Unpopular/Controversial Opinions #3

SmilingScarlet:

I actually do too, you're not alone. Let's start a no-pizza party

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I really dislike culture appropriation, not sorry, but I do.

You're awesome, the anti pizza party shall commence.

I live in England and I can't stand fish and chips. Just the smell makes me sick ._.

I love the Kids React series (and the other React series from the Fine Bros.), and I especially love when they're given "old" technology like VHS tapes or old cameras. However, there are always people in the comments section who complain about "today's generation having it easy" or whatever, and it always reminds me of what people in my parents' generation say about my generation. (I could go on forever about how annoying it is to hear old people complain that teenagers are all obsessed with taking selfies and other false generalizations.)

I just don't understand why people feel the need to hate it when younger people genuinely aren't familiar with the technology of yesterday. We don't choose when we're born; the kids in Kids React have grown up in a different time period, so they're used to more advanced things. (I couldn't exactly form a coherent way to phrase all of that. )

So many gamers, mostly male gamers, are upset about the straight romance options for male Inquisitors for the game Dragon Age: Inquisition for two reasons: there aren't as many as straight romance options for female Inquisitors and they think the options the male Inquisitors do get are unattractive. In my opinion, when it comes down to romances in video games, they are basically fully voiced pixels. Either you accept the pixels or you don't. Plus, the game doesn't come out for eight more days, so you don't even know what personalities these characters have.

I'm enjoying the new Assassin's Creed game. It's aesthetically pleasing and some of the visuals when synchronizing have been downright stunning and, even if I would have preferred not to play as a white dude again, Arno's fun. I prefer him to Edward Kenway, even though he'll never match up to Connor. I have experienced any character's faces vanishing, and I haven't fallen through the floor yet either. I'm actually annoyed I haven't hit any glitches I feel like I'm missing out.

Anyway it's much better than Black Flag. At least I'm enjoying it a lot more than I did Black Flag.

My parents have been watching Sons of Anarchy on netflix off and on, and all I have to say is: I don't get it.

Not the show, the show is ridiculously easy to follow and you can even figure out exactly what plot point is going to happen if you come in like, halfway through a scene, but I don't get why it's popular.

The writing of the show is horrendous. Not a single character is likable for me and they all constantly do shit that's racist, violent and/or stupid. Also, some of the stuff they put in there just makes zero sense whatsoever. Seriously though, a guy biting through denim and biting deep enough into a man's ass to leave a perfect gouged teeth imprint just for a convoluted reason to have 10 seconds of potential nerves 'cause a character has to use her injured arm? That same guy somehow getting high from a local anesthetic even though that's literally not how that shit works?

My dad says he only watches the show because it's like watching a train wreck, but I think that's a bad reason to watch a show.

Not too happy about marsala being chosen as the Pantone colour of the year for 2015.

The Tokyo Ghoul anime was awful, in it's own right and compared to the manga. They ruined the story, completely wrecked it and it's my favourite story this year. Then they ruined Kaneki's character, they made him dumb and whiney. I'm not going to even bother with the second season.

I still like Jenna Marbles. I know she's problematic and I definitely do not condone some of what she does (some of the more offensive jokes she's done), but I still enjoy watching her videos.

I could care less about who Katniss ends up with in HG. I wish they hadn't even shown it in the books. I also don't believe there is a love triangle in the books. A love line maybe. Two men respectfully allowing Katniss to work out her feelings.

I really just think that we should promote adoption more than spending millions or billions on figuring out way to artificially create a viable fertilised egg for infertile couples. The fact that people are already talking about how the new "three parent" breakthrough can be used to potentially provide the way for creating children for couples who physically cannot have them (not just parents who need the mitochondrial DNA replaced to avoid serious illness and death in their children like it's intended to do) just bothers me a bit. Is it really so insanely important to people that the children they raise have their DNA that they are willing to spend excessive amounts of money on a procedure like that if it existed rather than even consider adopting? I guess I shouldn't be surprised that parental love is conditional based on DNA makeup for some people.

I don't think cell phones are responsible for the destruction of society, and I don't think texting is "destroying relationships" or whatever. A lot of folks seem to forget that there's a real, living human on the other side of every screen - technology has been a blessing for those who live far away from friends and family. And people rail against those who take lots of pictures and share them all over the place, but isn't that the point? If something is important to you and you want to share those memories with friends, pictures are a great way to immortalize them.

I know I can't be one of the only ones who feel this way, based on the popularity of that kind of technology these days, but it seems like there are so many millennials like me who sound like baby boomers that constantly blame us for ruining the world, or whatever.

I have nothing against 5 Seconds of Summer's music, but I absolutely despise them as people.

I believe in this radical idea that people can do as they please as long as they aren't infringing on someone else's rights.

I absolutely hate the romanticization of Romeo and Juliet. I do not think it is actually a romance. 6 people died because a guy couldn't keep it in his pants. That's what I think of the story.

The way that people are portraying and discussing what's going on in Baltimore, particularly on Facebook, is terribly racist and missing the point entirely.

I don't care for Iris West (character on the Flash) at all.

BadStreetBoys:

I absolutely hate the romanticization of Romeo and Juliet. I do not think it is actually a romance. 6 people died because a guy couldn't keep it in his pants. That's what I think of the story.

Same here. I was watching a recap of it the other day and I was just like ??? people talk of how strange it is that rape is romanticized (fiction/movies where the character, typically female, is raped/forced into some sexual act but is still in love with her rapist) and I'm sitting here like, why is this also romanticized? Why is it romantic that they killed themselves because they met like two days ago? Sure, being star crossed lovers might be romantic, but suicide isn't. I get that they "couldn't bare to live without each other" but just... what? It's not romantic, it's kind of absurd. But that was then, I don't really know much about the culture. Still, it just has that weird connotation of being romantic when it's honestly not with today's standards. (disclaimer: IMO)

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Honestly I'm on the edge of becoming one of those "down with the USA" people. I'm not about to terrorize the country or make threats, but you better believe I'm getting a new citizenship as soon as possible. I won't support anything against the US but I'm not going to be upset either. There's nothing so great about the US anymore that can overpower all the negatives.

@ The Real Mitt Romney
It's $2,350 to give up your citizenship, if you're being real about this.

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I don't like how people are patting Kylie Jenner on the back for admitting she has lip fillers since she's been lying from the start. But whatever. Doesn't mean a thing that I've been teased about my full lips but she gets praise for temporary artificially engineered ones.

My unpop opinion: Nothing the 1D guys have said over Twitter is actually that bad/offensive/terrible.

I feel like this is the mildest Twitter-fight I've ever seen. But I think a lot of people think it's real heated stuff.