You know, things that wind people up for seemingly inexplicable reasons. Like the fact that ethnic group A killed X number of people B so many hundreds of years ago. I could understand it if it was something that happened within your lifetime, or that of someone you knew, but that far back? Come on!
Homosexuality is another one. Yeah, I’ll admit to not wanting to see a couple of guys go at it all hot and heavy, but so long as they’re consenting adults, who am I to say that they shouldn’t?
Differing religious views. So this person doesn’t believe the same way as you? So what! As long as they’re not trying to force you to follow their belief or kill them, what should you care?
I don’t get the homosexuality one. Some people act like they’re gonna catch it or something. It’s not like there are two dudes banging away on your lawn either. It makes me mad that some people are so intolerant or grossed out by it. I get not wanting to see them have sex - but hey I don’t want to see you and your wife or husband doin it either. I didn’t wake up one day and realize “Hey I’m a chick and I think I am going to be sexually attracted to men.” It seems to be based somewhat on biology so it’s not like people are gay because they want to be. Being gay is not gross, it’s not wrong, it’s not weird. But people still get so worked up over it. Why do you care what two people do in their bedroom? I don’t freak out over what you do, why are you freaking out over what my friends do? What they do has absolutely nothing to do with you.
Concern over what people are or are not doing in their bedrooms.
Worship. I don’t get why anyone would worship anything. The whole idea makes my skin crawl.
Patriotism, at least of anything stronger than the “I’d better protect where I live” variety.
Watching sports, and caring which team wins as well. I understand why people would enjoy playing sports; but just watching ? And why care which team wins ?
The attraction of stripping/strippers, at least in situations where you can neither masturbate nor have sex during or right after. I’m not into frustration, and I’m especially not into paying for frustration. Now watching your wife/girlfriend strip and having sex with her, or a prostitute; that makes sense to me.
The hatred certain men ( and most preadolescent boys ) have towards women.
And related to that, the belief that men are, as a group, innately better than women. I’ve known some pretty pathetic examples of masculinity.
Louis C.K. is great. I don’t understand the fuss about gay marriage either.
Nudity - Like Janet Jackson’s boob on TV. It won’t corrupt the moral innocence of our children or whatever. Now get over it.
Curse words - What’s the big deal if someone curses?
Grammar or punctuation mistakes on an online message board - Message boards are places for recreational writing, so what if someone makes a mistake? Its not like we are all professional writers
I do enjoy watching sports, and I have my teams that I root for (I’m female, FWIW), but one thing I cannot understand is rivalries, or more specifically, the bitter hatred that people on either side of a major rivalry have for each other.
For example, I once mentioned off-hand to a friend of mine, who is a die-hard Red Sox fan, that a certain member of said team - Coco Crisp - had a name that I found to be somewhat humorous. But of course, he took my quip as an irrational assault typical of a Yankees fan (I happen to like the Yankees, but hold no ill will towards the Red Sox…whoever wins wins, no big deal). Of course, I’d be making “Coco Crispies” jokes no matter what team he played for, but it’s as if I carry the mark of the beast for daring to offend a player who happens to play in Boston, as a fan of a team that happens to play in The Bronx.
Similarly, I’ve never been able to understand the sheer magnitude of the vitriol between UNC and Duke fans - and I was born and raised a Tarheels fan. I mean, I root for UNC of course, but if Duke wins, no big deal. UNC might win the next game, right? During the whole Hansbrough vs. Henderson hard foul situation last season, I was wishing the whole time that both sides would shut the hell up and get over themselves. Neither team profited from the situation, so why devote precious energy and breath arguing about it? Rivalries are fine. but when people start losing perspective and going about their fanship in a hyperbolic fashion, it gets very annoying.
Most of them, really. Sure, I have opinions about things, but there’s not a lot that I’d find Pit-worthy, and I can usually see the other side’s reasoning, even if I don’t agree with it.
Life is too short for most of the isms and phobias. So you’re a midget gay pagan? I don’t give a shit. Can you do the job? Are you the best candidate? I’ll hire you. Are you a shitty candidate? I’ll show you the door, and hire the straight, bible-thumping white guy. All in all, I simply don’t care about most of that stuff.
I don’t get the obsession people in the suburbs have about neighbors parking in front of their houses. My parents crap themselves in outrage when the neighbor across the street parks in front of our house even though they have a driveway for their cars. Why in the world does this matter to anyone?
•People getting bent out of shape/obsessing over their “identity,” or trying to find a sense of it, or “define themselves.”
•And…I’d say adhering to ancient religious rituals or practices to the point of tortured rationalizing to get by in the modern world (I mean, lighting a candle or killing a goat or something, I can understand…but, say, inventing a computerized stove that runs itself during holy days so you can use it, without actually turning it on or off? Uh…yeah…), but the fact is, as an Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder sufferer, I guess I actually can understand the attention to rituals (and trying to work with and around them) to a depressing degree.
The way people get so worked up about how other people dress. Especially if the people being “tsk”-ed at are teens.
I’ve been in a situation a few times when I was out with my friends (all in our mid-20s) and they went on tirades about kids who low-ride their jeans. So what? It has no bearing on your life whatsoever.
You think that’s bad, I knew someone who was hit by a car, and while the paramedics were cutting their clothes off, one of the paramedics was saying to the other one, “I can’t believe her mother let her go out of the house like that.”
There’s something I totally don’t understand that makes a lot of otherwise sane people go batshit crazy: squirrels. They’re cute and fluffy, but let’s face it, their brains are about the size of a marble. Some people think they’re evil incarnate for doing what animals do - get food wherever they can. They don’t know that the food was put out for birds! How could they? Of course they’ll try harder to get food if you make it “harder” to get, they can still smell it and it’s still easier than looking for food in the woods.
Me, I put out a lot of food and everyone gets feed. It’s also funny watching a stand-off between the squirrels and the bluejays.
This is kind of a small, single issue example. But when the Unabomber was captured, it was disclosed that his brother David Kaczynski had tipped the FBI off to the similarity of his brother Ted’s writings to the Unabomber’s published manifesto.
I had several friends who thought it was a terrible betrayal that David had turned his brother in. Myself, I can’t think of a reason why family loyalty should override the need to prevent pre-meditated murder of innocents. If I thought a family member was guilty of serial murder (even if he wasn’t fixing to kill more), I hope that I’d have the courage to make the heart-wrenching decision that David Kaczynski did.
Another ‘outrage’ I don’t understand: people who think it’s disloyal to buy foreign cars.
Foreign ownership of American companies (and vicey versey), foreign factories in the US, and imports with US nameplates have muddled the distinction between foreign and domestic manufacture. A friend of mine once contended that because his car was a Ford, all of his money had gone to Americans. I laughed out loud, and told him that all he could really be sure of was that some of his money had gone to someone named Ford.
Homosexuality. The way some fundamentalists talk, you’d think two guys (or gals) being in a relationship is worse than mass murder.
The idea that women can do more for society than cook and pump out babies. Heck, I’ve encountered people who get upset when I mention that I’ve done some sort of repair or home improvement on my own.
So many pet owners seem to be mental cases. First off, they treat their pets better than their own children. And I am *not * exaggerating here. And if you treat *your * pet in a different manner than *their * pet, you’ll get a stern lecture how you are being abusive.
Case in point: we have an outdoor-only cat. When we have visitors, some of them are aghast that poor Tigger is not allowed in the house. We are “cruel and mean” for not letting him inside. By the looks on their faces, you’d think we slaughtered babies for fun.
Marijuna. It’s fine for people to smoke cigarettes until their lungs turn black, or to crash their car when they’re drunk, but anyone who dares to smoke weed in the privacy of their own home is worse than Satan. :rolleyes:
