Top 31 Unpopular Opinions of the Week

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Eleonora Bader
Aug 5, 2023 1:00 PM EDT

A lot of people think that free speech has gone out the window, that cancel culture is rearing its big ugly head and scaring folk into speaking their mind. Ever heard of the spiral of silence? People will only voice their opinions if they think that other people may share the same views. Then people end up staying silent on a lot of other opinions they may hold, and poof, who knows if anybody actually agrees on anything anymore? What if everyone is holding back the same opinion? It's exhausting just to think about.

I have definitely felt the pressure to zip my mouth, as I don't exactly want everyone to roast me. Thankfully, r/unpopuaropinions exists, a safe-ish space where we can speak our minds. We'll still get some backlash, but that's kind of the point of the subreddit. Below you'll find a compilation of some pretty unpopular opinions. Or maybe they're less unpopular than they originally thought, seeing as some of them had a lot of upvotes. Scroll down and be the judge. For more, here is an employee who refuses to work overtime when they're not getting paid for it, forcing their boss to change the rules.

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  • 01
    Font - Posted by u/EquivalentEmotion 950 22 days ago 2 You can't rarely/never have s with your partner and expect them to be faithful.
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  • 02
    Font - Pretty much what the title says. People expect faithfulness from their partner when their partner isn't even trying to meet their needs. Medical issues are an exception. I'm not saying you have to have s with your partner everyday but there are
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  • 03
    Font - men I've talked to where their wives refuse to have s with them for months at a time, then their wives get mad when they cheat. What did you expect??
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  • 04
    Font - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion Posted by u/Pluck 6 days ago S 2 Couples in serious relationships should have absolutely no issues with checking each other's phone whenever
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    Font - If you love your partner, you'd want them to feel secure. Any suspicions should be allayed as soon as possible. If they will feel better by snooping on your phone, I don't see a problem with that. Small doses of suspicion is healthy *normal in a relationship. Suspicion isn't black and white, there is a gradual scale. The
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    Font - sooner you address it, the healthier for the relationship. If your partner is behaving irrationally paranoid, then there are other issues that need to be addressed, and them wanting to check your phone is only a symptom of a larger problem. Irrational behavior is nuanced and only you can decide when they've crossed that line.
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  • 07
    Font - Blind trust has probably led to many failed relationships that could have otherwise led to a happy one. People behave better with a little bit of checks and balances... it's human nature.
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  • 08
    Font - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion u/TheBeast798 17 hours ago Posted by adhd kid Phones are not why kids aren't going outside.
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  • 09
    Font - I see a lot of people talkong about how kids don't play outside like they used to, or how they're spoiled on their phones, making posts like "What did people do all day without the internet?" People treat that as if outside is somehow now a foreign concept to younger generations, and often the blame is put on phones
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  • 10
    Font - phones phones, the big evil cellphone. Now for context, I'm 21, and I grew up in the midwest, so I didn't have a smartphome until like 14 years old, and it was barely even a smartphone. Now, I personally think that blaming phones for the issue of less kids outside is just plain
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    Font - ignorant. I have two completely separate reasons for believing this. The first being, the way I grew up. I grew up throughout the 2000s amd 2010s, the era most point to as "the last time kids went outside and weren't distracted by those dang phones". Now, I didn't have a phone
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  • 12
    Font - for a very long time. But I did have movies, a PS2, and the internet. I have very fond memories of all these things, but I also know that among these things, I constantly went outside with friends. These were good distractions too, YouTube, and Newgrounds content. Still, we went
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  • 13
    Font - outside a lot, and had to knock on eachother's doors to see who was available. The second reason is that people assume kids don't want to go outside. Personally, I see kids playing outside in my neighborhood all the time.. well, when it's not 105°F
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  • 14
    Font - outside. Not even just in my neighborhood, I see kids and teenagers walking, biking, or skating all around here when I'm driving. People assume phones are some evil thing that's k outside, but kids are drawn to the outside still. Outside has just become infinitely more uncomfortable, mean, and
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  • 15
    Font - dangerous since I was a kid. So I don't blame them for staying inside a little, especially when they have the convenience to just text their friends to see who's available right off the bat, saving them a trip.
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    Font - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion Posted by u/dude_seven 5 days ago People are too obsessed with "icks" and lack a base level of empathy or tolerance
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    Font - Past few years I feel like "icks" have infected the social and cultural conversation. So many people have the most pathetic reasons to be "turned off" by something. • "Seeing someone's b. crack when they bent over" (like that's somehow a personal trait)
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    Font - • "People who fall down" (yes, this is an actual "ick" i've heard someone say) "People who have less than X ammount of followers on "I • "People who want to pay for their own ● meal in a group." (I don't even know where to begin with that one...)
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  • 19
    Font - • "When people check themselves out in a mirror at the gym." ( • "The way they drank / ate something." Any many similar "icks". I find all of that ridiculous. People categorize others by a singular, often random and involuntary, action and completely refuse to engage with
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  • 20
    Font - that person. It's shallow, unempathetic and it often shows the person is very insecure and constantly thinks about how actions are perceived.
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  • 21
    Font - r/unpopularopinion - Posted by u/QueenDee97 3 days ago People Are Allowed To Be Bitter UNPOPULAR OPINION
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  • 22
    Font - Pretending to be nice when everything is crumbling in life is one of the worst feelings, something that puts even more pressure onto life. I also despise fake niceness. Being polite for the sake of being polite is annoying. A true kind society is one that provides basic necessities and
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  • 23
    Font - advocates for all fundamentally, not a society that is fundamentally exploitative with a thin coat of politeness over it. What makes me feel safe in life is not being on the brink of being broke or feel alienated in a walkless society, not someone holding the door for me Imao.
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    Rectangle - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion · Posted by u/Ryn4 2 days ago Well that went well Award Having pictures taken of yourself is ego-centric Certified Unpopular Opinion
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    Font - There are times where you obviously need your picture taken, such as medical records, licenses, and and mugshots, but I've always thought taking your own picture, or having someone take a picture of you, showed that you're full of yourself.
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    Font - I've been told my dating profile sucks because I don't have a lot of variety in my pictures, but I also don't have my picture taken all the time because I don't need f external validation--a lesson I was taught recently when I was admitted into residential treatment.
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    Font - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion Posted by u/Humblerequest_21 5 days ago · People who take sports seriously are pathetic
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    Font - I likes sports - be it football/soccer, basketball, combat sports but I cringe when I see people treat literal games played by other people as life and d It's fine to have hobbies but I mean to treat a game as more than that is a joke and borders on being pathetic. Your day being ruined by a game outside
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  • 29
    Font - of your control is pathetic. I'm sure the millionaires who's livelihood is made playing this game don't care as much as some of the fans I've seen.
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  • 30
    Font - Posted by u/Donnieboah 9 days ago No, I am not "lucky" or privileged just because I have food, a house, and water. These are basic things that do not make me lucky; it is those who cannot have these things who are unlucky. 2
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    Font - "Oh you have to consider yourself very lucky! You're privileged!" No b I'm not. I'm supposed to eat. I'm supposed to sleep comfy. I'm supposed to drink a d water. I respect the child who have to walk 45 miles to get a glass of water for brush his teeth, but his drastic situation doesn't define me as privileged. I'm just living the basic things that everyone should live. Goodnight.
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    Font - UNPOPULAR OPINION r/unpopularopinion Posted by u/Important_Salad_5158 18 hours ago We shouldn't raise the retirement age because old employees ruin the workforce
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    Font - Apologies in advance for generalizing. Nope, I don't believe they bring wisdom. or experience. They do bring bloated wages, outdated workplace culture ideas, and incompetence. I used to work as an attorney and I thought this was industry-specific. Older attorneys rarely even went to court, they
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  • 34
    Font - didn't even try to keep up with changing statutes or cases, and many couldn't do legal research online so their work was inefficient and outdated. Whatever. That's just the field, right? Now I'm at more of a policy/lobbying role that has a digital currency component, and I've never seen such weaponized
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  • 35
    Font - incompetence or just plain insubordination. I've literally started forming workgroups with all my older employees so I can give them stupid tasks that sound important on paper. Instead of reading the research I carefully compile before each meeting, if an older client is on a call I KNOW I'm going to spend half of my billable hour
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  • 36
    Font - explaining the very simple one-pager I put together. I'll probably spend the other half just trying to get them into the Zoom call. I realize how ageist this sounds. I don't think older workers are actually less intelligent. However, I think a combination of the world changing quickly around them with the socially
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  • 37
    Font - accepted "kids these days" attitude leads to useless colleagues and impossible clients. Despite the narrative, I'd take a Zoomer or a Millennial who wants extra vacation days over an older employee who refuses to learn how to use Google Docs because Word Perfect is just fine any day of the week.
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