I’ve never understood why people get earrings, despite them often being unattractive.

79 points

Firstly: wow, an actual unpopular opinion!

Secondly: I will go so far as to say absolutely tooooons of people wear earrings that I personally find extremely silly, unfashionable, or outright gross.

Sorry ear plug people. They look goofy when theyre in and they look horrifying when theyre out.

Probably this opinion of mine comes from knowing a person who managed to get their … ear loop? caught on something and tear apart.

Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.

I used to date a person who worked at a Claire’s… and they would tell me that they would often, as in multiple times a week, have a family of recent immigrants from… India? Bangladesh? … come into the store, and they would have to physically restrain a screaming obviously unwilling child to get their ears pierced.

Anyway: I think it is too far to agree that earrings in general are just bad all the time, but there are lots of cases where theyre done poorly.

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Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.

Tonight’s breaking story: Vexikron thinks it’s great when a two-year-old is given ear piercings!

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Haha!

The youngest my ex was pretty sure they were forced to pierce was was 3.

For the record: It’s also child abuse to force a 2, 1, 0, or frozen zygote in an IVF lab to get it’s ears pierced unwillingly rofl.

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The fools, they should have told that child from the day they were born that they couldn’t have pierced ears until they were at least 12. The kid would start wheedling for it at 6 and they could “give in” at 8. The child would still cry after the first ear, but would sit still and say thank you afterwards.

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Also: I think its child abuse to force a 3 to 9 year old to get their ears pierced.

Here it’s normal to do it to your toddler.

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In America it’s “normal” to cut off part of your kid’s dick, doesn’t make it right.

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I mean, I’m tattooed and pierced, and I still don’t personally agree with piercing children’s ears either. IMHO that’s a rather personal choice and should be made by the person itself, not parents. But IMHO, objectively speaking, it makes no sense to put both on the same level.

A tiny earring like kids get is about 20-18g - in the sub-millimetre range. Unless you go at a shitty venue with terrible hygienic practices, these things stop hurting in minutes, stop being sore after mere hours, a day or two tops, and are pretty much as reversible as can be. There’s very little “bad” about it except a child crying for a minute or two - and that already happens hundreds of times a day, when they get vaccines, when they wait a minute while you prepare their bottle, when they’re tired, or honestly, just cause they feel like shit and can’t tell you cause they don’t speak yet.

Chopping off foreskins has zero use outside religious belief or medically motivated surgeries, and has long-term, irreversible medical implications.

I still don’t agree with the act, but not all evil is created equal…

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1 point

Did you think I thought it made it okay?

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61 points

Hey this guy has an unpopular opinion! Gonna upvote you and tell you you’re wrong

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Yea, I love all piercings and have always thought they were either cute or a good conversation piece.

Ear, nose, lip, tongue, brow, whatever. Even big gauges are interesting looking and wouldn’t stop me from flirting with someone.

I just think its neat.

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59 points

Different people find different things attractive, as surprising as it is.

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11 points

Internet user discovers what an opinion is.

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What a useless comment

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62 points

Different people find different comments useful, as surprising as it is.

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7 points

I cummed

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I have earrings because I like the way they look. That’s really all I mean, earrings are sexy. I don’t really see how there’s an issue with expressing that.

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44 points

How oddly worded… I understand that this is “unpopularopinion”, but you say “despite them often being unattractive” as if it’s a fact they’re unattractive

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Contextually this is a … board? Sublemmy?.. whatever, the context is obviously opinions, it completely makes sense that in an opinion … zone… someone would state their opinion frankly or cavalierly.

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Contextually this is a … board? Sublemmy?..

“Community” is the accepted term… that’s why the link to them is labeled ‘Communities’ and why it’s /c/. (On kbin, they’re Magazines, but kbin is the black sheep.)

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Hey, my wool is white and fluffy, like a cloud!

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12 points

Difference between starting an opinion and making a leading statement.

Manipulative people don’t even realize they’re doing it.

^ example of a leading statement, not an opinion.

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Finally an actually unpopular opinion lol

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