her only real accomplishment as First Lady was ruining school lunch.

R426: And we all know she got into Princeton on affirmative action and legacy (her brother being an alumnus).

I always tell one of my best friends that she looks great, even if her faux pin-up style is terrible and makes her appear much older than she actually is. She really needs to be told that she looks fine so I indulge her with fake compliments, unintentionally encouraging her to dress even worse.

What is "equity" anyway? Is that another word for reparations?

[quote] Pierced nipples are gross and a boner-killer, especially nipple rings.

Who wants metal in their mouth?

The vast majority of gay men are not racist. But, to the ones who are, do you really think the racists you side with support you in any way? In fact, if it came to you and a straight minority, they would more than likely choose the straight minority - unless you're in the closet, which you probably are. Which brings me to my next thing.

There is nothing sadder than a grown adult, paying his own bills, gay man who is still in the closet. 1) You are sad and pathetic and 2) everyone already knows.

1. Most hard-core progressives are privileged enough that they will not feel the effects of whatever "social justice" programs they are pushing.

2. The Cultural Revolution Era Mao-ist nature of progressives especially around trans issues and racial justice turn people off and help get Republicans elected.

3. For younger Millennials, Zoomers and Alphas, the class gap--the life experiences of those from the top 15% and those from the lower 85% will be largely insurmountable and it will feel as if they come from two different countries. Think gentry vs common folk in Austen, Dickens, Thackeray et al

4. Many gay men never really do grow up as evidenced by the middle school level of much of the posting on here ("did he present hole?") It's particularly egregious given how erudite and witty many other posters are.

5. Straight people are far more comfortable with lesbians than they are with gay men, with the possible exception of really hard core diesel dykes

6. Eldergays got handed a really shitty hand-- AIDS, homophobia--and it's interesting how some have transcended that and others have let it eat at them for the last 40+ years.

Exactly, r430. You could lose a filling on one of those!

There are many truly nice and lovely people in the Deep South. Not most, but many.

Married straight couples who do all their hobbies together are annoying and co-dependent.

The Red states are paying and going to pay more for the way they voted. Their educational programs suck, their healthcare sucks, and global warming is kicking their asses. And I don't feel bad for them.

R436 add to that the power grids failing and their water all being contaminated and shutting down- wtf do you think happens if you refuse to pay for any of that stuff?

There will be a huge uptick in gun violence and mass shootings when the power grid in Texas fails this summer.

Pussy is disgusting

Doing fuck all every day except a ritualized salmon and egg bowl from the Pret discounted shelf and umpteen FB posts, going to no exhibits, no arts events, reading no books, making no excursions beyond Malin+Goetz and Dior (which must have horrible security to let this troll squat there), no hint of any curiosity beyond there tickets and The Dance...the nothingness of it could be a good cover for taking back his old shameful ways.

Did the Paul Mezcal troll get blocked or die or something? He's been silent.

"Ted Lasso" is not just bad, but — is there such a thing as "heterosexual male twee"?

R432, beautifully put. I could not agree more on every point.

[quote] do you really think the racists you side with support you in any way?

R431, you don’t define “racists”, so I have no idea which people you mean. But, that said, do you really think being “supported” – which I guess means the person being super-accepting and “gay friendly” – matters more than other, non-gay issues to every gay man or lesbian, or even every DLer?

[quote] There is nothing sadder than a grown adult, paying his own bills, gay man who is still in the closet. 1) You are sad and pathetic and 2) everyone already knows.

Since you don’t know individual circumstances, your judgment of other people’s degree of openness is meaningless.

^^^Tell us your racist and in the closet without telling us you're racist and in the closet.

Straight people are more comfortable with lesbians because straight people know how perverted men, regardless of orientation, can be. Straight men don't want to be subjected to the same behaviors from a group of people they aren't sexually attracted to, hence the OTT prejudice against gay men.

I detest and abhor gay men who marry women. Come out or stay in the closet your entire lives: that’s your own business, but don’t hoodwink some poor frau into thinking you want her.

Many of these are not secrets.

Most of these are opinions we would only express anonymously on the internet. ^^

But many are expressed daily already^. I need darker.

R447: You don’t say?

English should be the official language of the United States.

I hate people who sing and yell really loud at concerts. I don't consider myself uptight and I don't want to kill the vibe. But also, I didn't buy tickets for a bunch of college kids drunk off vodka redbull.

There is no such thing as "people of color". Many minority groups have disdain for each other and are made up of people with vastly different cultures, agendas, goals etc. People who pretend like it's all minorities vs. big bad whitey are delusional.

In the same vein R456:

In 100 years people will laugh at how in the US in the 2020s, saying "people of color" was okay but saying "colored people" was not.

Thank you R443

[quote]I didn't buy tickets for a bunch of college kids drunk off vodka redbull.

I realized twenty years ago at a Wilco concert that that's [italic]exactly[/italic] what I was paying for when buying most concert tickets. It was the bouncing beach ball and these three bitches on their cellphones that really annoyed the fuck out of me. The drunk college kids actually scared the three bitches off.

I think that's a minor factor R446

The acceptance thing starts in childhood.

Tomboys are cool, parents, dads especially, will brag about their tomboy daughter.

But no one ever says "My Hisstopher is such a little nellie queen. He insists on using linen napkins for dinner and he's always critiquing my outfits like a regular little Mr. Blackwell!"

Trump was necessary to challenge neoliberalism and neoconservatives but at a great and dangerous cost. Now he needs to just somehow go away. (A little heart attack maybe.)]

[quote]When I hear someone is in ‘no contact’ with family members, it’s usually a red flag to me about them more than their family.

That's more nuanced for me. If someone announces to all but perfect strangers that they are not in contact with their family, agreed, that's quite possibly an ominous sign of someone who is a victim of a great many things who is about to start laying them all out, one gruesome detail after another, to you their potential new best friend. But if after knowing someone for some time you realize they never speak of their family, it may be because their family are shit, and they want to spare you the details.

Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree and just as well.

The military, fire departments, and police, which were originally all-male organisations, have been degraded and destroyed by the female influence that has been foisted upon them. These institutions, in my opinion, were much stronger and better off without the inclusion of women, which has also ruined the male-to-male camaraderie that these institutions provided for men.

^ And the ugly reality is that the women who have been "accepted" into these institutions are only there for the sole purpose of being used as easy-access prostitutes. Men don’t care about them or respect them the way they do other men.

r462 = Jordan Peterson

I can tell when children have autism, even in a photo. That stays quiet, I am telling NO ONE.

Well we know camaraderie among men doesn't include openly gay men, so not sure what you're waxing nostalgic about.

The inclusion of women in these fields forced them to lower the physical standards and that's what has made them worse. Our police force is full of fatties who can barely lift a donut.

Conservatives have a point in saying drag is like blackface. I think it sometimes can promote sexist stereotypes. But since the pearl-clutching is rooted in homophobia and not feminism, you won't hear me bring it up. Maybe if good-intentioned people were to raise the issue.

No matter how kind, intelligent, socially aware, insightful , charismatic and interesting you are, if you are not within the acceptable range of physical attractiveness you will be an outcast. Your actions will often be viewed in a negative light-- the very same actions that will be viewed positively in attractive people.

We ALL uphold this hierarchy whether we know it or not.

^^And this is enforced even more so for women (and gay men (though mostly by other gay men in this case))

Yes, I farted on your steak before I served it to you for dinner.

[quote]Tomboys are cool, parents, dads especially, will brag about their tomboy daughter.

But no one ever says "My Hisstopher is such a little nellie queen. He insists on using linen napkins for dinner and he's always critiquing my outfits like a regular little Mr. Blackwell!"

R458, I have always thought this and it is 100% true. No parent has proudly said, "My little Johnny is such a little sissy."

I guess that means stereotypical male attributes are more desirable than stereotypical female attributes.

People only celebrate Britney Spears because she's a victim in the tradition of Anna Nicole Smith. Really, what else does she have going for her? Definitely not music or brains. There should be a countermovement of "lock her up" to "Free Britney".

Jenna Ortega is an ugly short woman who doesn't deserve all the chances she is being given in the entertainment industry.

When older people are depressed - and sometimes suicidal - they should be given as much Oxy as they need. The other pharmaceuticals don't do crap.

OP I roll my eyes at my older Millennial/young Gen X cousins' cunty little kids, they're entitled and demanding snotty ADD brats, and all of them have some kind of evident disorder or neurosis. It's tantrums and special needs galore, and I say that as someone with low-needs ASD myself (that's managed by me alone, and that I never got special treatment over). A couple of the brats have even given my lovely sweet gentle pet lab a hard time when we have family gatherings, and that among other things they've done has properly pissed me off. And yet the little darlings are all my cousins can talk about besides their dull corporate cube jobs, presumably because their entire lives have been eclipsed by having to be World's Best Mom/Dad.

I used to handwave people who say that when people become parents they always and inevitably become insufferable and pompous one-dimensional drones to people without kids, but now I'm starting to see that the tired cliché is indeed based in fact. Up until my cousins all spawned and their kids acquired speech, I was ambivalent yet upbeat about potentially starting a family, but now you would have to pay me literal millions and buy me a MiniManse or give me a supercharged personal AmEx black card to bribe me into reproducing. I'm not getting suckered into that without incentive.

[quote] Tomboys are cool, parents, dads especially, will brag about their tomboy daughter.

Nope. My hick father was and always has been embarrassed that his mates and coworkers didn't want to fuck either of his two football-playing scrappy ladette homely daughters, even when we were nubile teens.

Different time frame R475

The tomboys get props pre-puberty

They're expected to grow out of it as they get older and "discover boys"

Whereas no one expects little Hisstopher to butch up when he "discovers girls"

Calling prostitutes “sex workers” to “humanize” them. Most people still think of them as trash, regardless of the newfangled terminology.

Marilyn Monroe and the endless parade of fraus who believe she’s this great tragedy of Hollywood with some kind of inspiring intellect. She was a predatory whore who used her body to get what she wanted (like most stars did and still do), basically the Kim Kardashian of her day. Her movies aren’t as memorable as her drug use, suicide, or sleeping around with the Kennedys.

R465, So you agree, then? The weakening of physical standards is a result of allowing women into these organisations. Ironically, they are now complaining about effeminate men (aka trans women) wanting to join in on their exclusive female groups and spaces.

Maybe brush up on your walleyed knowledge of history; see Alexander the Great for references.

R466, The only reason they say that is because they see it as a way to attack gay men without it being seen as homophobic, otherwise they don’t actually care about drag or blackface. And the "drag is like blackface" talking point wasn’t even their "idea" in the first place. It originated in white radical feminism, which they poached along with a number of other feminist subject matters.

I just think it’s a stupid comparison. There is no history of drag being used to lynch women or attack them. But if we are going down that line of thought, then women wearing trousers and other male attire was actually seen as offensive, and it could easily be argued that it should be banned once more.

R477 'sex workers' is actually far worse, because it legitimises the extreme crimina levels of abuse, deprivation, marginalisation and violence they face as merely and only work-related stress or injury that every quotidien drone has to endure.

Most New Mexicans have shitty accents.

People who use prostitutes, sex workers, whatever you want to call them, are as trashy and sleazy as the "workers" themselves.

The people who call themselves "Non Binary" are often so asexual looking and/or ugly that it's so funny to me how caught up in these definitions of their "sexuality/gender" they are. These people want to simply say, "I don't like sex or being touched and I want to be attractive to no one" but they instead say they are non binary. I truly don't understand why there is a need to make oneself look as less desirable as possible.

And don't even get me started on septum piercings. When I see women with these, all I can think of is they look like cattle. So gross.

Also, people who don't shower every day are gross and obviously do not work out to the point of breaking a sweat every day.

I always thought of myself as a very left leaning person until "the left" left me behind and pushed me into the center. Abortion after the first trimester is not ok. Medically transitioning mentally ill children is not ok , a different opinion is not hate speech and an open society should not be censoring people just for perceived "wrongthinking"

I've had really bad experiences with uncut guys, so before I'm going to be intimate, I'm always apprehensive. It's rare to find guys who are hygienic, but when I discover he's done a good job of cleaning himself with no cheese or odor, I am relieved, happy, and even more turned on. I don't have a preference either way for the look of a dick if it's cut or uncut. And I'm not interested in the rights or wrongs of the procedure. I just like dicks that don't stink!

[quote] When I hear someone is in ‘no contact’ with family members, it’s usually a red flag to me about them more than their family.

I'd rather have someone who isn't in contact with family members than someone who is an active player in a dysfunctional family (e.g., an enabler).

I realize those are not the only 2 choices, but people who are part of a dysfunctional family seem like they *talk* about it a lot. If you're not going to make any changes to the dynamic, I'd rather not hear about it.

Drag is gay blackface, for low level morons who mistake a perpetually heightened state of bitchiness for wit and wisdom. Drag performers and drag fans are disappointing people without other redeeming qualities, just sub-average men with nothing on offer.

Arthur Miller was a brilliant writer but marrying Marilyn Monroe was the act of a narcissistic fool.

Gay men should carry guns.

Florida doctors/dentists are highly unscrupulous and of a lower caliber than doctors elsewhere. The staff in their offices are also innately unethical, it's a job requirement.

Florida seems very bad, was the state always like that going back to 80s and 90s?

As a rule of thumb you can tell how good a playwright is by looking at the number of their plays that were adapted into memorable motion pictures. Examples good; Tennessee Williams, William Inge: Lots. Examples bad: Bruce Norris, Branden Jacob Jenkins, Tracy Letts: None or terrible ones.

Dylan Mulvaney being accepted as truly trans when we all know he’s a failed actor who knew this was the gig to propel him into stardom. He won’t cut his cock off so no he’s NOT a real woman! Many trans friends loathe this cunt for fucking up their chances of normalizing transitioning.

No one truly wants migrants invading this already fucked country but are too worried to express it. No one wants to fuck or marry one of them either. Every time I see a hijab I want to rip it off them and tell them to find freedom and stop letting an invisible man in the sky tell them how to live. I’m done with the overwhelming black and Hispanic and fat and non good looking people on tv and in advertisements! Models used to be hot, sexy and unattainable beauty we loved yet knew we had no chance achieving so we just settled for what we could get now everyone calls themselves a model or actor so everyone feels they’re important and good looking ! Gross ! Uncut cocks. Sorry they look weird , I can’t suck one thinking of the cheese inside of it. Julia Roberts is a cunt. Why she’s still beloved is beyond question!

R493 so a watertight and well-crafted play is essentially also a movie-script? Interested to hear more on this theory.

[quote]Every time I see a hijab I want to rip it off them and tell them to find freedom and stop letting an invisible man in the sky tell them how to live.

It's probably a visible man in their house telling them how to live.

Elmer Bernstein was better than Leonard Bernstein.

R495 , I was just asking myself when the racists would arrive.

I think the Hispanic immigrants will be great for this country. And they are hawt!

R492 I remember it was FL "doctors" who were behind the steroid scandal in baseball a few years back. A Rod, Manny Ramirez, a whole fleet of them went to Biogenesis in Miami where people with a looose background in biology pretended to have their PhD.

I don't understand why Markle still has supporters Is she evil? No. Is she important? Also no. Is she a grifter? Yes. I don't give a fuck about her sob stories about "racism" in the royal family. Sweetheart, you married into an upper-class family with a history of oppression and colonialism going back hundreds of years and you are surprised by all of that? You are either dumb, a grifter or both.

I’m not a fan of cut cocks, but I’m not from the US so don’t see many. I’ve never encountered any hygiene issues with uncut cocks fortunately, I think virtually all gay guys know the importance of washing. The head is the ugliest bit of a penis so could probably do with a hood, and the dark ring/scar tissue you see halfway down a cut shaft is highly unappealing. But, if I lived somewhere everyone was cut I’d be used to it, so…

Uncut guy here who washes himself all the time. A lot of men, even gay men, are shockingly dirty. Let's not even start on straight men, many who think that washing their asses is "gay".

^ yeah, I don’t even want to go there when it comes to straight man hygiene. Gay men generally know they need to put in a little effort. Hopefully.

I want to preface this by saying that I have said this before on DL and that I am not anti-trans.

I think if a man can say that he is a woman or woman can say that she is a man, Rachel Dolezal should not have had her life destroyed by saying that she was black. If you can flip your gender, then you should be able to change your race, if you want. There is no either/or in this.

You should be able to *be* handicapped too, if you feel you’re handicapped.

R494, A man cosplaying a woman thinking he has any moral high ground to lecture any other men cosplaying woman is tragic comedy.

Dylan isn’t doing anything your delusional trans friends haven’t already been doing, and for them to be outraged over this is the height of irony. Trans have been making a mockery of womanhood for years so now they are finally getting a taste of their own medicine.

The one good thing about this Dylan debacle is he’s exposing them for what they really are.

R463, How is that a Jordan Peterson take?? Women working in these industries are more likely to be raped, abused and forced into sex trafficking/prostitution. The Armed Forces are notorious for covering up such crimes.

Those who claim they were "pushed" from one political side and onto the other (often because someone on their side treated them badly or disagrees with their opinions) aren't intelligent or immature and should not be allowed on any side.

Speaking of race, Candace Owens looks like an old, busted chimp in a wig. I figure when MJ died, Bubbles got a new gig. The husband is way too good-looking for her. It must be an arranged marriage. I hear he’s on the DL.

R509 do you mean people like neo-neocon?

I used to believe that being gay was innate or that you were "born this way," but it seems that a lot of so-called "gay" men are just choosing to be gay. I don’t know how you can say you were in a heterosexual marriage or relationship for years and even managed to have kids, then claim you’re gay—if anything, you’ve actually proven that you are capable of being heterosexual. And no, I don’t buy that it was "internalized homophobia." At the end of the day, you’re still voluntarily participating in heterosexuality.

I think gay rights should only be granted to those who aren’t choosing to be gay.

[quote] I don’t know how you can say you were in a heterosexual marriage or relationship for years and even managed to have kids, then claim you’re gay—if anything, you’ve actually proven that you are capable of being heterosexual. And no, I don’t buy that it was "internalized homophobia." At the end of the day, you’re still voluntarily participating in heterosexuality.

R512 cf. most women ever.

Perhaps men are just finally catching up, or realising and remembering they can be fluid.

R464 we can spot each other in the Wild, too.

E.g. I (low-needs Level 1 ASD adult woman) know after only a few meetings and observations that my cousins' preteen son has the same, albeit to a slightly more noticeable degree than I did and do (he's a kid still and also a male, they struggle to mask).

Even I have enough tact and social grace to know not to say anything to my cousin or her partner about it, though. It's for them to come to recognise and accept, and hopefully not get fucking weird and puritanical and Munchausens-y about it like so many parents of autistic kids unfortunately do. Sometimes assessment and treatment does more harm than good. The best thing you can do with or for a high-functioning autistic person and for yourself is be there from a respectful safe distance.

(Obvious disclaimer: conversely, high-needs ASD people need a lot of hands-on help and support that is exhausting, and dealing with that takes it out of everyone and anyone including parents. It's hard thankless shitty work)

The "straight-ally" concept is pure bullshit to me, as well as Gay4Pay.

For me "straight allies" are any of these 2 kinds of guys:

a) Str8 guys who pretend to be "sexually ambiguous" just for popularity, but once in a while they need to remind you (or shove in your face) that they're still pussyhounds.

b) Actual closeted gays who decide to call themselves "allies" to feel less guilty of their closeted status.

Diversity is not our strength.

Diversity is a waste of time and builds resentment.

My bestie is a dick-chasing straight girl who says she is "queer" - and her teenage son is a self-described enby. It is SO hard to keep my mouth shut.

I don't pay for this site because Muriel's lockdowns actually force me to spend less time on here overall.

If I has constant access my usage would only increase

R519 haha you too? The few months off every so often does wonders for me men'ull elf

No matter what they say to your face, no matter how accepting they are to your face, your Mom and Dad wish you weren't gay.

I don't like "the lake" at all.

There are a hundred other professions who need a strike more than TV writers. They're a bunch of Ivy League grads and nepotism cases who get to be creative for a living.

If teachers or healthcare workers were to leave the workplace for weeks on end, society would collapse.

Ergonomic office chairs are the uncomfortable, overpriced and just another way to extort money out of company fraus who fall for anything 'wellness'.

Ashli Babbitt should just have been the appetizer in a wholesale gun-down of the J6 idiots.

I think sex with Matt Gaetz would be hawt. You know he's a gay freak in the sheets.

AMEN R525 ! If they had been black there would have been a slaughter. We all know its true. Also,if those cops would have killed a bunch at the outset,90% of those fucks would have shit themselves and ran away.

[quote]Let's not even start on straight men, many who think that washing their asses is "gay".

r503 I thought this was a joke when I first heard it.

It is not...

I was always baffled how it was even possible for a man with a wife and kids to come out as gay… I know that I personally would never be able to get it up for a woman. Any of these men are not truly gay, but somewhere on the bi spectrum. And honestly, I am jealous of them- they get the best of both worlds and have an element of choice.

Agreed R523

It's a comedown, but the comedown from the new economics of streaming will mean that most of them are going to be making $200K/year rather than $500K

It also means that the potential jackpot- writing a Friends or Modern Family where you can make millions in residuals is largely going away.

R523 If teachers and healthcare workers want to strike to force much needed positive change then they should. It goes on in other countries and they managed not to collapse. Don’t blame writers for having the follow through and organization to strike when they need to just because other groups are too cowardly or dysfunctional to make it happen. People aren’t even directly affected by the writer’s strike, this is purely an industry issue. Your resentment is unfounded.

[QUOTE] I used to believe that being gay was innate or that you were "born this way," but it seems that a lot of so-called "gay" men are just choosing to be gay. I don’t know how you can say you were in a heterosexual marriage or relationship for years and even managed to have kids, then claim you’re gay—if anything, you’ve actually proven that you are capable of being heterosexual. And no, I don’t buy that it was "internalized homophobia." At the end of the day, you’re still voluntarily participating in heterosexuality.

If they are willing to do anything beyond just having their dick sucked, then they are at least bi.

While there are some exceptions, women in leadership positions are generally ineffective.

While Obama is infinitely smarter than Dubya and Dump, he is no legal genius either.

[QUOTE] While Obama is infinitely smarter than Dubya and Dump, he is no legal genius either.

Uh, he went to HARVARD LAW, bitch.

Obama is awful. Obama, Bush, and Trump. Awful.

And he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

I'm a vegetarian, atheist, liberal. I am pro-choice, pro-immigrant, anti-gun, and support universal healthcare and free college. I believe rich people should be taxed at much higher rates to support public services and infrastructure.

There is nothing conservative about me, and I have never nor would I ever vote Republican.

I even support gender non-conformity and believe there are people with genuine gender dysphoria who are happier after transitioning. I support them and welcome them in our community.

That said, I also believe a lot of young people claiming to be trans (especially the NBs) are just conforming to trendy social contagion, and no one under 18 should be allowed any medical transition (hormones or surgery). Kids don't have the agency to fully grasp making permanent changes to their bodies.

I keep that last part to myself, because--no matter how liberal you may be on every other position--if you have any misgivings at all about the ideology, you get labeled a right wing nazi.

R211 Why do you keep that opinion a secret? Are you friends with a lot of Beyonce fans?

You really went out on a limb with that one R538.

R539, they would need to keep it a secret on social media where the Beyhive is always ready to attack. Only Swifties rival the Beyhive.

When it comes to women people love saying "she can do so much better" when she is dating some trashy dude when in reality, the vast majority of the time, water seeks its own level.

To piggyback on R542, "Blood will tell." Which means if you come from trash, you're probably trash.

435 Don't any gay married couples do this?

[quote] The story times at my local library are lo-fi and conducted by librarians or parents. I've never heard of entertainers or celebrities taking over story times at libraries.

I am surprised to hear that anyone who is the least bit sentient remains unaware of drag performers doing shows in libraries.

Agree R495 they’re gross and smell.

Too many straight people at my gay bars. Fuck off.

R538 - we think 100% alike. I’m the most liberal person I know. But when my 13 year-old niece asked me to call her “them” (and was bitchy and entitled about it), while chasing boys even more so - I just don’t call her anything now.

R529, I always find it funny when they tell Oprah-esque stories about "coming out" later in life and act as though they are doing something brave and courageous when in actuality they are cowards. The people who were always out are the ones who are truly brave. But you don't hear much about them.

I think most of my more left leaning AND right leaning friends are absolute morons.

I dumped all the far left and far right people from my life.

[quote]I believe there are people with genuine gender dysphoria who are happier after transitioning. I support them and welcome them in our community.

But isn’t that what led to this in the first place? You supported their delusions because it made them feel happy about themselves; then they wanted access to all these places and spaces to validate their identity; then they wanted you to use their approved language to validate their identity; they wanted you to sleep with them to validate their identity, etc., etc. And after all that, they are still not content and still demand validation.

Cate Blanchett looks like someone with awful B.O. , smelly breath and smelly feet

My priest's jizz tastes better than my dad's.

In 20 years people will look at the trans thing, especially teenage girls deciding they were boys, the same way we look at all the fake child abuse cases from the 80s

R538 I am nothing of what you are but agree with all of what you believe.

^ correction: Much of what you are, but not all.

I'm a die hard Democrat, but I think the party makes poor decisions sometimes choosing candidates. We would often have better results in many states if we didn't back black or Asian candidates, and instead found a white guy to run. We have to accept that there a a lot of racist assholes out there who won't vote for non-whites or women candidates, and it's better to give them someone they want, than it is to lose a seat.

I think Epstein DID commit suicide.

What the hell did he have to look forward to? He was stuck in jail, knowing his freedom was gone, his money would soon be gone, no more important friends, no more young chicks-no women at all. It was all over for him and he knew it. Even if he got out someday he would have had to betray everyone he knew. He took the thinking man's way out. And there is nothing odd at all about the jail staff neglecting their duties that night or any other night.

At the risk of sounding like a crazy cat lady (I’m more a dog person) I kind of prefer animals to human beings.

Agree R558

And black candidates with radical sounding first names that admittedly they did not choose themselves, but getting rural Wisconsites to vote for someone named "Mandela Jones" was always going to be an uphill struggle.

Barnes not Jones.

I think anyone with a ghetto name who wants to get ahead in a white-dominated field should have the sense to change it. Same for radical hairstyles, piercings and visible tattoos.

And, no matter what origin, if someone is clearly obese, they should recognise how it affects their career , social and personal opportunities.

Go along to get along.

Fats are always suspect. Never completely trust a fat.

[quote]That said, I also believe a lot of young people claiming to be trans (especially the NBs) are just conforming to trendy social contagion, and no one under 18 should be allowed any medical transition (hormones or surgery). Kids don't have the agency to fully grasp making permanent changes to their bodies.

Absolutely! R538

Whenever I hear/read, "I'm the most liberal person I know" my eyes tend to automatically do a full orbit in their socket.

[quote]We have to accept that there a a lot of racist assholes out there who won't vote for non-whites or women candidates

Some are racist, some are practical.

If god forbid Biden loses, it will be largely the fault of trans.

From expelling Al Franken to embracing Trans without question, Democrats are so good at slitting their own throats.

Transgenderism is a cult, just like Trumpism^.

R552 Not really , what has happened over the last couple of years is that "trans" was divorced from the need for dysphoria and became a loose umbrella term anyone could identify into . All the while social media went full on with identity politics and suddenly a lot of middle class white heterosexual kids found themselves in the oppressor role . So what now ? Can't change your race , can't change your sexuality , but changing your gender is as easy as changing pronouns in your bio . With one pronoun chaneg they are now no longer evil oppressors but members of a very oppressed minority . And those no dysphoria needed people then took over the trans(sexual) community and use their needs for a medical transition to advance queer/gender theory .

At the age of 53 I’ve come to realize I just don’t like my mother. My father was the caring nurturing parent while she was a complete narcissist.

R570 are you Conrad Jarrett?

[quote] I think anyone with a ghetto name who wants to get ahead in a white-dominated field should have the sense to change it.

Tell us more R563

R570 happy Mother’s Day

I have kept this bottled up for years, but: I think CAKEBALLS were a HORRIBLE trend! I am glad they finally had their sad, last days.

r571 r570 It did not take Conrad until age 53 to realize who his caring, nurturing parent was.

Of all the many, many, many odd behaviors on DL, the one where multiple posters point out minor flaws in the looks of an objectively hot actor or insta-ho and then declare them "hideous!" "AWG!" or worse, is the one that baffles me the most.

The same gay men who are Very Very Offended when straight men assume they care about sports and are following say, the NBA playoffs are often the same people who are shocked and slightly outraged when another guy guy says he's never watched Drag Race or one of the Housewives shows.

My favorite from that set, r576, is "his eyes are too close together."

Ha! R578 - that is a good one.

And it's always of that nature "his left nipple is bigger than his right nipple. Pass!" and lines like that.

I guess it's the old 'I"ll reject him before he rejects me" but still....

I feel awful for posting this. Wish I could take it back

I’ve got tons of talent.

R578 Ryan Gosling, Ryan Reynolds, Lloyd Bridges

I think toppling statues and renaming schools and other institutions is absurd and a waste of time. You don't learn about history by destroying it.

Soon kids will come out of grade school not knowing how to read or write and not sure what their gender is. This is horrifying.

There are too many Brit actors on American TV now.

Despite the old saying, money can, and does, buy happiness – but only up to a point. Also, physical objects can be just as important to a happy and healthy life as people and relationships. In hard fact is a lot of the misery in life is caused by people and relationships.

[quote] And he was the first black president of the Harvard Law Review.

He wasn’t the first black anything. He’s the first mixed-race president of the Review and the United States. Christopher Hitchens and Morgan Freeman among many others agree. This follows into my privately-held opinion, to wit: No one race deserves elevation above any other. Regardless of the past and and possibly present abuse and alienation of certain people with certain skin tones, abuse and alienation of people with other certain skin tones will NOT compensate for nor rectify the damage. To add to another poster’s words from earlier in the thread, it will only make things worse for everyone and is a great “divide-and-conquer” tactic for those who perpetuate more egregious abuses of human liberties and dignities and who wish to detract from and nullify any efforts to alter course.

That reminds me R586 of another secret opinion:

If Obama had looked like Derek Jeter or Wentworth Miller or other biracial men who clearly look biracial, the reaction to him would have been markedly different and he would have been regarded as biracial, not Black and the reaction from white racists would have been different. Ditto the Black community.

I have a feeling the people who know you r586 have a whole bunch of secret opinions about you.

R588 read some Booker T Washington and Web Dubois quotes. Pretty much mirror what R586 is saying.They saw the danger of race politics 100 years ago.

R587, how come you capitalized black but not white?

[quote]the danger of race politics

Never mind. This answers my question.

I agree with those who want to ban drag shows at schools, libraries, community centres etc, especially if the audience is under 16.

Drag shows are not educational. These are fun, drunken, campy festive stuff which belongs in a bar/ club etc

I resent the acronym LGBT. I didn't ask to be put in it, I don't have any affinity with any letter except the G, and even then, I don't feel obnoxious political gays represent me. I don't want to be lumped with the mentally ill trans.

The LGBT acronym was made up by the media and has done more harm than good to gay people because the ignorant put us in the same basket as the mentally ill trans and judge as accordingly.

Most people were coming around to accepting gay people, the majority at the very least tolerated us....that is until the media lumped us with the trans with the LGBT acronym and now we're all freaks to be legally discriminated against.

[quote]I resent the acronym LGBT.

It’s a cult. It’s just a way to exploit for money.

I hate Queer more than LGBT. I prefer "gay" to both.

Maybe, R588, but you should hear what they’re saying about you and your self-entitlement, which is a lot larger than your diseased cocklet. Kisses!

R559 Thank you, finally ! The guy was essentially just a sleazy predatory hedonist who lived for pleasure and nothing else. It's not like he was going to be writing a book of poetry or converting to Buddhism or something in jail. I think it just gets people excited to think about some sort of pedo ring illuminati taking him out.

R542 this isn't PC but the vast majority of women I knew who were chronically associated with violent and sociopathic men were basically sociopath lite themselves. Or extremely venal and shallow.

[quote]There are too many Brit actors on American TV now.

Insularity, misplaced superiority, and stupidity are the Three Graces of the U.S.A.

[quote]how come you capitalized black but not white?

I'm not the poster, but I'll guess it's because it's current AP style.