What’s your most controversial opinion?

[crazychemgirl]

Inverted dick > regular dick

 

[jeff_is_smiling]

*to clarify* I’m not in favour of ground sausage. Thick, salty, meaty German, Polish, Spanish, African, sometimes American sausage, is delicious! Just not on pizza.
But I love a good bratwurst, kielbasa, chorizo, boerewors or breakfast sausage.

Excellent reply! I understand you better now...

 

[RjThoughts]

My son and his fiancée are 5 minutes into their engagement, both well under 25 and she is especially being inundated by friends, family, coworkers and strangers alike suggesting she hurry up and start a family. She is 21 tomorrow!

Women are routinely pressured, early, often and even relentlessly, to have children. It’s gross. It’s the first thing my others sons (now ex) girlfriend’s Mother told me when they started dating. ‘You know she doesn’t want kids, right?’ And? Sounds like a conversation between our adult kids, without input from either of us! As it is, she wants kids and he does not, hence why they’re no longer dating, but at 23 she was already tired of her parents talking about grandchildren.

January 1984, we were 19
October 1985, our wedding, me 21, she 20

NOT a single family member DEMANDED or even SUGGEST that we have children! Not from her small family, not from my immigrant great-grandmother, not from my country folk aunts, uncles, and cousins!

Society can go FUCK THEMSELVES!! If a couple doesn't want to have children immediately, that's their choice, and YOU have to live with it!!

 

[RjThoughts]

Broccoli … on pizza????

My wife's favorite is white sauce, mushrooms, broccoli, and peppers

 

[RjThoughts]

If a Polish sausage has any meat other than just pork it's NOT kielbasa, it's something fake!!!

 

[AlexBailey]

There are countless ways AI can be a valuable resource.

 

[RcyMtnGrl]

Society can go FUCK THEMSELVES!! If a couple doesn't want to have children immediately, that's their choice, and YOU have to live with it!!

I absolutely agree. I’ll take it one further and say if an individual doesn’t want children, ever, that’s their choice and should be respected, even if it means a relationship is no longer compatible. I have never and will never put pressure on my sons to have children. One has a puppy, and I am quite content to spoil her and my niblings, in lieu of grandkids!

I don’t ask, or make comment on people who don’t have children, only have one, have eight, or on how people raise the children they have, unless they’re putting them in harms way. No car seat, I’ll say something. A pacifier, not my business.

 

[RjThoughts]

I absolutely agree. I’ll take it one further and say if an individual doesn’t want children, ever, that’s their choice and should be respected, even if it means a relationship is no longer compatible. I have never and will never put pressure on my sons to have children. One has a puppy, and I am quite content to spoil her and my niblings, in lieu of grandkids!

I don’t ask, or make comment on people who don’t have children, only have one, have eight, or on how people raise the children they have, unless they’re putting them in harms way. No car seat, I’ll say something. A pacifier, not my business.

My mother had two grandchildren before my wife gave birth.
My in-laws had three before my wife gave birth.
NOT a single one put pressure on us.

And all three counted the pets we and my sister-in-law had as "grandfurries!"

 

[crazychemgirl]

After watching The Princess Bride again for the hundredth time… I say it is not overrated.

 

[RjThoughts]

After watching The Princess Bride again for the hundredth time… I say it is not overrated.

The behind the scene talks are awesome.
Andre's fart story, ROFL!!

 

[J_Bone]

1984 was a cautionary tale not a how to manual

Pretty much a tale come true. And punctuation matters, FYI.

 

[SmokingFap]

I think the use of the emoji should be made illegal.

 

[Baztrachian]

What society are you a part of where the societal pressure is on women to not have kids? Have you ever heard parents talking to a 20 something daughter in a serious relationship in our society?

I live and work in California and the general opinion of the group I see every day is that pregnancy is a disease and that men are oppressors of women. Which is why few of my stories are set in this nonsensical place.

 

[Baztrachian]

I don’t think it’s society selling women “bullshit” about waiting to have kids… I think everyone is broke and also wanting to be more established in life before jumping into the kid zone … plus the dating world is a horrible toxic cesspool so women aren’t necessarily meeting the men they want to procreate with as early.

It is bullshit when the net effect is saying that women should put off having kids until their forties and then telling them that it's too dangerous to have kids in their forties.

 

[ToPleaseHim]

"What’s your most controversial opinion?"​

That women owe it to themselves to get laid at the age when they want to get laid and then have babies at an early age. This bullshit that society sold to women about waiting until they're forty to even try to have a kid is bullshit.

This is a bad take. I suppose it does belong in this thread, but it is also highlighting that you aren’t fully aware of the situation. Women can and absolutely should “get laid” when they choose to and with a partner who understands consent. Women are under no obligation to have children, though. Respect women’s choices.

I live and work in California and the general opinion of the group I see every day is that pregnancy is a disease and that men are oppressors of women. Which is why few of my stories are set in this nonsensical place.

Dude. Women are CHOOSING to not have children. Societal pressure is to get married and have babies. Younger women are allowed to have their feelings and they are absolutely right. If I were in my 20s right now, there is no fucking way I would be planning to have children. We are presently living in a dystopia and Gen Z is fully aware.

 

[Bry1313]

I know the Olympics are a financial horror show for the hosts, but dammit I love watching them

 

[SherlockianMan]

Fans are the worst thing something creative can have. Once fans feel they are entitled to something because they liked that original thing, it stifles creativity and makes the art repetitive and dull.

 

[HoosierPapi]

After watching The Princess Bride again for the hundredth time… I say it is not overrated.

Inconceivable.

 

[Qky75]

Slogan for '25; one in the home one in the ground.

 

[HoosierPapi]

President Bush should be imprisoned for war crimes including sending our men and women to war based on lies, illegally detaining enemy prisoners and authorizing torture.

 

[SherlockianMan]

President Bush should be imprisoned for war crimes including sending our men and women to war based on lies, illegally detaining enemy prisoners and authorizing torture.

I'd go further and say, with the exception of maybe Carter, every living president should be tried for war crimes.

 

[crazychemgirl]

Tacos are better than pizza

 

[R34D]

Tacos are better than pizza

Wait, OG street tacos or any old taco?

 

[Booboobear84]

Tacos are better than pizza

Depends on the taco and the pizza. I'm a fence sitter on this one. I wasn't until the street food taco place opened up in town. They are amazing.

 

[Booboobear84]

My son and his fiancée are 5 minutes into their engagement, both well under 25 and she is especially being inundated by friends, family, coworkers and strangers alike suggesting she hurry up and start a family. She is 21 tomorrow!

Women are routinely pressured, early, often and even relentlessly, to have children. It’s gross. It’s the first thing my others sons (now ex) girlfriend’s Mother told me when they started dating. ‘You know she doesn’t want kids, right?’ And? Sounds like a conversation between our adult kids, without input from either of us! As it is, she wants kids and he does not, hence why they’re no longer dating, but at 23 she was already tired of her parents talking about grandchildren.

I'm going to disagree here. Society (at least around me in Boston) tells women to delay child bearing until they have established a career. I think it's a mistake. Having children when you are young and healthy makes the raising of them easier.
THAT SAID, pressuring kids into the decision is flat out wrong. I would advise them and explain my reasons, but it's such a life changing decision that THEY NEED TO BE BOUGHT IN NOT PRESSURED.