Kind of just felt like sparking a discussion thread and thought this might be an interesting one.

For me personally, one of, if not, my most controversial takes is that I will associate with anyone. Regardless of their opinions of if I personally find their opinions to be disgusting or revolting. I will give anyone respect who gives me respect.

Another one which I’ve expressed here before is that I do not think someone simply being a pedophile automatically makes them a pure evil child abuser who can’t help but rape every child that they see. And that some people can have this affliction and not actively seek out abusive content or attempt abusive actions.

My opinions on loli/shota/cub are also fairly controversial, but I imagine those are mostly shared by the majority of people here.

That should probably get us started pretty good!

So, What’s a controversial take that you have that most people would disagree with?

Feel free to have peaceful discussions about other people’s responses.

  • xdd@burggit.moe
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    1 year ago

    I mean, it’s also entirely possible to just have a romantic & sexual relationship… without having kids.

    Given the genetic consequences of inbreeding are the main reason behind the taboo of incest, I think talking about it is important, and even that only really applies to direct relatives (siblings, parents, children), but I’m not well researched on that, so please don’t take my word as fact. Ignoring that, well duh, of course you should be free to date and/or have sex with absolutely anyone you like, as long as they consent and know what they’re doing (the test I mentioned would be very handy here, wouldn’t it?)

    Isn’t “male” and “female” referring to different sides of one (possibly the only, I’m not super well-researched) axis of gender in that scenario? Like, you can both consider gender a spectrum… and want to be on the other side of/in another place on that spectrum

    Yeah, I didn’t use the right terms, that’s on me. Rather than viewing gender as a spectrum, I was thinking of people who throw gender out of the window, stating it is a social construct and we should be questioning our identity. Maybe there’s way less people who think like that than those who see it as a spectrum, but as I see it, they’re both essentially ways to minimize the role of gender in our lives.

    the individual being gatekept is reading/playing/watching whatever they’re supposed to be fans of but happen to have some side trait that the gatekeeper disagrees with (including such things as “has a different favorite work in the series”)

    Such behavior is obnoxious, sure, but I don’t know if I’d call it “gatekeeping” when it feels more like a splinter among a larger community, especially when you’re able to ignore and block them. Well, I’ve rarely seen such behavior myself because I’m not really part of big communities where that’s common (non-anonymous ones, at least), so I’m not the best person to talk about this.