Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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I completely agree: the name has been compromised. Haters have successfully turned it into something negative. Perhaps it will get the respect it’s due if it can leave some baggage behind.
I was one of many who fell for the propaganda about feminists being man haters and wanting superiority, and I’m sure some do. However most women I know who claim to be feminists are so in the egalitarian sense. They just want equal rights and opportunity. My own eye opening was when we had our first kid. At the time my company had no paternity leave. It was a group of feminists at work who raised a stink (unasked) to try to get that changed, that men also deserve some time off for the birth of their child
I don't think it's because of the name. The people against the movement won't like it no matter what you call it. Like Suffragettes(back in the day,) Pride, LGBTQ+, Black Lives Matter, DEI, and hell, depending on your crowd, even "Equality" and "Empathy" are sneered at.
I think it’s a similar argument to “woke”. The original meaning was a good thing but the term has so much baggage now that people abandoned it
I disagree. "Woke" was always tongue-in-cheek and never represented specific goals.