Unpopular opinions

[redchild]

I agree with you redchild re shopping, especially for clothes. I even had a man get really upset with me a few times in one conversation recently, and he even went so far as to question my femininity (!!), because I declared that I hated shopping! I go to a shop to buy what I need to buy and I get out. If I can do it, I’ll order it from town and have my mailman bring it out rather than have to go into town and shop for it myself! Shopping for books though, is a whole different thing altogether.

Same here. I always know where the exits are in a clothing store, rather than where the men's section is, or the women's. Ten minutes in a clothing/department store feels like an hour. Meanwhile I can spend an hour in a bookstore but only feel like ten minutes have passed.

For many people there is only sport but for just as many, sport is a small facet of who they are. Maybe I’ve just been around too many sports-mad people all my life…no doubt living in Australia has much to do with it also…if you don’t watch or play sport, your level of patriotism or right to be in our country is severely questioned!!

I just find the fact that you must support the city's sports team for no other reason than you live there, utterly illogical and ridiculous. Team members get traded off all the time, so it's not really love for the players, but to demonstrate loyalty to some sort of abstraction...

...Like patriotism! Just because I was born in this country, I have to LOVE its government? Why should I "support the troops" when the people who are commanding the troops are incompetent idiots?! Such forced patriotism is an artificial 'love' that is really just another form of control.

Oh, oh, and well done meat? I can't eat it any other way, though germs have nothing to do with it...I just prefer it that way, a bit like how I prefer strawberry milk over chocolate? As for restaurants, I eat so much red meat here that I always order seafood when I get an opportunity to eat out!

That's okay, so long as it's not out of an illusory fear of germs

Oh, another food related thing I don't like is fat-phobia. That pat of butter in the frying pan isn't going to kill you-- the stressing out that there is butter in the pan is going to kill you!