You aren't going to agree with everything everyone says all the time, and not only is that a fact, but it's also okay. We don't need to have the same opinions, although my mother would disagree. Just yesterday I was at a friend's birthday party. Amidst the laughter and clinking glasses, I found myself inadvertently eavesdropping on conversation brewing in corners. People said all kinds of things that made me inwardly gag, and the more I listened, the more I disagreed. Some nodded in agreement w…

Christmasssssssss is coming up, and I am per usual, per every year, per every decade, STRESSED. Running about to find gifts, gahhh, it's absolutely exhausting and my family is never happy with what I get them anyway, but it's not like I have a choice, because they would be way more offended if I didn't get them anything at all. So, you win some, you lose some. Now that I am done with my short holiday rant, let's get on to the unpopular opinions. Every so often, I make a point to post the most r…

Tada, November will be gone in a flash, and before we know it, December will be upon us with a big Christmas-y bang, and the holiday shopping season will have us scrambling between malls, trying to find the perfect gift for our family, friends, and loved ones. Christmas carols will be ringing in our ears, our eyes will be blinded by tall, beaming Christmas trees, and our mother will be calling us non-stop, making sure we got the yearly holiday invite as if we would dare not show up. Holidays ar…

Ahem, hi everyone, hello there, heya, greetings… Are you ready for a slightly cringey, perhaps off-putting selection of unpopular opinions? Have you slipped on your judgey glasses , and pushed them up your nose a bit, so you can look extra condescending when you go through them? Good, me too. If you've ever taken a 'mass communication' class in college, chances are you crossed paths with the ‘Spiral of Silence’, proposed by the German political scientist, Elisabeth Noelle-Neumann. If you are ha…