# Strange prejudices you have **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [February 14, 2011, 2:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296 "2011-02-14T14:04:12Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 8
**Author:** ![TruCelt](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trucelt/32/523_2.png) [@TruCelt](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TruCelt)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/141 "2011-02-15T16:44:37Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I am occasionally guilty of this, because I have a British friend I chat with online a lot, and sometimes I find Britishisms sneaking into my speech. I try to stamp them out whenever possible, though. (“Stamp them out” isn’t one, is it? Crap.) > > I just noticed another one of mine this morning. (Er, another irrational prejudice. Not another Britishism.) I am suspicious of people named Wayne. No good reason for it. I just am. It’s actually Wayne as middle name you need to watch out for. . . [http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html](http://www.newsoftheweird.com/wayne.html) ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/142 "2011-02-15T16:45:41Z")
> [@Onomatopoeia](#): > > - Black Republicans / Gay Republicans - Why anyone would voluntarily be a member of an organization that actively and constantly campaigns against their interests, besides self-hatred that is, is beyond me. I actually know a few gay republicans; they’re basically socially liberal and fiscally conservative but would never call themselves libertarians. Makes sense to me, plus they realize it’s in the hands of the courts and in 5 years (and probably much sooner) it’s gonna be legal to get hitched anyways. They’re not out and about joining the John Birch society, of course. Although if you’re saying it’s a “strange” prejudice (some of these in the thread are not) then carry on :p. ---
**Author:** ![Sattua](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sattua/32/11906_2.png) [@Sattua](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sattua)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/143 "2011-02-15T16:55:54Z")
I don’t understand people who tolerate businesses/offices/corporations and all that bullshit. I don’t understand what kind of smoking shell of a human soul you have to have, to want to be in an office, to want to be in management or marketing, to want to take business trips, to use corporate techno-babble and kiss clients’ asses and write “user scenarios” etc etc etc for all of the terrifically boring things that most businesses do. I guess I’m glad there are people who do it, I just think that the ones who enjoy it aren’t real, functioning human beings inside. ---
**Author:** ![Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/848f3c/32.png) [@Fuzzy\_Dunlop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fuzzy_Dunlop)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 4:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/144 "2011-02-15T16:57:25Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > I’m not going to be a whiny cry baby over an opinion. I respectfully disagree… ---
**Author:** ![StusBlues](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dc4da7/32.png) [@StusBlues](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StusBlues)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/145 "2011-02-15T17:22:00Z")
Gay Republicans, I can see. Gay Evangelical Christians, I have a problem with. Why give money to an organization that actively fights against your rights? But perhaps that’s too rational for this thread. ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/146 "2011-02-15T17:27:26Z")
> [@Inner\_Stickler](#): > > I am irrationally prejudiced against peas. All we are saying, is give peas a chance! ---
**Author:** ![Sunspace](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sunspace/32/1250_2.png) [@Sunspace](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sunspace)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/147 "2011-02-15T17:37:11Z")
> [@salinqmind](#): > > OK. People who drink Pepsi, period, diet or not. Even Pepsi Throwback? 🙂 I never really thought about it before, but I think I have a prejudice against Coca-Cola. I think of it as the lower-class jingoistic cola. This is probably due to cross-border slopover of US advertising that puts it in the ‘patriotic’ category. Pepsi, to me, ‘feels’ more mature and intelligent. Doesn’t mean I won’t drink Coca-Cola, but I’ll choose Pepsi over it if there’s a choice. > [@Mops](#): > > That fits in with one of _my_ strange prejudices: that anyone who does not subscribe to at least one quality daily newspaper, commits slow intellectual suicide. What if you just buy them at the store each day? 🙂 > [@Mr Bus Guy](#): > > In my entire pre-marriage life, I dated exactly one girl that smoked. And her only once. > > Doesn’t matter who it might be, supermodel, actress, cute girl at the bar… If I know she smokes she’s completely off my radar. :: nods :: I will not date a smoker. Period. Don’t care if she’s rich, gorgeous, and willing. > [@lindsaybluth](#): > > Also, people under 35 who smoke. For a good 20-25 years we’ve known smoking is pretty horrible. There’s no reason you should be doing it, other than the fact you’re white trash or trying to be “rebellious”. I give people a pass if they grew up in a place where no-one knew any better, but if you grew up here where the anti-smoking campaign has been going on for generations… no. Now, this is a rational predjudice in some ways, but it’s also an irrational prejudice, because everytime I see a smoker, my first impression of their intelligence goes down significantly, and their gullibility goes up significantly. As I grew up, I learned about the nature of addiction, and I remembered that my mother, who smoked, was very smart and socially adept, etc, and I know a lot of smokers who are smart and at the top of the game, but my prejudice remains. On the other hand, I don’t have the same prejudice against pot smokers. I still don;t like it, and probably still wouldn’t date one, but I don’t have the prejudice against it. On the third hand, I support e-cigs. Get your nicotine without the crap. > [@Duckster](#): > > Anyone older than the age of two who wears pajamas in public, as in anytime outside of your home, apartment or hovel. People do this? I have never seen this. Of course, if you tried to do that here, you’d freeze to death (winter) or get eaten by bugs (summer). > [@campp](#): > > …once the crazy talk starts, I just automatically put them into the category of “totally confused and easily manipulated”. Yep. Gullibility index = 9/10. Prime sheeple material. > [@Kyla](#): > > I tend to thing religious people are kind of dumb. It’s strange because I actually know quite a few religious people who are in no way dumb and are very thoughtful and introspective about their faith. It doesn’t take a lot for me to make that mental adjustment from “dumb and religious” to “smart and religious”, but it is a prejudice I have. Again, I’ve learned about the nature of religious belief, and that it’s not necessarily incompatible with science and the physical world, but dammit, it’s like too many people put their brains on ‘coast’ and let others push them around. > [@Icarus](#): > > People who carry small dogs around as fashion accessories. That’s just cruelty to animals. Any time I see one in a mall or airport, the look on the dogs face is always, “God, I have to pee!” Not an irrational prejudice at all. The concept of the purse dog is an abomination. Lessee… other prejudices. People in heavy makeup. I keep thinking, what (or who) are they trying to hide? ---
**Author:** ![BaconAndEggs](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/f4b2a3/32.png) [@BaconAndEggs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BaconAndEggs)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/148 "2011-02-15T17:39:51Z")
Anyone who goes to a Starbucks…etc. to go on their laptop to work or study. You look pretentious, and stupid. I could never get any work done, if I did this. Why not just do this at home? Is home that chaotic or bad that you can’t? If someone smokes around me I think they are disgusting, and hope they enjoy their early death. Bluetooth headsets, ugh! ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/149 "2011-02-15T17:40:01Z")
I’m not really seeing many examples of “strange” prejudices so much as your regular, garden variety prejudice with a liberal helping of snobbery. Not that I don’t harbor some of the same myself, but airing one’s racism and elitism doesn’t make for a very entertaining thread now does it? The thing is, it’s hard to come up with a “strange” prejudice because they’re all really rooted in the same place. One that I’ve admitted to in another thread is the utterly irrational contempt I have when I see a car backed into a parking space. It’s pretty rare that I even \*see \*the owner of the car but I automatically think “what a douche”. ---
**Author:** ![lindsaybluth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/90db22/32.png) [@lindsaybluth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lindsaybluth)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 5:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/150 "2011-02-15T17:42:33Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > I give people a pass if they grew up in a place where no-one knew any better, but if you grew up here where the anti-smoking campaign has been going on for generations… no. Actually yes, that was one stipulation I forgot! My SO’s best friend is an American but his parents did D w/o B and missionary type work from the time he was a toddler until high school so he wasn’t raised with any of the North American anti-smoking campaigning. He’s a smoker trying desperately to quit right now. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/151 "2011-02-15T18:06:48Z")
> [@Ludy](#): > > Hey now in Canada we spell it theatre and while I’m at it, the proper spelling is neighbour dammit 😉 Oh and don’t get me started on colour. > > In school, if I left out the u’s on a spelling test I would have gotten them wrong. That’s my story and I’m sticking to it. [![](https://i.ytimg.com/vi/C_TfBbR6L0M/hqdefault.jpg?sqp=-oaymwEmCOADEOgC8quKqQMa8AEB-AH-BIAC4AOKAgwIABABGFAgWihlMA8=&rs=AOn4CLChh8cD6zrFeH1wdhnfuLopcAidBg ""Weird Al" Yankovic - Canadian Idiot") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C_TfBbR6L0M) ---
**Author:** ![araminty](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/b5e925/32.png) [@araminty](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/araminty)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/152 "2011-02-15T18:08:47Z")
> [@MsWhatsit](#): > > I am suspicious of people named Wayne. No good reason for it. I just am. To expound on this, the ones I really look out for are the Dwaynes/Duanes. What mother looks at a little baby boy and thinks, “You know, Wayne’s just not enough.” ---
**Author:** ![Alice\_The\_Goon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ed8c4c/32.png) [@Alice\_The\_Goon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alice_The_Goon)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/153 "2011-02-15T18:08:57Z")
> [@Sunspace](#): > > Even Pepsi Throwback? :)I never really thought about it before, but I think I have a prejudice against Coca-Cola. I think of it as the lower-class jingoistic cola. This is probably due to cross-border slopover of US advertising that puts it in the ‘patriotic’ category. Pepsi, to me, ‘feels’ more mature and intelligent. > > Doesn’t mean I won’t drink Coca-Cola, but I’ll choose Pepsi over it if there’s a choice. Now I know for sure that there is no chance for us, ever. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/154 "2011-02-15T18:12:03Z")
> [@Leaffan](#): > > Any adult who orders a soft drink at a restaurant (at supper, during non-work hours) automatically goes to the bottom of my list. Pop is for kiddies. Funny, I’m the opposite. Any time I see an adult with children at a restaurant ordering any alcohol, I think they’re an unfit parent. ---
**Author:** ![Procrustus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/procrustus/32/2994_2.png) [@Procrustus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Procrustus)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/155 "2011-02-15T18:14:39Z")
> [@Trubie](#): > > If a place wants to call itself a college and not take SAT/ACT scores, it’s not a real school. There are places called dogs schools. Are they not “real” schools? 😛 You’ve mentioned this twice. Lots of “real” colleges don’t require such b.s. tests. Here’s a [list](http://www.fairtest.org/university/optional). Some may be familiar to you as “real.” A few that jumped out at me as not being “dog schools.”. But there are dozens and dozens of others: American University, Bowdoin College, Bryn Mawr, Burlington, Eastman School of Music (U of R), Kansas State University, New York University, Sarah Lawrence, Saint John’s College (MD), University of Alaska, University of Arizona, University of Mississippi, Nebraska, UNLV, Oregon, Washington State, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, etc. As I recall, the best predictor of college performance is past performance, not test scores. ---
**Author:** ![PandaBear77](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/edb3f5/32.png) [@PandaBear77](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PandaBear77)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/156 "2011-02-15T18:28:53Z")
If I see you walking around a store with a blue tooth device in your ear, I think you’re a lemming and extremely insecure. If you’re a parent and have named your child something stupid, I can’t hang with you. Not only are you a moron, you’re cruel. I think people who are prejudiced against fat people are immature, hateful and stupid. It’s one thing to think that being overweight is a health risk, or not find someone overweight attractive – it’s quite another to actually make fun of someone because of their weight, or assume they have some kind of character flaw. If you’re in the latter category, you’re a bad person in my book. ---
**Author:** ![WOOKINPANUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wookinpanub/32/132_2.png) [@WOOKINPANUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/WOOKINPANUB)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/157 "2011-02-15T18:34:36Z")
Another strange one for me; people who order salad as their main meal. Being super picky myself believe me I honestly don’t give a damn what other people eat. Why should I? Yet, I get internally annoyed when I go out and my companion orders a salad. ---
**Author:** ![BwanaBob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bwanabob/32/2985_2.png) [@BwanaBob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BwanaBob)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/158 "2011-02-15T18:35:33Z")
I have a dismissive attitude towards people who exhibit no intellectual curiousity. Stuff like, why bother going into space? Why explore? Why study nature? I also think less of people who have no knowledge of world geography. How can you not be able to locate your own country on a globe? Or not know where Asia is? You are intellectual pond scum. ---
**Author:** ![Gary\_Robson](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gary_robson/32/3448_2.png) [@Gary\_Robson](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gary_Robson)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/159 "2011-02-15T18:41:28Z")
I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who make character judgments based on other people’s fashion choices. Irrationally enough, given my previous statement, I automatically think less of any male (or any female over the age of 15) who wears pajama bottoms in public. I’m irrationally prejudiced against liberals who hate all conservatives and conservatives who hate all liberals. For that matter, I think anyone who doesn’t disagree with their political party on at least one issue has no ability to think for themselves. I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who care what anyone else eats or drinks. If you go off on a rant against vegetarians, or people who cook their steak rare, or people who drink Pepsi, or people who done like broccoli, I automatically think less of you. I’m irrationally prejudiced against people who live in a small community in financial tough times, but drive to some other community to do their shopping (especially if they shop at Wal\*Mart). Sheesh, people, if you don’t want to support the community you live in, why do you live there? > [@mike\_ahndembroak](#): > > People with horses, why is it whenever someone starts to make good money the first thing they buy is a horse. It’s 2011 we have cars and highways. and worse yet are those that don’t have room for them so board them at some stable on the other side of town, whats the point behind that? Call me when you can round up the cows or compete in a team penning event using a Prius. > [@Trubie](#): > > People are getting too PC. You know the quality of community college and real schools aren’t the same. If a place wants to call itself a college and not take SAT/ACT scores, it’s not a real school. I remember an amusing discussion I had when I was attending a community college (we called 'em “junior colleges” then) and my buddy was attending Stanford. He got into a class taught by the guy who wrote the textbook we were both using, and crowed about it for weeks. Turned out I was taught by a full professor with actual work experience in the field in a class of 30 students. He was taught by a grad student (the textbook author showed up to class TWICE in the whole semester) in a class of 300 students. Who do you think got more out of the class? > [@WOOKINPANUB](#): > > One that I’ve admitted to in another thread is the utterly irrational contempt I have when I see a car backed into a parking space. It’s pretty rare that I even \*see \*the owner of the car but I automatically think “what a douche”. Interesting. I think the opposite. Especially when I’m waiting for that space. The driver who backed in can just pull straight out and go, while the one who pulled straight in slowly backs out (often back and forth, especially in larger vehicles). ---
**Author:** ![Asimovian](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/asimovian/32/172_2.png) [@Asimovian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Asimovian)\ **Post date:** [February 15, 2011, 6:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296/160 "2011-02-15T18:52:17Z")
> [@Bam\_Boo\_Gut](#): > > I’m wary of people who don’t like chocolate. It’s sinister \ I am, admittedly, left-handed. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=7) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/strange-prejudices-you-have/571296.md?page=9)