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Given the fact that my generation is better educated as a whole than others, I’d like to think that we’re capable of solving some of the problems left by the previous two or three generations, but when I look at things like Tumblr, I realize that’s never going to happen.
You’d think the generation that grew up being told we could do/be anything we wanted, only to graduate college right as the economy collapsed, would be eager to roll up its sleeves and fix the grossly unfair economic system that benefits the wealthy at the expense of everyone else.
Instead, we have Tumblr… where every PC-Thug and Social-Justice-Tryhard is so preoccupied calling themselves “oppressed victims of white malehood,” that they can’t fathom banding together with their enemy, “the patriarchy” to cut the wealthy down to size.
Even when that idea is pointed out to them, they’re so distracted by the “race and sex” of the wealthy that they can’t understand that it’s irrelevant to solving the problem.
The solution is not to make more rich minorities. The solution is to make fewer rich people and enrich everyone else, white, black, man, woman, whatever.
Human history is one long struggle between the haves and have-nots, i.e. rich and poor.
The reason the rich stay rich is because they put all their effort into playing the poor against each other, just like here on tumblr: i.e. “You’re white, you have privilege. You’re straight. You have privilege. You’re male, you have privilege. You’re thin. You have privilege,” or even something as mundane as, “You like this, ergo I don’t like you. You hate that, ergo I hate you.” When the poor argue amongst themselves, fighting over who has it worse, who’s right or wrong, the rich just laugh all the way to the bank. Free tip, proletariat… YOU’RE ALL WRONG.
Wake me when my generation actually grows up and stops arguing amongst themselves about social justice, and starts focusing on the REAL problem: economic justice.
Tax the wealthy.
Stop government handouts to businesses.
Stop having kids.
Nationalize the energy and healthcare industries.
It seems like “fat-fashion” or “fatshion” is basically an excuse for girls to pretend it’s Abstract Halloween all year round.
I’m sorry, but whether or not you go outside dressed like that is irrelevant.
Does anyone in their right mind actually think this Jackson Pollack upchuck of colours looks “good” on this hipsterpotamus?
You look like a clown… and people are right to laugh at you.
Can you do whatever you want because it’s your body/your choice/your whatever? Of course… But that won’t stop people from looking and making fun of you if you post that shit online.
P.S. I do not have a problem with fat people. I am one. I just have a problem with the ones who dress like Divine.
It’s an unpopular opinions blog. No fucking duh there’s gonna be triggering shit on here. Just don’t be stupid about it.
And before people say “You don’t know what it’s like! Poor me sob sob sob I was an idiot and didn’t avoid something that I should have known would upset me.” So many things on this blog have triggered me. But instead of try to get pity for it I just get off the blog. Stop being idiots and follow my example.
Glorifying something doesn’t just mean “Guys, I have this wrong with me I’m special. Make me feel better.” It’s not talking about it as the serious problem it is. It’s reblogging ever depressing picture and then talking about how it’s the most tragically beautiful picture on the internet. It’s constantly coddling anyone that says they have these issues. It’s making it seem like it’s this beautiful, deep thing and it’s not. Tumblr makes these issues into more of a trend than anything else, anyone else, anywhere else.
And before you bitch about people glorifying these problems, take a good look at your blog, do you really not see anything that could make these problems seem appealing? Not even in the least bit? Really?
And this goes for more than just the things listed in the picture, but this is just to get it started.
All I ever see on here nowadays is either “i read books and am somewhat intelligent. I am obviously an introvert” or “I think I have mental problems. I haven’t seen a professional, but I took an online test and I reblog black and white pictures all day!”
I mean no offense to anyone who is genuinely mentally ill/genuinely has problems/genuinely had something save their life/genuinely are introverted, this post is not directed at any of you.
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to understand or sympathize with people who self-harm.
No, I don’t always agree with your unpopular opinions. Sometimes I plain as shit hate what some people have to say. And I find it so fucking stupid how worked up people get about stuff and how thick-headed they can be. But I still love this blog.
Because it has absolutely no reservations about what is “right” or “wrong”
or how there might not be a “right” or “wrong.”
All this blog does is just let people vent and be pissed off
About ANYTHING. No matter how immoral or totally fucked up it could be. It has no judgement. Sure, some people judge other people’s posts and decide they want to comment on them and react to them. But whatever, that’s their deal. That’s YOUR fight to fight. Your sermon to preach.
And I appreciate every single last one of these posts, no matter how small minded or indisputably fucked up they are.
I appreciate that there is a place on the internet where people really can just be totally fucking crazy about things they believe whole-heartedly.
And I know this makes me sound like some sort of sap at the beginning of the Styx river (where all the souls hang out that couldn’t pick a side and therefore have to spend the rest of eternity fighting for what they may or may not believe in, Dante’s Inferno). But it’s how I feel. So I guess this isn’t really an unpopular opinion so much as it’s just a super appreciation for the fact that this blog exists.
I believe this blog equals us. It makes everyone equally as stubborn as everyone else. Because if you’re willing to go to the trouble of putting your opinion on here and making a case for it, then don’t try to tell me that you’re not at least a little biased towards your own mind.
And that’s totally okay. It really is.
It’s okay to have faith in something and believe in it, whatever it is, even if it’s twisted.
Putting it someplace like this is a healthy way of expressing it. If you firmly believe that it is 100% okay to masturbate to Cows, then by all fucking means, tell this blog about it, and get that shit off your chest. Don’t let it rumble inside you until one day you find yourself wrestling the bull. (Pun fully intended.)
The admin of this blog have taken it upon themselves to let everyone speak completely freely (minus nudity or pornography, which is understandable because there are some legal issues there) and I just think that’s the most open-minded thing anyone on tumblr has ever done. I think that’s the most open-minded thing anyone could EVER do.
So thankyou, The-Unpopular-Opinions.tumblr.com
Thankyou so fucking much <3
I’ve seen this post circulating Tumblr for a long time now and whilst I do not wish to offend anyone who has had/is having suicidal thoughts, I would like to share my opinion. I completely agree that it must have been very disturbing to see a picture of yourself like this on the internet. However, it’s incomprehensible to me that this girl would be angry at someone who didn’t try to save her. It’s obvious that this girl went up there for a reason and for an onlooker (trust me, I’ve witnessed this) sometimes it’s difficult to decide whether you have the right to intervene.
I mean no offence by this, but if this girl really wanted to die then she would be grateful that this onlooker didn’t try and save her. Why would you go to the top of a building, obviously in an extremely suicidal state, threaten to jump but then call someone who didn’t try and save you “selfish”? If you didn’t want someone taking pictures of you in such a vulnerable state then why make your suicide public? Threatening to jump off a building is obviously going to draw a crowd and the fact remains that someone did talk this girl out of it. She stated that “the last thing I wanted at that moment was to be saved”, well then why does she care so much about one person not trying to save her?
My father is a Police Officer and the amount of times he has had to go out and talk kids off roof tops is unreal. This girl may have wanted to die at the time but in the long run she’s probably glad she lived. It is my opinion that people who go and stand on roof tops don’t really want to go through with the suicide but just want some random member of the public to “save” them and reassure them that life is worth living. If this is the case, then don’t bother going up there, causing a scene, and perhaps even wasting Police time. Just seriously don’t bother. If someone truly wanted to commit suicide they would do it in the privacy of their own home where they might have no chance of being saved. If you don’t want someone taking pictures of you about to jump off a rooftop, then don’t go up there and give them the chance to take these pictures. “Attention-seeking” is a phrase I’m trying to avoid in this opinion but… well, you understand me, I hope.
As I said, I mean no offence by this opinion and, this bit was cut out of the picture, someone said that this particular girl is now dead. If this is the case, then I am sorry. I hope this makes sense.
It annoys me when people make a point of arguing against me when I bitch about my mom.
Me and her have not had/got the best relationship. To sum it, she never wanted me, she wasn’t around much during my childhood (despite that I lived with her.) When she was there, she paid no interest in me and still doesn’t to this day. The woman is the reason I’m messed up now.
Whenever someone asks and I say that I don’t like her, and that I don’t want her in my future, they start telling me how I’m selfish and how she brought me into this world and brought me up and gave me life etc. etc. etc.
Respect works both ways. Giving life is fantastic, but if you aren’t prepared to raise your child regardless of it’s needs/wants/problems then don’t have one. My mom has never wanted to deal with me and I’m a burden to her. She ruined my childhood so forgive me if I don’t want my children exposed to that.
A lot of people say that I’m punishing her, being a teenager or I should (my favorite) “let it go”. It pisses me off. Live what I did and lets see how you feel about your mom afterwards.
To me this perpetual thigh gap trend is so fucking ugly and I can’t wait for it be over. I’m so tired of seeing these stupid ass photos on my dash of rail thin torsos and mile wide thigh gaps with obsessive “omg so beautiful and perff<3” reblogs (time to unfollow a bunch of you). If you have one naturally, that’s your body. It depends on your HIP PLACEMENT and measurements. You don’t really get it from losing a shit load of weight from those thinspo blogs you follow. (In some cases you may never know you get one until you do see one) You can be skinny and still have your thighs rub together. Glamorizing it is stupid. FuckYeahThighGap? Lol more like Fuck Your Thigh Gap.
