Unpopular Opinions V5: "I still don't like Half Life 2." - General

[QUOTE=Qaus;49451984]people shouldn't say that feminism got hijacked because it didn't. it's a word to describe something and if radicals misuse it then it's more an expression of stupidity than 'tainting' a word. if people can't see that feminism = egalitarianism (with a focus on gender issues) then they're just about as stupid as the people that abuse the word imo. [editline]4th January 2016[/editline] in fact i wouldn't even use the term "radical feminist" because that implies these crazies are feminists, call them "female supremacists" or something else that immediately implies something negative.[/QUOTE] Even if we do that, the biggest problem still stands; they'll still call themselves feminists. that's the part that [I]really[/I] fucks people up with the term, and in all honesty I'm starting to think that they'll never stop.

I'd be better in the background instead of being put in the mud on a front, I could develop some software and other technology that could turn the tides of war. I wonder how people with autism are treated if the need for conscription returns. How could anyone like me possibly contribute to the war with a gun in my hands?

[QUOTE=Rangergxi;49451818]Some random guy or a Republican party leader such as Trump or the RPC head? Even then, the Republican party is an organization, not an ideology/movement. If the most respected members within a movement and the intelligentsia that define the movement are insane than the movement is rotten. To a large extent it has become a hatred of men. [/QUOTE] And you call them the most respected based on what [editline]4th January 2016[/editline] also want to point out that you're very clearly contradicting yourself "With organized parties like the Republicans you have to look at the leaders, unlike with de-centralized movements/ideologies where the ones you really have to look for are the leaders"

I feel the internet is to blame for these stupid "identities" (eg.. cisgender (IT DIDN'T NEED A 'SPECIAL' NAME), owlkin, etc...) since if it wasn't for a community of people who want a special snowflake status to broadcast to other people to feel independant and different, it would all be ok and people wouldn't be all sensitive about being called like he/she/they etc.... The reason i feel the internet is to blame is because its a lot less likely that these people would have done anything with their special snowflake terms if they didn't have anybody to rally up these feelings with. I suppose im not directly blaming THE INTERNET for it. but it was a tool that was used for these people to poison it.

even if the internet didn't exist such nutters would still be out there, it's just that the internet provides a far easier method of communication

[QUOTE=Recurracy;49452321]even if the internet didn't exist such nutters would still be out there, it's just that the internet provides a far easier method of communication[/QUOTE] Thats exactly what i mean. Sorry i didn't explain myself very well. It would be a lot harder for username: genderfluidshe37xo and activist_wolfkin_malequeer to communicate and taint the internet with their stupid terms only to lead other idiots to believe their idiotic views.

[QUOTE=greeley;49452314]I feel the internet is to blame for these stupid "identities" (eg.. cisgender (IT DIDN'T NEED A 'SPECIAL' NAME), owlkin, etc...) since if it wasn't for a community of people who want a special snowflake status to broadcast to other people to feel independant and different, it would all be ok and people wouldn't be all sensitive about being called like he/she/they etc.... The reason i feel the internet is to blame is because its a lot less likely that these people would have done anything with their special snowflake terms if they didn't have anybody to rally up these feelings with. I suppose im not directly blaming THE INTERNET for it. but it was a tool that was used for these people to poison it.[/QUOTE] I think it's because lonely, mentally off teenagers/young adults find each-other easily on the internet and magnify and validate each-other's mental problems. Despite how much people talk about it, things like otherkin are very rare IRL, and even on the internet are still hard to run into randomly. Also imo cisgender isn't a bad term, it's the exact same as heterosexual/homosexual. They're both ancient roots used to describe things precisely. Sure, we could use normal but to many people that has a bad connotation. We wouldn't say "that person is gay, and the person next to him is normal" because to many people, that sounds kind of mean.

cisgender sounds bad because those rabid feminazis use it as an insult, they're the ones making you associate the term with negative feelings

It all comes down to sensitivity. You'll probably notice all these people with special statuses and identities are more sensitive than a bull in a mine field. You'll call them a "he/she" by accident and all of a sudden you have a full blown temper tantrum because they refer to the term "they"

[QUOTE=greeley;49452314]I feel the internet is to blame for these stupid "identities" (eg.. cisgender (IT DIDN'T NEED A 'SPECIAL' NAME[/QUOTE] Fucking lol it's not getting a special name, calm down

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49452689]Fucking lol it's not getting a special name, calm down[/QUOTE] please describe me a situation where "cisgender" is needed to be said. I would really like to know of a time when it is important to be "cisgendered". Because i honestly cannot think of any reason why it should matter apart from being said because somebody wants to feel special about being labeled something different. I'm not getting on at you at all about this, i legitimately would LOVE to know when its relevant?

Isn't cisgender used in gender studies?

the only context i can think of that cisgender provides any sense of relevance is in academical environments [editline]4th January 2016[/editline] afaik saying you're straight is almost the same as saying you're cisgendered so outside of very specific scenarios cisgendered is hardly relevant

[QUOTE=greeley;49452715]please describe me a situation where "cisgender" is needed to be said. I would really like to know of a time when it is important to be "cisgendered". Because i honestly cannot think of any reason why it should matter apart from being said because somebody wants to feel special about being labeled something different. I'm not getting on at you at all about this, i legitimately would LOVE to know when its relevant?[/QUOTE] It literally just means 'not transgendered'. I don't understand why people using it annoys you so much; it's the equivalent of 'heterosexual' when discussing gender rather than sexual orientation.

[QUOTE=Recurracy;49452763]the only context i can think of that cisgender provides any sense of relevance is in academical environments [editline]4th January 2016[/editline] afaik saying you're straight is almost the same as saying you're cisgendered so outside of very specific scenarios cisgendered is hardly relevant[/QUOTE] Thats my points. The only real reason its used outside of the slight relevance in academical environments is to label yourself as cisgendered for the fact of having some sort of special personality trait.

[QUOTE=CatFodder;49452785]It literally just means 'not transgendered'.[/QUOTE] oh so that's what it was, I get this weird occurence where my mind combines two slightly relevant subjects way too often

[QUOTE=CatFodder;49452785]It literally just means 'not transgendered'. I don't understand why people using it annoys you so much; it's the equivalent of 'heterosexual' when discussing gender rather than sexual orientation.[/QUOTE] But you gotta understand, them tumblrds!!!! I can't help but laugh when people whine and bitch about the word cisgender, it does literally no harm and is not derogatory, no matter how many times you pull up some backwater blog that has no real relevance.

best thing to do is just ignore those idiots don't even laugh at them, just pretend they don't even exist laughing at them gives them incentive to say 'see they don't recognize our genuine issues!!!! they're bad!!!'

[QUOTE=greeley;49452640]It all comes down to sensitivity. You'll probably notice all these people with special statuses and identities are more sensitive than a bull in a mine field. You'll call them a "he/she" by accident and all of a sudden you have a full blown temper tantrum because they refer to the term "they"[/QUOTE] Are you sure? In real life people are way more reasonable than that. An "oops, my bad" will clear it up with most. Especially because they've likely dealt with people who intentionally misgender them, a mistake isn't really anything

If you're under 20 years of age and you're trying to tell me you're the opposite gender i'm not going to take you seriously one single goddamn bit. On greeley and lurkers subject, my sister is transferring to male, and he's also dating a woman that's male to female (and my FtM brother is lesbo to the point of hating dick so idk how they're working that out). People in general in the "adult" lgbt scene won't kick up a massive fuss if you get their pronouns wrong. The only people i've seen pitching a huge fit over pronouns are tumblrinas who identify as some extravagant bullshit or extreme liberals. I was at my now brothers apartment with a few of my friends, one of them being an extreme liberal who would yell at me when I said nigga on black ops (we all kicked her to the curb after a while). One of my friends got my brothers pronoun wrong and he couldn't have given less of a shit but the liberal went on this massive tirade about how you have to respect transgenders and have to get their pronouns right. All my experiences are anecdotal and i'm sure there are adult transgendered people who will kick up a huge fuss if someone mis-labels them (and I live in a mega hipster neighborhood where we have a theater that plays indie movies exclusively and has live plays of rocky horror picture show) but i've also found that most people in general are pretty reasonable.

America's biggest mistake in the Vietnam War (besides getting involved at all) was not getting the People's Republic of China on our side. The PRC had already gone through a major ideological split with the Soviet Union, and had hostile attitudes towards Vietnam since both nation's inceptions thousands of years before. We should have cozied up to the Chinese, as they had no expansionist/spread the revolution ideals like the USSR did. Even though the PRC wouldn't have outright invaded or anything, they could have sealed off the borders in Vietnam or hounded gun runners/acted alongside us in the blockade.

[QUOTE=CatFodder;49452785]It literally just means 'not transgendered'. I don't understand why people using it annoys you so much; it's the equivalent of 'heterosexual' when discussing gender rather than sexual orientation.[/QUOTE] It doesn't annoy me at all, until someone decides to have a go at me for not using their terms they identify and i have to remember their abnormal needs because they want to be different. Its just about efficiency really. It makes things so much easier if people are just "he" and "she". Like im all for transgendered people, if they were a "he" and now want to be a "she" i will call them a "she" with no hesitation. But when you want to be considered "them/they/it/thy" or what not and then they get annoyed when you just say "he/she" it frustrates me a little because it is being fussy.

I don't know why I did because I fucking loved the gameplay of MGS5 to pieces. Maybe that was it. I tried pretty much everything I could and made it a long haul through the game. I beat like mission 32 and I couldn't get myself to continue the game, I even shelled for the collectors edition. It probably has to do with me already knowing the big twist of the real ending of the game and most of what happens in the final chapters, I guess I just didn't want to experience the writing of the game go even more downhill into mission 45 and feel the real phantom pain. (I know there are still some amazing missions I'm missing) but the consensus I've seen has been about the writing falling to more pieces throughout act 2. With not very much story related character development and things just not really closing the book of MGS on the best note. I know I'll get to the end eventually, I just never expected this from MGS5 from the years of waiting. I guess that's also partly my own fault for the expectation. TL;DR - I didn't think MGS5 would be the game that would just have a point where I was just able to drop the game and move on to the next without beating it. Considering how long I'd waited for it and been excited.

It's probably been said before, but VR is a really stupid gimmick. Immersion in a game should come from the quality of the content therein, not by strapping a screen to your face and forcing the immersion down a player's throat.

[QUOTE=AtomicWaffle;49453507]It's probably been said before, but VR is a really stupid gimmick. Immersion in a game should come from the quality of the content therein, not by strapping a screen to your face and forcing the immersion down a player's throat.[/QUOTE] I think you're kinda missing the point, have you ever tried VR?

[QUOTE=greeley;49453091]It doesn't annoy me at all, until someone decides to have a go at me for not using their terms they identify and i have to remember their abnormal needs because they want to be different. Its just about efficiency really. It makes things so much easier if people are just "he" and "she". Like im all for transgendered people, if they were a "he" and now want to be a "she" i will call them a "she" with no hesitation. But when you want to be considered "them/they/it/thy" or what not and then they get annoyed when you just say "he/she" it frustrates me a little because it is being fussy.[/QUOTE] Yeah fair enough, I get all that. I don't think 'cisgendered' really fits into that category though. Idk why anyone would use it to make themselves feel special since calling yourself 'cisgendered' is basically saying 'I'm the same as 99% of other people'.

Cisgender isn't a word to make you feel special and was just made to tidy up the phrase "someone who was born x gender and identifies as x gender." It's neither the people who made up the words fault or gender theorists (especially those who just study gender and not women's studies as well) fault that some attention seeker on tumblr unironically says "cis scum" without realizing the word is about as neutral of a term you can get. I really can't think of another word to make an analogy right now because cisgender is used more often as a medical/psychological/gendered term than someone seriously thinking it is an insult to lump someone into ~90% of the world's population.

down with cis 2016

I rather don't like Undertale.

[QUOTE=Zillamaster55;49453032]America's biggest mistake in the Vietnam War (besides getting involved at all) was not getting the People's Republic of China on our side.[/QUOTE] They wanted to spread communism in Asia. Kinda why they sent millions of men to Korea and aided Vietnam. Also, the Taiwan thing is -200 modifier. [QUOTE=Levithan;49453795]down with cis 2016[/QUOTE] That seems to be a popular phrase within the trans-community. Dunno if thats the fake trans or real trans crowd. Guess the opinion here will be "fake trans does it exist" and is a serious issue as far as the reputation of transpeople go since they're just the worst attentionwhores possible.