# Unpopular opinions **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 24, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780 "2016-07-24T15:58:21Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Hbk4894](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/e68b1a/32.png) [@Hbk4894](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hbk4894)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/1 "2016-07-24T15:58:21Z")
Big bang theory was better than friends What are your unpopular opinions? ---
**Author:** ![Quimby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/22d042/32.png) [@Quimby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quimby)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 4:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/2 "2016-07-24T16:24:20Z")
This will probably get moved to Cafe Society since it will be mostly pop culture but here’s my recent one: I liked Batman v Superman. ---
**Author:** ![Knorf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/58956e/32.png) [@Knorf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Knorf)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/3 "2016-07-24T17:11:39Z")
Most commercial music, 99% at least, including popular music and film music, will be of absolutely no lasting value to the world. It is shallow, vapid crap for the most part and will rightly be heaped into history’s dustbin. ---
**Author:** ![rsat3acr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/a3d4f5/32.png) [@rsat3acr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/rsat3acr)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/4 "2016-07-24T17:15:46Z")
> [@Hbk4894](#): > > Big bang theory was better than friends > > What are your unpopular opinions? you ask about opinions but state facts. I agree.😃 ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/5 "2016-07-24T17:18:40Z")
My unpopular opinion? The idea that its actually OKAY to have an unpopular opinion. The very notion either give most people these days the vapors, has them frothing at the mouth typing on the internet, or gathering torches and pitchforks. ---
**Author:** ![panache45](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/panache45/32/64_2.png) [@panache45](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/panache45)\ **Post date:** [July 24, 2016, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/6 "2016-07-24T23:10:09Z")
> [@Hbk4894](#): > > Big bang theory was better than friends That’s your idea of an unpopular opinion? ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 12:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/7 "2016-07-25T00:14:02Z")
> [@Hbk4894](#): > > Big bang theory was better than friends… > [@panache45](#): > > That’s your idea of an unpopular opinion? So far it’s 3:0 in favor of BBT. And the opinion that it’s an unpopular opinion is an unpopular opinion, so far 2:1 against. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 12:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/8 "2016-07-25T00:20:40Z")
Oops, I missed **rsat3acr**. Make that 4:0 and 3:1 respectively. ---
**Author:** ![OldGuy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/3bc359/32.png) [@OldGuy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/OldGuy)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 12:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/9 "2016-07-25T00:45:26Z")
That one needs to be connected to the internet every waking moment and smart phones are a boon to mankind. ---
**Author:** ![KellyCriterion](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/b3f665/32.png) [@KellyCriterion](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KellyCriterion)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/10 "2016-07-25T00:48:05Z")
Pretty much every little thing we do, including things we do when completely alone and no one can see us, **does** have an impact on the society we live in, and by extension, the world at large. ---
**Author:** ![TheChileanBlob](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thechileanblob/32/435_2.png) [@TheChileanBlob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheChileanBlob)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 12:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/11 "2016-07-25T00:57:36Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > That one needs to be connected to the internet every waking moment and smart phones are a boon to mankind. Username/post. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![TipTapTwo](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/34f0e0/32.png) [@TipTapTwo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TipTapTwo)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/12 "2016-07-25T01:03:34Z")
The Something Awful forums are better than The Straight Dope message board. ---
**Author:** ![Riemann](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/riemann/32/3133_2.png) [@Riemann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Riemann)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/13 "2016-07-25T01:09:17Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > That one needs to be connected to the internet every waking moment and smart phones are a boon to mankind. That young people should be allowed to roam freely across lawns. ---
**Author:** ![Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mean_mr.mustard/32/3865_2.png) [@Mean\_Mr.Mustard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mean_Mr.Mustard)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/14 "2016-07-25T01:20:38Z")
> [@OldGuy](#): > > That one needs to be connected to the internet every waking moment and smart phones are a boon to mankind. > [@Riemann](#): > > That young people should be allowed to roam freely across lawns. That rock and roll music will catch on. mmm ---
**Author:** ![billfish678](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/7bcc69/32.png) [@billfish678](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/billfish678)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/15 "2016-07-25T01:21:38Z")
> [@TipTapTwo](#): > > The Something Awful forums are better than The Straight Dope message board. Mainly because they are yanking your chain with blatantly false moniker 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Two\_Many\_Cats](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/8dc957/32.png) [@Two\_Many\_Cats](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Two_Many_Cats)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 1:28am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/16 "2016-07-25T01:28:02Z")
I suppose my most unpopular opinion would be that while I agree that abortion should remain legal, actually having one is, in most circumstances, a selfish act and deeply wrong. ---
**Author:** ![jtur88](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e9c0ed/32.png) [@jtur88](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jtur88)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/17 "2016-07-25T05:07:13Z")
That members of the armed forces are neither risking their lives nor defending our freedom. ---
**Author:** ![Garula](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/ea666f/32.png) [@Garula](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Garula)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 5:43am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/18 "2016-07-25T05:43:16Z")
That as much as reasonably possible you should give people the benefit of the doubt and start from the presumption they’ve arrived at their opinions honestly and in good faith. When someone voices a subjective opinion, lobbing an unfalsifiable accusation of bigotry at them poisons the discussion and sets back the advancement of progressive values. Obviously there are times when it’s okay to make judgments (I’m not going to bother to engage in a discussion of civil rights with someone in a white hood), but I’m saddened by how easy it is for many of my peers to throw off statements along the lines of “the only reason you hold that subjective opinion is because you’re sexist/racist/homophobic/bigoted.” ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 5:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/19 "2016-07-25T05:44:07Z")
Dogs are better than cats. 😃 dnr. ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 25, 2016, 6:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780/20 "2016-07-25T06:16:42Z")
Ridley Scott is overrated. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unpopular-opinions/760780.md?page=2)