Unpopular Opinion
Welcome to the Unpopular Opinion community!
How voting works:
Vote the opposite of the norm.
If you agree that the opinion is unpopular give it an arrow up. If it's something that's widely accepted, give it an arrow down.
Guidelines:
Tag your post, if possible (not required)
- If your post is a "General" unpopular opinion, start the subject with [GENERAL].
- If it is a Lemmy-specific unpopular opinion, start it with [LEMMY].
Rules:
1. NO POLITICS
Politics is everywhere. Let's make this about [general] and [lemmy] - specific topics, and keep politics out of it.
2. Be civil.
Disagreements happen, but that doesn’t provide the right to personally attack others. No racism/sexism/bigotry. Please also refrain from gatekeeping others' opinions.
3. No bots, spam or self-promotion.
Only approved bots, which follow the guidelines for bots set by the instance, are allowed.
4. Shitposts and memes are allowed but...
Only until they prove to be a problem. They can and will be removed at moderator discretion.
5. No trolling.
This shouldn't need an explanation. If your post or comment is made just to get a rise with no real value, it will be removed. You do this too often, you will get a vacation to touch grass, away from this community for 1 or more days. Repeat offenses will result in a perma-ban.
6. Defend your opinion
This is a bit of a mix of rules 4 and 5 to help foster higher quality posts. You are expected to defend your unpopular opinion in the post body. We don't expect a whole manifesto (please, no manifestos), but you should at least provide some details as to why you hold the position you do.
Instance-wide rules always apply. https://legal.lemmy.world/tos/
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Gender segregated sports aren't segregated so women get to play. Sure, a lot of girls benefit from this segregation, but it's not the reason.
High-skill men, unskilled men, high-skill women, mid-skill women, and unskilled women have historically been kinda fine in letting men and women compete in an equal footing. For man-centric things this means most winners and competitors will be men, but the inverse happens for woman-centric things and nobody really complains.
But mid-skill men doing a man-centric thing absolutely lose it when they lose to high-skill women. Which doesn't happen a lot, but they lose it loudly enough when it does happen that for anything as trivial as sport it's easier to just segregate so we can protect the fragile egos of mid-skill men who just can't handle losing to a woman.
Lol some men can be so... What's the word I'm looking for? Fragile hits the spot