Unpopular Opinions (just for fun) part 2

[HeathcliffMoorland]

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what hashtag are they using on twitter

High heels aren't sexy.

Women should be allowed to have body hair and if it starts creeping down their legs let them flaunt it and shout WoooHoooo in changing rooms.

Going to gyms is unnatural.

Watching TV is good for you.

Alousie - I think people who express some of the opinions given here deserve to be judged.

*"That the use of 'gay' as a pejorative word does not necessarily indicate homophobia."

no but it does indicate a level of immaturity*

Actually I completely agree with that. In its most literal sense, as I know a lot of young people and teenagers who use it with not a shred of homophobia attached.
You can talk to them about Stonewall and sham marriages and religious bigotry and all the rest of it all you like, but to them gay isn't an insult because being gay isn't a bad thing, so actually it's gone full circle.

I'm not saying people shouldn't be educated about the origins of language and understand where words' meanings come from, in fact I find it fascinating, I just don't think you can dictate where language goes.

The last third of the last thread showed a lot of horrid folk tbh - hiding behind a "laugh" and a username...

Never. Eating. Prawns. Again.

I was on the old thread. Was anything that bad?

I found this really funny at first, when people were venting about coffee/ dogs/ etc, but now I feel really sad and guilty about what I have posted, I didn't foresee how it would turn out and am staying away from aibu for a while.

This is true even ds's gay friends say it

Peachy left MN due to some of the comments about SN.

I wish someone would tell me which ones are the offensive posts, its moving bloody fast and some of us are down to a 3G network.

I havnt come across anything dodgy...yet.

I didn't see anything bad about SN I thought I was pushing the envelope with my "obesity isn't an illness" rant

I want to see what is going on on Twitter but I can only just about work out how to log in :(

There's no such thing as ADHD
HAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAA you are so effing FUNNY
try coming and teaching some of my classes for a day or an HOUR and see what you think then :-?

Can someone post the twitter link please?

The no such thing as adhd it's all the parents fault stuff, and motability cars should be marked as such.

This is linked to twitter? Oh well!

twitter.com/#!/search/mumsnet

That was in reply to bupcakes, not my opinion.

but younger Kids used 'gay' in a nasty way - my dd's 6/8 have both had it shouted at them for being nice to other girls - they have been taunted and called GAY and gay is also equated with 'bad' and 'wrong' and 'shite' - which they find confusing since they are brought up to see being gay as nothing short of ordinary, acceptable and not worth commenting on in a silly way

so I think it's IS homohpobic - GAY = bad

i dont get why some people are afraid to let others have differing opinions

so what if someone believes ADHD and all the other letters dont exist, you believe it does, so just agree to differ

Lenin, yep, it's all about context isn't it? So for some people it would be a non-homophobic term (hence my original post) and for some it would be oppressive or downright insulting.

Like the N word in some ways, totally unacceptable to use in lots of contexts, but yet adopted by the very people it is seen to discriminate against. You'd never say you CANNOT use that word even if you're black, which was kind of where I was coming from with my original flippant trite ill-thought-out post.

But then flippancy was rather the point of this thread wasn't it! Not, 'do you have a very unpopular opinion you'd like to reasonably and coherently justify'!

What was in reply to me? I don't think I said anything regarding ADHD?