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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Being objectified and harassed sucks, but I still disagree. Dealing with creeps sucks, but you're far better off being attractive as a man or a woman than being ugly or plain. I'm on the spectrum and I'm certainly at risk of being exploited, but if you're an unattractive autistic male, you're severely disabled and you have a monumental struggle ahead of you. I still believe that disadvantaged males and incels don't have enough empathy for girls who are attractive. We might be able to get dates but we also have to deal with serious predators who will abuse us once we're alone.
If you're an unattractive autistic male, you're going to be completely screwed for jobs. I have older friends who work and they got hired at the same time as girls their age and they got dumped into jobs like bagging and denied promotion because they aren't attractive and they're denied social skills.
The dangers that come with being an attractive girl are literally life threatening but it's still understandable why there are boys who think that it's worth it from their perspective.