Post a controversial opinion

people who take and share too many selfies are suspect

You need to qualify that a bit more to make it controversial

people ugly men who take and share too many selfies are suspect

Suicide is, and ought to be, a human right (with some quibbles/caveats).

You know my motto when it comes to suicide: There are more where that came from.

strong male role models are overrated. and not essential.

Best thing for north korea and the world is for more not less people to visit that country

Off with ya

Anyone who says something like "Why are spending so much money on space exploration when we have problems here on Earth" should never be allowed to look at the sky again

Bit harsh about Gil Scott-Heron

"Dude" and "bro" shouldn't be slurs, they denote fraternal affection not toxic masculinity.

Dude, context

Bro

i kinda hate when people i don't know call me dude. actually i don't really like it when people i know do it either. i don't know why.

a five-year-old kept calling me dude the other day, it was super cute

Democratic Socialists are a bunch of right-wing sellouts. That might be more local than controversial, though.

I should be allowed to drive vehicles over people with whom I have minor disagreements

You've got my vote. People with whom I have minor disagreements are the absolute worst.

you know, i almost agree with that, but...

*revs engine*

I'm in the suburbs again, and it's strange out here. People who lock themselves up in their houses like fortresses. Never speaking to their neighbors. Hiding from the world. They do what they're told, think what they're told, live their lives inside of a tiny frame of experience and believe it's the history of the universe.

I envy their lives like I envy the lives of dogs.

See, I see an opinion like that and immediately wonder how you got such ironclad certainty about what these people are thinking, how they live, or what they believe. It's extremely easy for you to judge them wholesale based on where they live or what their house looks like or how they appear to live (observed by a sneering person from elsewhere). Maybe they don't speak to their neighbors within your earshot, but you don't know about their connections among themselves, to their close and far-flung friends, to their families, or to a life of the mind that they share only with themselves.

It's as reliable as someone seeing a city dweller in a black turtleneck (or whatever) and deciding you know everything about them and what they value based on that. I mean, they probably only eat organic arugula and like only Abstract Expressionism and free jazz, while looking down their noses at the simple country folk, etc.

A person in a suburban "fortress" could be shy, terrified, or just plain happy with their own company. They could be consumed with their own thoughts and private struggles. They could be working on needlepoint, a novel, a solo album, or nothing at all. They could be deeply engaged with their own navel lint. They could be facing any number of diminishing heartbreaks or expansive flights of fancy. They could be - and probably are - chatting online with persons from Nairobi to Newfoundland.

Just as an urban or rural person might be.

booming post ye

i like abstract expressionism and free jazz and i lock myself in my house and don't speak to neighbors. i live this way regardless of whether i'm in the suburbs or the city.

solitary posts etc

I can't wait until carpet_kaiser has the realization that the peaceful veneer of the suburbs is hiding a world of dark secrets and repressed desires.

tbf the people with repressed desires can be identified by their black turtlenecks

i came from the suburbs but i hate going back, especially given my parents are too busy chatting to ppl from nairobi about their solo albums to give me the time of day

Nairobi suburbs
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these are much kinder responses to what i originally typed and deleted last night

Shake it Off is Taylor Swift's only good song.

We've had 4000+ posts on suburbs. People Who Live In Suburbs: Classy, Icky, or Dudes? no strong opinions there...

That opinion was pulled fresh from my ass while drunk. The tattooed muscle dude who spat at me today while I was outside smoking a cigarette has turned me around on them. Yes, I'm aware it's particular to this specific town.

why would some random dude spit at you?

I'm sorry that happened to you, larry.

probably because he was smoking a cigarette right outside the front door of a building the muscle dude needed to go into with his kids

Because I moved to a place where I apparently do not belong, at least this section of town.

It was outside my apartment

do you stand out in some way?

he's a carpet with a pointy helmet so I wd say yes

xp

Sort of. I guess my look is obnoxiously WASPish, which I should probably update at some point. The town is hardcore blue collar.

It's the sort of place where people just throw garbage wherever they want to, on their own street. But it's a nice looking town with an amazing location and really affordable. Maybe they don't want to get gentrified? No idea.

you think he spit at you bc you look WASPy? are your collars popped or something?

Nah, boat shoes, polo shirts, Jared Kushner hairstyle. I should probably get a new look at some point.

Yeah, maybe. Two weeks ago a guy accelerated his car at me when I was crossing at a stop sign, and the dude in the car yelled out to me "I'm a homo!" in what he assumed was my voice, which in reality isn't as high pitched as he thought.

Not a nice town, at least for me. I'm moving back to NYC pronto.

Why do you assume it was what he assumed was your voice

this does not sound like the suburbs i've been to

xp I don't know, man, I'm just being dry here.

so just so i understand - you have been spit upon and gay bashed for wearing boat shoes, polo shirts and a Jared Kushner hairstyle? where in the country are you?

I think the property manager might've snowed you when he said the complex was in Skid Row Heights, burt.

Dirt Jerz, baby. I know what's going on here, it's a certain kind of New Jersey knucklehead that's like this. I had an English professor from NYC who taught at my Jersey clown college, and he got the same shit, people would call him a "homo" on his class websites, and he got out of there pretty quickly.

It's the sort of place where you're a "total fag" if you've ever watched a movie in a foreign language. I just got stuck in this dump due to unforeseen circumstances.

Two weeks ago a guy accelerated his car at me when I was crossing at a stop sign, and the dude in the car yelled out to me "I'm a homo!" in what he assumed was my voice, which in reality isn't as high pitched as he thought.

The accelarating of the car is bad and wrong but the yelling out of "I'm a homo!" in a high pitched voice, as opposed to "You're a homo!" in any pitch of voice, tickles me.

Yeah, that's I thought was funny, too.