r/ControversialOpinions

>At 12 years old, upon returning home from school, I saw my dad sitting in the living room. I immediately knew something was wrong.

>“Come here,” he said, with my computer in his lap. He proceeded to show me the pictures of men kissing that he had found in my search history.

>“If you live this way, either you’re gonna kill yourself or someone’s going to go out and kill you for it,” he told me. “And neither of those things matter because God will never love you again.”

>I couldn’t say anything. In our world, my dad was the one with the answers. He was an elder in our church, the second-highest rung in authority and the highest form of control. If he said it, it had to be true.

>For the next two years, I pretended like my feelings weren’t there. I felt like I was just waiting for the rest of my life to collapse. I knew being gay wasn’t an option.

>So when I found conversion therapy at 15, it felt like the answer. I didn’t know it would cause me to spend the next seven years of my life undoing myself.

Unless you redefine racism to exclude white people from the definition or don't consider white to be a race, racism against white people is a thing.

Why is it so normal to bully people for having small penises or roast beef? Sure maybe its not your preference but you shouldn’t be bullying other people for it. Why are you thinking of someones genitals like that anyway?

First off, I’m not trying to be homophobic. Personally, I’m straight, but your preference isn’t my business and I’m not going to go out of my way to pick on you because, again, it really isn’t my business. I just don’t like it when people try to assign these things to animals who are just trying to be animals. My cat is a cat. He is not gender fluid or pansexual or ace. He is a cat.

I can't even be near a Subway sandwich shop or Steakhouse, the meat smell is AWFUL. I genuinely believe a pile of trash or landfill is more tolerable than the smell of freshly cooked meat.

Am I the only one who thinks this? People look at me like I'm mean or crazy. Hey it's not my fault but the food smells so repulsive I can't be nearby. Sorry!

Heck, I even think most bathrooms smell better than a restaurant serving lots of meat.

A lot of people use this as some sort of “gotcha” moment not realizing that’s not how liking someone works, just because I don’t find you ugly doesn’t mean I wanna date you

Let's be honest, everyone and I mean EVERYONE has choked their chicken/paddled their pink canoe at some point in their lives. So to shame people for doing something that is a normal part of human sexuality honestly makes no sense to me. Now I know what some of you are thinking "BeInG a PoRn AdDiCt Is BaD!". Well here's the thing, "porn addiction" is not classified as a mental disorder or behavioral addiction and even if porn does have the potential to be addictive for some people, it is nowhere near the level of shit like alcoholism, heroin addiction, or compulsive gambling all of which can actually ruin your life and fuck up your mental capabilities. If someone wants to make masturbation and pornography use their entire sexuality, honestly as long as they aren't looking at anything illegal like CSAM or content depicting bestiality then who the fuck am I to judge. What someone does in the privacy of their own home is their business not mine, so if someone wants to beat their meat to videos of Asian midgets hanging upside from their feet while they get double penetrated in both holes by BBC shemales for 12+ hours a day that's not my place to judge. There's also the "argument" of "PoRn AfFeCtS yOuR aBiLiTy To CoNnEcT wItH pEoPlE iN a RoMaNtIc AnD eMoTiOnAl WaY aNd MaKeS yOu LeSs CoNfIdEnT". First off, those people were probably having self confidence issues to begin with before they discovered internet porn. Secondly, dating and relationships are a complete scam and a colossal waste of time and money. If someone puts a lot of effort into trying to win someone over but ends up failing or succeeding but having a relationship that's only skin deep with at best mediocre sex, is it really any goddamn wonder why someone would come to the conclusion that romantic relationships aren't worth pursuing and thus turn to porn to fill that void. You could go on a dozen or more dates with someone and spend a shitload of money on that person and be "rewarded" with, at best mediocre sex that doesn't satisfy you? Why the fuck would anyone with an IQ above -10 spend countless amounts of their time and money for the sake of winning over someone who may be a shitty person and doesn't satisfy them sexually when they could just look at one of many hundreds of millions of porn videos and enjoy someone attractive without having to deal with their bullshit qualities and spend hundreds if not thousands of dollars/pound sterling/euros/rubles/yen/pesos/lira/zloty/insert other currency here hoping to win them over and most likely get nothing in the end. I'm fully aware that nobody is entitled to sex but since you have to jump through so many hoops like a tiger in a circus to get a chance at experiencing it it's just not worth pursuing, especially since they most likely can't satisfy them the way they can just satisfy themselves by taking matters into their own hands, pun entirely intended. "Coomers" and "Gooners" are not bad people just because they spend a great deal of their free time spanking their monkey/flicking their bean and the fucking prudes who spend all their time complaining about them are pieces of shit and most likely projecting because they are that deep in denial. It's one thing to find a behavior that someone else engages in odd, but it's another thing entirely to shame them and make them out to be a piece of shit for doing nothing inherently wrong. So yeah fuck anybody who hates "coomers" or "gooners" and to anyone reading this who identifies as a "coomer" or a "gooner", just keep on edging you fucking perverted pornosexual piggy.

TLDR: "Coomers" and "Gooners" are based, fuck their detractors, porn addiction is not real, romance and sex with other people are overrated and not worth pursuing.

So, I'm not sure if y'all have seen this lady or not on TikTok but she goes by Mary Magdalene Reborn or Mrs. Christ or Lord Zion. She says the most despicable things about non-black people, mainly white people. She calls them "Pink people" and "Sun-dodging lice babies". She calls Africans "Crusty-foot" and "African booty scratcher". She calls Hispanics "Border hopping rice making immigrants". And she calls Arabs "Clear skinned Arab colonizers" as a pejorative. She even said that she was god 2 times. She has states that she wants a race war with white people and black people are the real Jews. Lord forbid if a white person did this, it would cause a national outrage.

We are literally grown adult human beings and taxpayers, there is no reason for us to not vote. People often say women think emotionally as a counterpoint. Yes, we excel in emotional thinking but that doesn’t make us any less logical. Emotional thinking is also a necessity. A president should be empathetic so they can make choices best for the people snd the country. There is no reason for us to have a cold hearted president who feels nothing for people. Its a good thing to be emotionally intelligent. Another argument is that women cant regulate their emotions. Most studies prove otherwise and that men often struggle more to control/regulate their emotions than women. Besides if they used the first argument they are contradicting themselves because if you are more emotionally intelligent and better with processing you will be better with emotional regulation. If you genuinely believe we shouldn’t be able to vote you are a misogynist and stupid. Even if you are a fellow woman believing you shouldn’t have voting rights.

It doesn't make a man mysoginist to prefer a Male Doctor.

Would it make a woman mysoginist if she also preferred a male doctor?

or toxic femininity if she preferred a female doctor?

In fact, I heard a lot of women say they didn't want to vote for a woman in the last election, if anything would be considered mysoginist then wouldn't that be it?

The title is very straightforward, and I say this as a straight person myself. No hate.

Women who carry themselves like ladies do not use foul language.

After a formal commitment (ie. Adding boyfriend/girlfriend labels), I feel better about paying/splitting. Before? Absolutely not.

Before a commitment, if I'm asked to split. I feel like I'm being used.

Why? Because men have grown up their whole lives being told to be the provider. That it's their job to chase. That it's their job to cover the bill and not only that, but they should buy flowers and stuff to go the extra mile.

Just as in my whole life, I've been told to be polite. To smile. To avoid conflict. To be demure. To not ask for things. To be helpful and caring and loving.

It is hard for me not to participate in the gender roles that I've been metaphorically waterboarded my whole life to accept. If it is easy for a man to not participate in his gender-equivalent roles early on, then is he even really that interested in me? The societal pattern is that men put less effort into relationships the longer it goes on, so I very much require high (but not smothering) effort at the start.

This isn't the same as gold digging because it doesn't matter to me what he does or doesn't buy. Just that he doesn't ask me to buy it. I actually would be happier if he took me on a hike than if he bought some crazy expensive dinner. It's important that he plans things regardless but the price of those things matter little. I'll never ask for him to buy things or even to do things that cost money early on - so it's a bit backwards when he decides to do something and then ask me to pay/split. Imo, that's rude. Only after I am to the point in the relationship that I'm comfortable to pay/split will I ask to do things that cost money.

As a black man the “democratic plantation” is just a load of bullshit, did democrats invent the kkk and cause slavery? Yes but the same conservatives and republicans you see would be democrats back in those days and I’m not saying as a minority you have to be a democrat but voting for a side that doesn’t like you because “your different and can think for yourself” is just stupid

These parties are not what they used to be but that’s not the issue. The problem lies with the hivemind-like followers. Of course not everyone is like that however it seems that majority of people on either side don’t really have their own view points. It’s all about affiliation. Where’s the individual? Where are the actual opinions of that human being? If you even claim to be one or the other you are immediately labeled the “enemy” without discussion. Call it denial but I refuse to believe all these people just solely agree with just one side of the political divide. Take away these parties and let us debate as individuals. There’s nothing more I can’t stand than someone who will do nothing but follow someone else’s beliefs with no regards to their own. We need to open our eyes and use some more brain power to understand and find solutions to these challenges and problems our nation has instead of fighting each other because one claims or be red or blue

I do understand these parties exist for a reason in our country and probably a little because it’s easier to pick from 2 sides than hundreds or thousands however I think both the people and their beliefs are starting to become too much of the same thing. It feels like we’d rather kill each other for affiliations than actually solve our problems.

referring to loli/shota being just legal child porn

Something I notice a lot is that a lot of the people who defend the ownership of the Falkland Islands by the British is that they are often anti-zionists who criticize the West Bank settlements and Russia occupation on Crimea and Ukraine. Which to me make them have double standards because they are criticizing something they do.

The common argument is "The people in the falkland want to be British", but the same can be told of the West Bank settlers and the people in Crimea, of course colonists want to be part of the country otherwise they wouldn't be colonies, that's like the entire point and I don't know if this is done on purpose to distract or they really aren't aware of this basic logic flaw.

The Falklands were owned by Argentina from the 1820s up to 1833 and the British literally kicked out the people there, and then settled it. That's no different from the events mentioned before.

Now let's reply all the common lies/ misconception that the pro colony people have about.

Lie / Misconception number one:

"The British owned the falklands before Argentina was a country"
False, Argentina as an independent entity owned the falkland from the 1820s to 1833 where the British took it from Argentina by force (you can look it up in the falklands timelines)

If you talk about before times, then it was also under the viceroyalty, but this is irrelevant, the entire premise is that Argentina owned it as an independent state.

Lie / Misconceptionnumber 2:
"Argentines are colonizers anyway, they are Italian and Spanish"

This is a half truth, but not a truth. First of all, the Spanish origin population from the country originally mixed with the natives, because the Spanish way of conquista was extremely different from the French, Belgians or the British. So when the country was new the population was very small but it was mixed, just like the rest of Latin America, mestizos were people of both spanish and native ancestry who were often subject to the Spanish crown. The Italians and Spanish later are immigrants that further mixed with them, that's why a really large amount of Argentines have indigenous ancestry, it's considerably high in places like Jujuy for example, with the lowest in Buenos Aires (if you don't believe me just check the 23andme page and search "Argentinian" you will see that most have at least a small degree of Indigenous ancestry, denying land for mixing is like saying that Palestinians mixing with arabs also lose their right to land).

With that said, I think that morally you really cannot be anti-zionist settlement, and anti-russian occupation while supporting the British claim. Unless your support is because you prefer one group over another (for example you like the British and dislike Argentinians, but also dislike Russians); however this would be a personal preference and not a moral nor logical argument. You either are against colonialism and land theft of you aren't.