Unpopular Opinions

Kale is revolting and I don't understand why anyone would want to eat it.[/QUOTE

Oh no, kale is not revolting. Try it sauteed with garlic, a generous amount of oil, and a few dashes of shoyu or tamari soy sauce. It is fantastic as a side that way!

However, those super foods, raw food kale salads that generally include day old leaves are not good at all, more like garden mulch. I don't know why those are so popular.

Kale is meant to be cooked. (There are only a handful of the raw kale salads I've tried that have been worthwhile--and, kale needs to be very fresh with a very rich kind of dressing for this to be the case.)
 
Okay, my unpopular opinions. I have many: I am generally a very contrarian person, but I will limit my list.

First, I don't think that what was accomplished in the women's movement is necessarily all positive. I think it leaves a huge space out for those types of women who are not aggressive about wanting to move up a career ladder. I believe there are a lot of women (including myself) who would be much happier if they could just be homemakers, volunteers, mothers--and leave the bulk of worry about financial matters to someone else. I also believe that for certain types, knowing that you don't "need a man" to be financially stable (because women are so encouraged to find and pursue careers of their own), makes dating difficult because there is no imperative or practical reason to seek out a mate. I know that I, for one, sometimes feel like a "casualty" of that movement.

Second, I hate yoga. I mean I really, really hate yoga. It's not so much the movements I dislike, there are actually a few of them that I think can be worthwhile--but it's all that pseudo-spiritual talk that the teachers do. I think the whole movement is rife with an immense amount of hypocrisy. Most of the poses are ugly; the practice is incredibly grueling and challenging; and, going to a yoga class can be incredibly stressful (lots of germs around with all those sweaty, near naked people--yuck, yuck, yuck!). But the popular opinion these days is "Oh, my gosh, I love yoga! You don't love yoga? That's crazy!--I love yoga!" So many of these people claim they like yoga because it helps them relieve anxiety or because it provides them with "health benefits." I call bullshit on that: most of the people I see going to yoga classes look like they are going because they just want to make their bodies look good for their significant others or so they can be slim like their friends.
 
Second, I hate yoga. I mean I really, really hate yoga. It's not so much the movements I dislike, there are actually a few of them that I think can be worthwhile--but it's all that pseudo-spiritual talk that the teachers do. I think the whole movement is rife with an immense amount of hypocrisy. Most of the poses are ugly; the practice is incredibly grueling and challenging; and, going to a yoga class can be incredibly stressful (lots of germs around with all those sweaty, near naked people--yuck, yuck, yuck!). But the popular opinion these days is "Oh, my gosh, I love yoga! You don't love yoga? That's crazy!--I love yoga!" So many of these people claim they like yoga because it helps them relieve anxiety or because it provides them with "health benefits." I call bullshit on that: most of the people I see going to yoga classes look like they are going because they just want to make their bodies look good for their significant others or so they can be slim like their friends.

Oh, yoga is the worst. Everyone is always "Yoga is so relaxing! I feel so spiritual/connected to the universe/other bullshit". But no, the woo-woo pseudo spiritual crap is annoying and all those poses are irritating. It is so stressful. If I'm going to work out, I'm doing something intense like spin class or lifting weights or kickboxing.
 
I hate salmon.

I'm not fond of it either, and really only like it when made with a bacon stuffing and smeared with butter, or in a dip with cream cheese - which detracts from its low-calorie and healthful qualities.
 
Second, I hate yoga. I mean I really, really hate yoga. It's not so much the movements I dislike, there are actually a few of them that I think can be worthwhile--but it's all that pseudo-spiritual talk that the teachers do.

And the pseudo-spiritual elevator music they play for yoga classes. It's supposed to be calming and help one to attain a feeling of enlightenment I suppose. But I merely find it irritating.
 
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What about unpopular opinions regarding films? Like movies that everyone seemed to dislike but you like?

I like Signs.

I like The Village.

I like The Happening.

I know folks loved The Sixth Sense and then were disappointed in M. Night's other work but I always felt there was a freshness to his films.
 
First, I don't think that what was accomplished in the women's movement is necessarily all positive. I think it leaves a huge space out for those types of women who are not aggressive about wanting to move up a career ladder. I believe there are a lot of women (including myself) who would be much happier if they could just be homemakers, volunteers, mothers--and leave the bulk of worry about financial matters to someone else.
Isn't this still an option? Women can talk to their husbands about that and consider what options they have..There are still many housewives around...

I also believe that for certain types, knowing that you don't "need a man" to be financially stable (because women are so encouraged to find and pursue careers of their own), makes dating difficult because there is no imperative or practical reason to seek out a mate. I know that I, for one, sometimes feel like a "casualty" of that movement.
Where do you live? A lot of single people feel pressured to get married and start a family, especially once you hit a certain age :scream:

Especially in Asian countries like China... An SKII video touched this subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irfd74z52Cw
 
I really like yoga, but hate yoga calsses because of the spirutial ommmm bulshit I have to listen to and pretend I am looking for inner self and world tranquility. And no - I will not center myself!

I hate Amazon, but I own Kindle (it was a gift...).
 
I hate any type of fad diets (unless the person has a real medical need for it) and people obsessing about it: gluten free, lactose free, sugar free, carbo free, caffeine free ..... pleasure free for me. I also hate that people who have been enlightened by it try to desperately telling you how you gonna die if you keep on enjoying desert, bread, pasta or cheese with a cup of coffee to rinse it down. Just eat of everything in moderation and you'll be fine, again I'm talking about people with no specific medical condition.
I love cheesy romantic, period and dance related movies
I don't like inspirational or motivational books or movies where the title could be "if you want it hard enough, you can make anything possible". Set people up for unrealistic view of life.

Movies:
Don't get the Godfather
Liked the 1st Twilight movie :shuffle: (quite ashamed of that one)
Think Brad Pitt, Georges Clooney, Ben Affleck and all that club can't really act
Hate musicals
Think the end of Al Pacino's career is horrendous, De Niro's not much better. Such a shame.
 
I often wonder this, too, actually. It's one thing if a particular thing comes up in conversation and you say "Ewwww," quite another if you initiate the conversation by saying "I watched X and it was so annoying."

Well, then, why did you watch it? :confused:

I'm one of those people who will only very rarely ditch a book partway through, or a tv series. I have been able to ditch a tv series at the end of a season but i just. Have. To. Know. What. Happens. I read the twighlight books because I wanted to know what happened and I never tire of telling people how much i hated them too :shuffle:
 
Isn't this still an option? Women can talk to their husbands about that and consider what options they have..There are still many housewives around...

Where do you live? A lot of single people feel pressured to get married and start a family, especially once you hit a certain age :scream:

Especially in Asian countries like China... An SKII video touched this subject : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=irfd74z52Cw

The video is very moving. I had no idea there was so much pressure. I like the message and that the parents finally appeared to understand.
 
Second, I hate yoga. I mean I really, really hate yoga. It's not so much the movements I dislike, there are actually a few of them that I think can be worthwhile--but it's all that pseudo-spiritual talk that the teachers do. I think the whole movement is rife with an immense amount of hypocrisy. Most of the poses are ugly; the practice is incredibly grueling and challenging; and, going to a yoga class can be incredibly stressful (lots of germs around with all those sweaty, near naked people--yuck, yuck, yuck!). But the popular opinion these days is "Oh, my gosh, I love yoga! You don't love yoga? That's crazy!--I love yoga!" So many of these people claim they like yoga because it helps them relieve anxiety or because it provides them with "health benefits." I call bullshit on that: most of the people I see going to yoga classes look like they are going because they just want to make their bodies look good for their significant others or so they can be slim like their friends.
You just reminded me of someone I used to work part-time for in a small academic library. Her real love was yoga and she gave free classes at lunchtime. I was surprised that almost no one came. I came to learn that as a library director she was a total witch, but then she would put on her white yoga pantsuit and go all peace and harmony. Then one day she went witchy on me and I quit. :/ I don't care for yoga either, but I can tune out the pseudo-religious crap. Some of the moves are downright dangerous, especially for people over 40 or so, and none of the instructors I came across (all four or five of them) showed any inkling of that.
 
Although I acknowledge the brilliance of Shakespeare, I think more current and relevant works should be taught in high school literature classes.

I think it depends on the teacher. I found Shakespeare to be a complete bore until I got to college and, as an English major, "had" to take a required course on the subject, which was taught by my English Dept. advisor. He made the plays interesting and entertaining (i remember we watched the movie version of "Henry V" and I kept seeing Paul Wylie in front of my eyes :D during certain parts of the soundtrack), and I ended up with either an A or an A- in the class.

He also let us get up and do a soliloquy for extra credit. One guy got up and did the "Friends, Romans, countrymen" speech dressed up in a toga.
 
Isn't this still an option? Women can talk to their husbands about that and consider what options they have..There are still many housewives around...

Not so sure about that, but can't say without doing some research and don't have time for that at the moment.

I think a lot of married women with kids work because the additional income is needed.

And I also think that many work because they want to. Being a housewife is a specific type of job encompassing child-care, housecleaning, cooking, driving, scheduling, and various administrative/management responsibilities. I read once that if those tasks were tallied up for a housewife, their annual income would be considerable.

So, a woman would need to be interested in the type of work being a housewife entails to be happy as a housewife.

She would also need to be able to negotiate the economic imbalance with her husband that inherent in not earning income. That imbalance can in turn become a power imbalance.

Mostly, I think a lot of women want to participate in the public sphere/marketplace, as opposed to being isolated at home with kids.

Though of course very rich women don't have to work, or take care of their own children and homes.
 
There are still housewives around, but it has become a luxury. It probably sort of always was in a way. For a lot of lower income women and women of color, many always worked even during the time where wives stayed at home.

Yes. I remember reading sometime ago that women produce about 80% of the worlds food. In many parts of the world, they drop their babies, leave them with relatives or older siblings, and go right back to the fields.
 
There are still housewives around, but it has become a luxury. It probably sort of always was in a way.

Yep. Anyone today can be a housewife if they can get themselves a wealthy enough spouse. Just like always.

My best friend is a housewife. She married a pilot.
 
Just curious, what do you call women who stay-at-home if they aren't mothers? I do have a lot of respect for women and men who stay-at-home and do a good job of it. I don't think I can do it. I'm seriously bad at house work, and it is a whole lot of labor and being in charge of basically everything. I get it from my mom, and she loves it when I tell people that. :)
 

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