10 Incendiary Ideas
Too often, we're scared of what we really want to say. Here's your chance to let out ten of your most controversial opinions. Tag ten people to do the same. No flaming, no wank! You're entitled to your own opinion.
I like this idea and tho' I usually say "fuck it" about tagging, I'm going to tag here since this is interesting.
I taggeth: _lady_vanilla_, imoldfashioned, queer_theory, warriorpoet, supremegoddess1, overandoverture, smilesawakeyou, rehime, punkishgrin, and frozendoll.
ONTO THE CONTROVERSY!
#1. Suicide isn't "cowardly", it's tragic. Next time you meet someone who lost a loved one to suicide, try telling that person how "cowardly" the departed was. And I'm not counting suicide bombers or like-minded terrorists; those people are brainwashed. I'm talking about the people that lose the battle with Depression, something too many people don't realize has the potential to be a fatal disease.
#2. I support the death penalty in theory since I think there are worse things you can do to a human being. And I'm sorry, a lethal injection is not the same as someone, for example, being stabbed to death. For those that say (whether more or less rightfully) "Well, what if you kill an innocent person?", I say "Well, what if an innocent person went to jail in the first place and suffered under horrendous circumstances and when and if s/he was freed, could not find work or sanity, as is generally the case?" No, it's not a catch all, bar none, airtight case, but I do believe in it.
#3. After this interview, Bill Maher needs to be raped. This is among many reasons I can't stand that asshole.
#4. All feminists are not alike. We aren't a card carrying, mass society. The word feminist is a subjective term. I'm disgusted by shitwads like Hugh Hefner (just on general principle, but more so) who, when asked recently about his thoughts on feminism, claimed to be pro-feminist right up until "they became anti-sex". Um, what?
#5. I still don't really understand women that bitch about feminism. You do realize that were it not for feminism, you wouldn't even be allowed to air your opinion, right?
#6. Generally, I find Democratic wingnuts easier to take than Republican wingnuts. Say what you will about the Democrats, but they by and large do not hate masses of people. To those (usually Republicans) who say that sure the Democratic (or "Democrat" as though somehow mispronouncing the party name is a smear and doesn't just make them look stupid) wingnuts DO hate massive amounts of people: the Republicans, I say the Republican wingnuts still manage to hate more: the Democrats, Muslims, the GLBT community, feminists (which can be deemed left), atheists, people for the separation of church and state... the list goes on.
#7. On a political message board recently, someone stated the following about conservatives:
Conservatives were wrong on slavery, secession, segregation, women’s rights, civil rights, the privatizing of social security, and economics (before you whargarbl, my father is a top economist at CBO, and has spent a lifetime explaining to me why - regardless of all their arrogant talk about understanding economics - they just don’t seem to get it).
While the conservative movement has had a couple bright spots, it’s mostly been one big boatload of fail wrapped up all pretty in the American flag. So that we’re on the same page here, let me clarify a few things for you: evolution is the method of God’s creation and no magic genie was necessary; tax cuts are not always the best solution; war is not always the other best solution; making abortion illegal will not make it go away; democrats don’t want to take the guns out of your hands, they want to take the guns out of criminals’ hands; homosexuals are human beings and not the source of all our nation’s ills; oh, and the government you love to hate? It’s the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, you unpatriotic, unAmerican asshats.
Sit down. Please. It’s embarrassing. Someone needs to make a LOL of the republican elephant and throw it up on the fail page. Simple and to the point.
And I agree with it.
#8. I believe monosexuality is by and large a heterosexist construct. The "us and them" mentality is convenient and bisexuality (or, for that matter, believing that there are more than two genders) really throws a wrench into all of that.
#9. Hardcore atheists like Richard Dawkings and Christopher Hitchens need to be locked in a room with hardcore fundies and told to fight it out. Your religion (or lack thereof) is your business and you shouldn't be told yours is "wrong" anymore than you should be told it doesn't exist (Dawkings's particularly nasty remarks about "fairy tales" grate me). Jimmy Durante has my life's mantra: "Why can't everybody leave everyone else the hell alone?"
#10. I believe in legalizing recreational drugs. If you honestly think criminalization of these drugs has in any way lessened their use, I point to you the example of the Eighteenth Amendment. Alcohol use was far more rampant, far more dangerous, and responsible for far more crime. I sincerely don't believe that in this case, just because something is legal, more people will do it. "For every prohibition you create, you create an underground." Also, I believe marijuana in its legalized form is no less dangerous or addictive than alcohol.
Wow, that's a lot of controversy. The sad part is, I can think of ten more, easily. Should you need someone else to tag, I wouldn't mind doing it again. ;^)
I like this idea and tho' I usually say "fuck it" about tagging, I'm going to tag here since this is interesting.
I taggeth: _lady_vanilla_, imoldfashioned, queer_theory, warriorpoet, supremegoddess1, overandoverture, smilesawakeyou, rehime, punkishgrin, and frozendoll.
ONTO THE CONTROVERSY!
#1. Suicide isn't "cowardly", it's tragic. Next time you meet someone who lost a loved one to suicide, try telling that person how "cowardly" the departed was. And I'm not counting suicide bombers or like-minded terrorists; those people are brainwashed. I'm talking about the people that lose the battle with Depression, something too many people don't realize has the potential to be a fatal disease.
#2. I support the death penalty in theory since I think there are worse things you can do to a human being. And I'm sorry, a lethal injection is not the same as someone, for example, being stabbed to death. For those that say (whether more or less rightfully) "Well, what if you kill an innocent person?", I say "Well, what if an innocent person went to jail in the first place and suffered under horrendous circumstances and when and if s/he was freed, could not find work or sanity, as is generally the case?" No, it's not a catch all, bar none, airtight case, but I do believe in it.
#3. After this interview, Bill Maher needs to be raped. This is among many reasons I can't stand that asshole.
Click to view#4. All feminists are not alike. We aren't a card carrying, mass society. The word feminist is a subjective term. I'm disgusted by shitwads like Hugh Hefner (just on general principle, but more so) who, when asked recently about his thoughts on feminism, claimed to be pro-feminist right up until "they became anti-sex". Um, what?
#5. I still don't really understand women that bitch about feminism. You do realize that were it not for feminism, you wouldn't even be allowed to air your opinion, right?
#6. Generally, I find Democratic wingnuts easier to take than Republican wingnuts. Say what you will about the Democrats, but they by and large do not hate masses of people. To those (usually Republicans) who say that sure the Democratic (or "Democrat" as though somehow mispronouncing the party name is a smear and doesn't just make them look stupid) wingnuts DO hate massive amounts of people: the Republicans, I say the Republican wingnuts still manage to hate more: the Democrats, Muslims, the GLBT community, feminists (which can be deemed left), atheists, people for the separation of church and state... the list goes on.
#7. On a political message board recently, someone stated the following about conservatives:
Conservatives were wrong on slavery, secession, segregation, women’s rights, civil rights, the privatizing of social security, and economics (before you whargarbl, my father is a top economist at CBO, and has spent a lifetime explaining to me why - regardless of all their arrogant talk about understanding economics - they just don’t seem to get it).
While the conservative movement has had a couple bright spots, it’s mostly been one big boatload of fail wrapped up all pretty in the American flag. So that we’re on the same page here, let me clarify a few things for you: evolution is the method of God’s creation and no magic genie was necessary; tax cuts are not always the best solution; war is not always the other best solution; making abortion illegal will not make it go away; democrats don’t want to take the guns out of your hands, they want to take the guns out of criminals’ hands; homosexuals are human beings and not the source of all our nation’s ills; oh, and the government you love to hate? It’s the government of the people, by the people, and for the people, you unpatriotic, unAmerican asshats.
Sit down. Please. It’s embarrassing. Someone needs to make a LOL of the republican elephant and throw it up on the fail page. Simple and to the point.
And I agree with it.
#8. I believe monosexuality is by and large a heterosexist construct. The "us and them" mentality is convenient and bisexuality (or, for that matter, believing that there are more than two genders) really throws a wrench into all of that.
#9. Hardcore atheists like Richard Dawkings and Christopher Hitchens need to be locked in a room with hardcore fundies and told to fight it out. Your religion (or lack thereof) is your business and you shouldn't be told yours is "wrong" anymore than you should be told it doesn't exist (Dawkings's particularly nasty remarks about "fairy tales" grate me). Jimmy Durante has my life's mantra: "Why can't everybody leave everyone else the hell alone?"
#10. I believe in legalizing recreational drugs. If you honestly think criminalization of these drugs has in any way lessened their use, I point to you the example of the Eighteenth Amendment. Alcohol use was far more rampant, far more dangerous, and responsible for far more crime. I sincerely don't believe that in this case, just because something is legal, more people will do it. "For every prohibition you create, you create an underground." Also, I believe marijuana in its legalized form is no less dangerous or addictive than alcohol.
Wow, that's a lot of controversy. The sad part is, I can think of ten more, easily. Should you need someone else to tag, I wouldn't mind doing it again. ;^)