Are any of these “unpopular opinions?” I’d venture to guess that a very good many of us here would agree with everything you said!
Abortion should be legal for women (of sound mind) in all cases. Everyone has or should have the right to expel anything or anyone from their bodies, for any reason.
Life is probably common in the universe, but I think there’s a good chance that very complex life is not, and intelligent life may be almost entirely absent (besides us).
One’s political views have no actual bearing on their personal character; being conservative or liberal has zero bearing on whether one is a good person or not.
If you’ve been overweight most of your life, there’s not much you can do about it. Eating less calories will work, there’s just actually very little chance you’ll be able to eat less calories consistently for the rest of your life.
Whether or not humans have contributed to global warming (and we probably have), there’s not much we can do about it now.
Death intrigues me; it really seems like some great mystery that we’ll all have a chance to solve. I want to live a long life, but part of me is very interested in learning what happens when we die. I suspect that it’s not just nothing.
Hello, long time lurker here. Here it goes:
I don’t like dogs. I think feminism is a bad thing. I think massive numbers of women entering the work field was not a good thing. I don’t care about having a career. I hate the word “career”. I would rather wear a burka and be the “oppressed” wife of a Muslim than being a western career woman. I think one’s 20’s are not for “finding yourself” and “experimenting”. I think women secretly want to be housewives. I secretly pity never married 30-something women. I love titanic. I dislike gay pride. I think Vladimir Putin is the hottest man on the planet, J K Simmons being a close second. I love love love Russian’s legislation towards gay “propaganda”. And many many more…
Apparently, my opinion that restaurants should let me use their bathroom even if I don’t buy anything there, is an unpopular opinion.
Trinopus - Oh, sure, glad to clarify. (Don’t think that we should confine the discussion to HERE, inasmuch as I highly doubt we’re highly representative of anything, but whatever.)
Video games: Trust me, NO ONE is supporting me on bringing back useful rapid fire or unbalanced fighting games. I find Otomedius cripplingly difficult (I get killed pretty much constantly from level 4 upward), whereas every thing I’ve read about the difficulty says it’s way too easy. I’d be lucky to hit the 10th percentile in something like Super Street Fighter 4.
AC3: If someone is with me on any of these points, I’m unaware of it. ESPECIALLY the part about Connor, who’s become the Jar Jar Binks of AC.
Beavis and Butthead: You haven’t been here very long, have you? 
Well, to sum up: everything I’ve ever read about this ridiculous show has fallen into one of three camps: 1. It’s brilliant and great wonderful satire and dead-on, 2. you, you gotta feel it, you gotta dig it, you know, or 3. it’s the work of the devil and turning our kids into maniacs. Not once has “it just isn’t any good” ever been offered up.
AGT: I’ve heard arguments that the military gets too much of a free pass, there’s way too much sap and glurge, a lot of the acts just aren’t that compelling, and most of the kiddie acts are creepshow (and I agree with all of these), but never that the show is just really shoddily put together. It just has the look and feel of an amateurish Gong Show knockoff. I find it difficult to care much about biased judging or lolicon when the camera cuts to a goddam reaction shot every five seconds.
Officiating mistakes never being allowed to be corrected: Every time a World Series turns on a horrible miscall, or a pitcher is unjustly denied a perfect game, or a team wins a national title after getting an extra down it shouldn’t have, or a Super Bowl is flat-out rigged, or a gymnastics all-around is allowed to go in the books with an incorrectly-set vaulting horse, and do not get me started on the unholy mess that is golf, you can count on a tidal wave of “nobody’s perfect” and “referees have a hard job” and “bad calls are part of the game” etc. Never the slightest indication that this could be a bad thing. Never any remorse. Never any reflection. Especially here.
Blockbuster Video: The consensus, from what I can gather, is that it’s a badly-run behemoth that’s outlived its usefulness, and who the hell cares when we have Netflix. That is, other than the holdouts still resentful that it crushed all the indie video stores. I haven’t run into anyone who thinks it’s at all regrettable that it went (or Suncoast Pictures, for that matter).
Will not expound further on breasts. I’m sure you’re relieved.
Life insurance is a scam. If I die, who cares who gets what…I’m DEAD!
Well, I’ve been here a little while… And, jeepers, that’s the viewpoint I hold, and everyone I’ve ever talked to holds. Beavis and Butthead: boring, unfunny, badly written, badly drawn. I’ve never met anyone who admires it. Maybe I just hang out with the right kind of people!
re unpopular opinions, probably everybody has one. A friend of mine coined a law: “Everybody doesn’t like something good.” There are people who don’t like chocolate. There are people who don’t like Disneyland. There are people who don’t like Beethoven. Any given person, were his tastes examined in sufficient depth, would eventually betray a disliking for something that the world would overwhelmingly hold to be good.
(I don’t like rock & roll music. How’s that for an unpopular opinion?)
I agree with this. Which is why it baffles me that the movie (Beavis and Butthead Do America) is so great. I cannot stand the show, but I’ve seen the movie three times.
I think ALL insurance is a scam.
Not if service plans count. We have a service plan for our washer and dryer, and I’m certain the company has lost money on us. 
Well, as long as there’s enough money to bury you or whatever your final wishes are. Funerals aren’t cheap.
I think Yahoo Mail is way better than Gmail.
I think George Lucas is a creative genius and I like the Star Wars prequel trilogy.
I like the Matrix sequels too.
I think John Carpenter’s The Thing remake is idiotic.
I think Sherlock Holmes is a ridiculous character who, if he actually existed, couldn’t solve a 7-Eleven robbery and wouldn’t be tolerated by the cops for a moment.
I think most public and institutional buildings (schools, the YMCA, theaters, libraries, etc.) are okay the way they are. I don’t understand the constant urgency to demolish and replace them, unless they just need more space.
Public building worker here… the urgency to knock them down and replace them is because many were built in the 50s and the 60s on the cheap. So in the last decade, the ones that haven’t been replaced are quite literally falling apart.
But…I’m dead. Who cares what you do with me.
Don’t you see it?? People pay these companies tons of money for a service they will never see.
I understand auto insurance; accident happens, it gets fixed. Home insurance, same deal. But life insurance only pays when you’re dead and when you’re dead you’re not worrying about ANYTHING. The funeral isn’t for you, it’s for your family. Let them figure out what they want to do with you.
I’ve had this argument many times and I’ve yet to gain a single supporter 
I love M. Night Shyamalan movies. Yes, really.
Putting children in lab goggles and doing “ooh cool” scientific so-called experiments doesn’t foster an interest in science, it fosters an interest in watching cool tricks.
Crafts and decorating and recreational baking are not housekeeping. They are playing house. They’re a lot of fun, but they are playing house.
Do you remember the name of the documentary?
And many of them do not meet current building codes, especially regarding handicapped accessibility.
If I die soon, while I still am supporting a family, life insurance will help them keep the house and survive. I’m willing to pay for that. When the kids are grown, I’ll probably let the policies lapse. I have several million in life insurance. I don’t care about a funeral, but I’d like my family to be secure. When I’m dead I won’t care, but I’m alive now and do care about them.
Aren’t some life insurance policies (or least least, did they used to be) designed as a sort of retirement plan- that after a certain age you were allowed to take a cash settlement?
This is the counter argument I always get. I guess one day when/if I have a family I’ll switch sides.