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⌈ Secret Post #4685 ⌋

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Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

A relative has recently stepped up her Facebook posting for a lot of strong, tumblr-like advocating for people who suffer from depression, introverts, etc. She's been in therapy and is on antidepressants and I know she's had a tough time. We've talked about it because I have similar issues.

But then she posts about how self medicating with weed and vaping is sooooo therapeutic for her and implies that it's unreasonable and judgemental to think otherwise and...well, I think otherwise. I do side eye people who claim they NEED to smoke weed for their anxiety. I'm not saying that it never helps with anxiety, but I think it's bullshit to act like you wouldn't smoke it if you weren't anxious because ffs, just admit you like it. It's weed, not insulin.

We're not in a state where it's legal, btw. She has kids. Bragging about this on your public FB is really stupid, almost as if you're over indulging with a substance that impairs your judgement, hmmm...

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I absolutely agree with what your saying. It's exactly the same as how my mother drinks to deal with her back pain because she hates pills and refuses to take even tylenol. I hope her kids aren't young, it must be horrible for them.c

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Yep. It's kinda funny, all the "it's medicine" comments because... alcholics have been saying that about alcohol for decades. There are plenty of people who abuse alcohol and who firmly believe they "need it" and that it's their "medicine" and it helps them because it's better than [insert more harmful drug here]. The reasoning is exactly the same, which should strongly suggest that maybe it's not legit.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

ok but like

she's literally saying it's therapeutic FOR HER? maybe that'll help others and maybe it won't, but there's nothing wrong with saying that something is helping her

and i'm gonna be honest here and say that this is kind of personally annoying to me because i take weed for chronic pain, and i 100% tell people about it bc it's saved me from having to get addicted to opiates instead.

and no, i wouldn't be using it if i didn't need it. i'm not just ~getting high~, i don't "just like it". it's medicine for me. it's medicine for her.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

You and my relative are clearly on the same page. It's nice you find weed so helpful, but calling something medicine doesn't make it medicine.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I'm really judgemental about smoking.

1.) At this point everyone knows it can cause cancer and a whole of a lot of other issues and while I don't care if you want to screw up your own health, I hate it when I see young parents (or pet owners) smoke in their houses or next to their children. No, being outside does not magically erase the smoke once it leaves your orifices!
2.) STOP THROWING YOUR FINISHED CIGARETTES EVERYWHERE JFC
3.) Why must people smoke where other people are eating outside of restaurants/icecream parlours? It not only makes my eyes itch, the stench also makes my food not taste as good.
4.) I side-eye that people at work can take extra cigarette breaks when they feel like it... maybe I should ask for potato chips breaks?

I do realize that there is a calming effect for lots of people, that there is some sort of community-feeling and that it's very addicting (otherwise I can't explain those ppl in their wheelchairs fresh out of toe amputation surgery outside the hospital, smoking.) but my hate is just very irrational at this point. It doesn't even look cool.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[cakemage]

I'm glad weed helps with your chronic pain! I really wish it had helped with mine, but unless I took an opioid 15-30 minutes before I smoked, it always caused me to have a major fibro flare and I'd be in utter, clawing-at-my-skin agony for the rest of the night. If I took a Norco along with it, though, it'd not only reduce my anxiety for a while, it'd give me a few hours of slightly more pain relief than the pills alone can provide. I won't deny the high was nice, too, especially since pleasurable sensations of any kind are increasingly rare for me. However, my pain doctor legally can't prescribe opiates to people who use weed, even if they have a prescription, and since he has to do random drug tests and since opioids are the only thing that consistently make my pain somewhat tolerable, it just didn't seem worth it to smoke weed anymore, and so ultimately I quit using it altogether. I know I'm lucky to have a doctor who not only believes my pain is real but is willing to prescribe me the medication I need to manage it, and if that means I have to make a few small sacrifices, so be it. A lot of people with pain issues (be it physical, mental or emotional) aren't so lucky--especially in the U.S.--and because they can't get access to the medical care they need for whatever reason, they end up self-medicating with alcohol and narcotics out of pure desperation for even a small amount of relief, anything that can help them tolerate the pain at least for a little while, and I honestly can't judge them for it. It could just as easily be me in that situation.

And really, I get why people are leery of opiates, but in my opinion, a lot of the stigma against them (and especially against people who need them) does way more harm than good. So many of the proposed "solutions" and much of the current legislation that attempts to fix the opioid epidemic is focused solely on the surface problems, and doesn't even begin to address the underlying reasons why people turn to them in the first place. But that's a rant for another day.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Homophobes are frequently gay and closeted. At some point it became ~problematic~ and offensive to say this, but I have way too much experience with it being the case to claim it's not true.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

It's weird because people act like it's true of every homophobe, and they use is in reaction to specific acts of individual homophobia, and both of those things are really weird and fucked up.

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[(Anonymous)]

My best friend (a gay man) and I like to play a game where when we hear a man spouting homophobic garbage, we immediately get on his phone and go to Grindr to find the guy. We're at a solid 70% success rate.

I'd do the same for women, but I don't know of any active lesbian-centric apps, lmao

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Youtubers, especially those with cute animals...

Listen to me. The world will not end if you don't include that shitty stock music in your kitten and puppy videos. In fact, in a lot of cases, your video would be better without it.

Also, a general message to video compilation folks... STOP DICTATING MY REACTION TO YOUR VIDEOS. I'll decide for myself whether or not your "cats being derpy" montage will result in me farting my colon inside out, thank you very much. There's no need to issue orders of "TRY NOT TO LAUGH" or "THIS IS SO CUTE YOU WILL AGHADHG;LAKHUGHAUGHLGDKHG;" in your title to the audience. It's stupid and annoying as fuck.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Hard same

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

HELL YES. I could also do without dumbass sound effects, too.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Thing is: there are medicinal marijuana products that have all the effectiveness but with the "getting high" part severely reduced. But somehow, they rarely use that stuff instead of smoking the regular shit.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Funny how that works, isn't it?

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

Wanting to get high isn't bad, in and of itself. And if you can get the medicinal benefits the same either way, and you'd prefer to get high than not get high, I don't see how that invalidates the medical benefits or your interest in them.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[tabaqui]

That stuff's pretty hard to find if you're not in a state where medical marijuana is legal.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

There are! But they're only available in places where medical marijuana is legal, and depending on regional legislation may only be available by prescription, so someone living in a state where medical marijuana isn't legal wouldn't be able to get their hands on them easily - they'd essentially have to travel to someplace that a) has legalized recreational marijuana and b) sells low-THC products in legal recreational shops, buy what they need, and smuggle it across state lines...which is a hell of a lot more risky than getting a dime bag from their local dealer.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

I fully believe that you can be at your perfect weight and unhealthy. I also believe that you can be overweight and healthy. I 100% do NOT believe that you can be (morbidly) obese for a longer time and healthy and I side-eye everyone who says otherwise.
(Ofc that also doesn't mean that obese people should be looked down at or treated like less of the person they are.)

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[philstar22]

I agree with this. And I'm obese. there have been a lot of factors that have gone into it. It isn't all just food and lack of exercise. Some health issues I have plus some medications I have taken over the years plus my self-medication my mental health conditions have all lead to my weight. But I know it isn't healthy. I've been losing weight recently due to a new med I'm on, and it makes me happy. I feel healthier, I feel better.

I mean, there is a reason why the fat people movement has gone in the direction it has. But it isn't helpful. Saying anything is healthy is not the solution. the solution is to say people get to make their own choices. the solution is to say that 1. health is not a value judgment and that someone's weight isn't a comment on their merit as a person and 2. many factors go into weight, not just food in exercise out and 3. there really is discrimination and judgment against fat people that needs to be called out and stopped.

I've certainly had bad doctors who've blamed everything on my weight (shout out to all the gynecologists over the years who blamed my bad periods on my weight so I didn't get diagnosed with endometriosis until I was 33). And I've certainly been told by people over the years that my worth as a human being is less because I'm fat and ugly.

But that doesn't mean I don't want to lose weight. Or that wanting to lose weight is wrong. Or that the weight I'm at is healthy. Because it isn't. I'm getting better, slowly. I've made real progress the past few months (thank you, Topamax). I'm never going to be skinny, but I think I can reach healthy fat. I'm not there yet.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

honestly i want to tear my hair out when i see people online trying to claim that being extremely obese doesn't negatively affect your health at all, because it's just not true. being too fat can cause you serious health problems, just like how being too skinny can cause you serious health problems.

the issue is all the bullshit that gets spread around that being stick-thin is some 'ideal' weight when in reality each person has their own personal healthy weight, and that the range of that healthy weight will vary inside a surprisingly large margin. the trick is finding what's best for you, not going off a 'one size fits all' template that can't possibly be used on every single individual because all our bodies are different.

saying all this though: fuck anyone who's nasty to obese people because of that fact, what you look like should never determine your worth as a person.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

There is no workable better alternative to capitalism, so everyone should stop talking about them as if they're possible. Your "everyone could contribute exactly what they're able to society and help others and we'd all be happy" utopias would collapse as soon as a small group of people decide no, they're not happy, they want more. And that's exactly how we got capitalism in the first place.

And it's rich that these Tumblr bloggers proposing this utopian solution to capitalism that relies on every individual's inherent goodness are the same people cancelling every individual for the smallest thing. They are more cynical about human nature than anyone I've ever met, except when it comes to their hypothetical anticapitalist ideals.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[(Anonymous)]

If you're a man who likes men or a woman who likes women, you're not straight. You're just not. I don't care if you like the opposite sex way more/more often than the same sex, you're still bisexual because it just means that you like both to some degree, not that you necessarily like them equally.

Re: Unpopular non-fandom opinions

[tabaqui]

Some people are F!S are really judgemental about other people getting high, and really self-righteous when it comes to 'defending' that position.

Isn't anyone going to defend vaping?

[(Anonymous)]

LOL...