The Controversial Side.
I dislike and don’t respect the following groups of people, for the reasons provided.
1. Feminists.
Women have been able to vote for 90 years (It’ll be 91 on August 18th). All other forms of discrimination against women have been abolished. You can be police officers, or soldiers, or doctors, or any other traditionally male-dominated job. What are you trying to work towards? Equal wages? Sorry, but it isn’t going to happen. Not from a chauvinistic standpoint, but a practical one. The simple fact is, whether you like it or not, women are biologically programmed to get pregnant. And unless every single woman on the planet decides to allow the human race to die out, women will become pregnant. And that risk of not having an able worker for however long maternity leave is scares off possible employers. Not only is it several months without an employee; it’s several months paying an employee who doesn’t attend work, and paying someone to fill in during the interim. It’s not sexist to say that you won’t get paid as much because, at any time, you may be subject to getting leave with pay for several months. It’s biological fact. It’s not sexist to plan for what will, in most cases, happen eventually.
I don’t get what “feminists” are fighting for these days. Back in the ‘10’s and ‘20’s, it made perfect sense. Equality is a noble thing to fight for. I respect that. Now, all I see are women trying to replace a male-dominated society with a female-dominated one. That’s not equality. That’s like saying, “I’m Jewish, and I want to overthrow Hitler in order to install myself as a new dictator and kill all the Germans.” Does that seem right to you? Of course not, I’d hope. Two wrongs don’t make a right. You’re as equal as you’re ever going to get, enjoy your extremely significant gains over your thousands upon thousands of ancestors.
Do you realize that in the last century that women have gone from idle playthings for men, with no hope for the future other than raising children, to world leaders? After literally thousands of years of being ingrained in that same homemaking lifepath? Women have overthrown thousands of years of sexism and discrimination in order to finally achieve globally recognized prominence, and still you want more?
2. Vegetarians.
First, I want to clarify something. I do not disrespect or dislike those who are vegetarian for religious reasons. To make a horrible pun, I’ve got no beef with those people. I’m all for respecting other religions, and those are no different. You guys are exempt from this tirade.
Cows, pigs, sheep, and chickens. Those are the four animals that are most strongly debated about when it comes to vegetarianism. Obviously, you can be weird and eat badger or raccoon or something ridiculous, but that’s an entirely different problem.
Those four animals that I’ve named above are all animals that would die within days of being released into the wild. Every single one of those animals would literally, and without exaggeration, be dead within days of it being released into it’s “natural habitat.” How can I know this? Because none of those animals, as we know them, existed before being domesticated by humans.
Just think: when’s the last time you saw a wild cow running around? How about a wild pig? I don’t mean boar, the pig’s undomesticated cousin. I mean pig: pink, hairless pig. You’ve never seen those? Exactly.
This is a wild boar, as seen in the wild. Note the thick fur to keep it warm, which also serves as camouflage. Also notice, if you can, the strong muscles and (relatively) long legs. Not pictured are the boar’s tusks, but rest assured it has them.
This is a domesticated pig. Notice how it has no hair, leaving its bright pink skin visible. Notice it’s short fat legs, and its overall fatness in general. You can’t see them, but this pig has no tusks.
Pigs are literally designed to be eaten through generations of breeding. Don’t start this “Give the animals rights!” garbage; if you want that, you should go start an organization for robots’ rights too. That would be an apt analogy. And so I submit, that if these animals are literally designed to be eaten, who are we to not go about eating them? They wouldn’t fare any better in the wild; they’d be eaten all the same.
If an animal is literally designed to be eaten, I don’t get why you’d refuse to eat it. What are you trying to do? Stick an unprepared animal in the wild? Give it better conditions? Do you want to give robots better living conditions? Apt analogy. Think about it.
3. Organized religion.
…why?
The majority of religions preach about an all-knowing, all-powerful, all-good god (or in the case of some religions, many gods). They claim to know more about this all-powerful being than the common man, and that a man unacquainted with their religion is hopeless to understand god. My question is why? Why would it be that way? What sort of all-good god would choose to disseminate his information through a statistically small portion of human population? Why is it unreasonable to say that a common man, with no affiliation to any organized body of religion, can achieve knowledge of this divine being by himself?
This is all overlooking the general senselessness of it. For this argument I will need Sanservino’s argument regarding fraternities. His friends asked him to join their fraternity while in college, and described how they would only give him easy jobs and minimal charge. Sanservino responded, “Why? I already go to your parties, drink your beer, and ‘have meaningful conversations’ with your women. Why should I join?”
I’d like to compare this argument to the Catholic Church. Catholicism says that all people will go to heaven, regardless of faith, as long as they’ve lived honorable lives. So if all good people are destined for heaven regardless, what is the purpose behind paying dues and working for the church?
Morality is stipulated by social conventions, not a “religious authority.” You don’t need an authority telling you what morality is if you’re a rational, free-thinking human being. You should know that murder is wrong without being taught about it in church, or synagogue, or mosque, or whatever your primary place of worship is.
Don’t get me wrong; I’m not an atheist. I just don’t see the point in submitting to a supposed authority in order to understand god.
4. Underage Drinkers.
I’ve discussed this at length several times, and I’ll be damned if I have to do it again here. Go Facebook-stalk a little better if you want an idea of my thoughs on this.
5. Extreme Right-Wing Politicians.
If you take away services that people have begun to feel entitled to after 80 years of them being around, you’re going to get a whole lot of civil unrest. If you tax the poor without taxing the rich, you’re going to get a whole lot of civil unrest (see: Revolutionary America). If you declare war on every nation that looks at you funny, other nations will form a coalition to take you down (see: Nazi Germany). Nuclear weapons are not toys, and neither are nuclear plants (see: Chernobyl). Hands-off government doesn’t actually work (see: Britain during the Depression). Separation of church and state is a good thing (see: every nation in the last 200 years).
Get out of my house.
6. Extreme Left-Wing Politicians.
Instituting more services that will only increase the national debt is bad. If you tax the rich without taxing the poor, you’ll ruin the economy. If you never commit to a war, you’ll be walked over by every other nation. Nuclear plants are less harmful to the environment than oil refineries. Total economic control sucks. You should care about the people more than the trees. You should care about your people more than others.
Seriously, get out of my house.
7. The Rest.
There are definitely more. I just can’t think of them right now.