Controversial opinions

[Stopwatch]

I don't like How I Met Your Mother or a lot of shows like it. It's a show that I think I could like if I could watch it, but studio audience laughter irritates me more than I can say. I genuinely can't even pay attention to shows with studio audience laughter because it pisses me off so much. I really just wish these shows could come with an option to watch them with the laughter tuned out.

I'll tell you something though, there are certain things where the audience definitely adds to the hilarity. Example one:
http://youtu.be/pXwny6VfFpg

...I'm sorry!

(I will say I like some episodes of HIMYM though because any plot holes can just be covered by unreliable narrator and Barney is an awesome character :x)

[Pmofmalasia]

I don't like How I Met Your Mother or a lot of shows like it. It's a show that I think I could like if I could watch it, but studio audience laughter irritates me more than I can say. I genuinely can't even pay attention to shows with studio audience laughter because it pisses me off so much. I really just wish these shows could come with an option to watch them with the laughter tuned out.

I don't like most shows like How I Met Your Mother, because of the laugh track and such, but How I Met Your Mother is an exception to me. You appreciate it more when you watch it from the beginning, I think, because they have so many jokes/references planned out from previous episodes. And you can tell when you watch it that they've been planning some part of the story for a while, as opposed to a lot of crap TV shows that just try to make the most 'shocking' plot twist just for the hell of it, even though it really just makes no goddamn sense.

[bluekaitou1412]

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

[Pmofmalasia]

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

[Stopwatch]

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

I basically just go through the episodes counted as important to continuity and the ones with the best ratings. If I like a series enough after that I start to fill in the gaps slowly over time.

And now I've got to think of something controversial to say...

[bluekaitou1412]

#7 - "Women empowerment" and "gender equality" are overrated. Not saying this because I'm not female, it's just that I'm so tired hearing it from people and women who keeps b*tching about it (while still expecting their boyfriends/husbands to carry their shoulder bags for them).

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

Might be so, but I'm not really bothered with the laugh tracks.

[Jd-]

Laugh tracks are basically a necessity when it comes to shows filmed on sound stages and in front of studio audiences. Some of the greatest material to ever come to TV was filmed in front of a studio audience, and there's no doubt that it adds to the magic of any number of scenes. These actors aren't cordoned off with only equipment and teleprompters on the other side. Instead, there are a hundred to two hundred people watching them do their takes, and in some shows (specifically Seinfeld), I've heard the actors specifically state that the live audience added to their performances (and they did). Fewer shows are filmed on sound stages now, but there's nothing wrong with it or laugh tracks. Not only does it ease production with lighting and setting and set decoration, it also adds a lot of versatility in the editor's room later. If you can't get over laugh tracks, you have really, truly missed out on a litany of amazing television programs.

Naturally, as with anything, there are bad uses of laugh tracks, but there are plenty in which they are entirely justified and work to the benefit of the show, not its detriment. There are other shows that would have benefited a lot from the controlled environment of a sound stage but did not, and... those shows are no longer on the air.

[Stopwatch]

#7 - "Women empowerment" and "gender equality" are overrated. Not saying this because I'm not female, it's just that I'm so tired hearing it from people and women who keeps b*tching about it (while still expecting their boyfriends/husbands to carry their shoulder bags for them).

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

Might be so, but I'm not really bothered with the laugh tracks.

I think feminism as a movement isn't doing much good to its cause at this stage and is in fact often detrimental to it, but I think that gender equality as an idea is a good thing. Men shouldn't have certain social restraints placed on them just as women have certain issues in society (pay, jobs ect.) and I really think people need to recognise that both "sides" still have a way to go until equality. Plus, there's the entire thing where people *want* some double standards and whether positive discrimination, like men holding doors open for women is a good thing or not. Personally, I'm against that kind of thing because not only has the law sometimes been more lenient on women due to stereotypes, but by positively discriminating against one gender you're inadvertently excluding the other gender from these benefits. If that makes any sense?

[bluekaitou1412]

That makes a lot of sense, don't worry. The thing is, these stereotypes (which can be beneficial, as mentioned by Ringo awhile ago) aren't going anywhere. There are also a lot of factors to consider like cultural relativity, and yes, that thing about "double standards".

I don't think the law is more lenient on women (although most who implement and enforce them are) as in the case of the Philippine Constitution where laws that favor men still outweighs those for women. I just wish these "feminists" I know would just stop pushing for "gender equality" and then STRONGLY IMPLY, if not outright state, that women are better than men/women should hold more power than men. Talk about equality.

Speaking of, there's still this issue of whether they really want "equality" or "equity". Hopefully, it's the latter.

[Ringo]

Speaking of, there's still this issue of whether they really want "equality" or "equity". Hopefully, it's the latter.

I am a feminist. Unconsciously, I have these ideas siding females, and covertly discriminating males. But if asked, what I really want, it is this equity. I am slightly annoyed of males commanding or ignoring females, and putting the action under the pretense of women empowerment. For instance, an old lady is carrying a heavy box, and a young man passes by. The young man refuses to help the lady, because of his idea of women empowerment. I admit that I am physically weak, so I can hardly say that I'm speaking in behalf of all females, and there're things that I cannot do that an average male can.

Gender Equality is impossible, because of the overt differences between the two sexual orientations or between the many existing genders. But equity can be pushed. (:

[bluekaitou1412]

Maybe the young man has got some things to worry about. XD Kidding aside, this reminds me of...

#8 - I believe that helping people is a choice, not a responsibility, not a duty.

[Kleene Onigiri]

#7 - "Women empowerment" and "gender equality" are overrated. Not saying this because I'm not female, it's just that I'm so tired hearing it from people and women who keeps b*tching about it (while still expecting their boyfriends/husbands to carry their shoulder bags for them).

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

Might be so, but I'm not really bothered with the laugh tracks.

I think feminism as a movement isn't doing much good to its cause at this stage and is in fact often detrimental to it, but I think that gender equality as an idea is a good thing. Men shouldn't have certain social restraints placed on them just as women have certain issues in society (pay, jobs ect.) and I really think people need to recognise that both "sides" still have a way to go until equality. Plus, there's the entire thing where people *want* some double standards and whether positive discrimination, like men holding doors open for women is a good thing or not. Personally, I'm against that kind of thing because not only has the law sometimes been more lenient on women due to stereotypes, but by positively discriminating against one gender you're inadvertently excluding the other gender from these benefits. If that makes any sense?

But... but... I also hold open the door for other people :V

Well, there is also this trend nowadays, where women don't want to cook because they are "feminists" or men don't want to pay dinner because they wanna be "equal".
How about you hold open the door because you're simply polite and a nice person, or you cook some food because you're hungry or because the person you like asked you nicely or that you pay the dinner because you asked the other person out in the first place? (because I won't pay it when you force me to go to a 3 star restaurant or whatever that I can't afford ) Whether you're male or female in all those cases :3

Controversial opinion:
The friends I make on the internet are REAL!
I hear so often from others, that they "aren't your real friends because you never saw them"...

[ProfParanoia]

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

You have no idea.

[Stopwatch]

#7 - "Women empowerment" and "gender equality" are overrated. Not saying this because I'm not female, it's just that I'm so tired hearing it from people and women who keeps b*tching about it (while still expecting their boyfriends/husbands to carry their shoulder bags for them).

I didn't get into How I Met Your Mother while my friends were really into it. I suppose I just didn't have the patience (I only got wind of the show when it's already on its 5th Season). I mostly just watch one comedy show at a time, and I'm quite busy with Big Bang Theory. XD

Which probably has the most irritating laugh track of all time >_>

Might be so, but I'm not really bothered with the laugh tracks.

I think feminism as a movement isn't doing much good to its cause at this stage and is in fact often detrimental to it, but I think that gender equality as an idea is a good thing. Men shouldn't have certain social restraints placed on them just as women have certain issues in society (pay, jobs ect.) and I really think people need to recognise that both "sides" still have a way to go until equality. Plus, there's the entire thing where people *want* some double standards and whether positive discrimination, like men holding doors open for women is a good thing or not. Personally, I'm against that kind of thing because not only has the law sometimes been more lenient on women due to stereotypes, but by positively discriminating against one gender you're inadvertently excluding the other gender from these benefits. If that makes any sense?

But... but... I also hold open the door for other people :V

Well, there is also this trend nowadays, where women don't want to cook because they are "feminists" or men don't want to pay dinner because they wanna be "equal".
How about you hold open the door because you're simply polite and a nice person, or you cook some food because you're hungry or because the person you like asked you nicely or that you pay the dinner because you asked the other person out in the first place? (because I won't pay it when you force me to go to a 3 star restaurant or whatever that I can't afford ) Whether you're male or female in all those cases :3

Controversial opinion:
The friends I make on the internet are REAL!
I hear so often from others, that they "aren't your real friends because you never saw them"...

That was what I was saying, about positive discrimination. If you only do it towards one gender then you're automatically excluding the other one. Eh, you put that better than me though ^^;. And I do the same with doors .

(Ditto on the internet friends thing btw <3)

EDIT: Missed those other two posts. Meh.

@Ringo: I get what you're saying and to some extent I agree with it, but I've seen that argument used to argue against things like women being allowed in the army so I can't bring myself to fully agree with it. The general idea I can get, just, where the distinctions lie is a problem for me.

@bluekaitou: In the UK at least, it's been proven that in the past women have much lower conviction rates (hope I got the right word there :x) and there are several ideas around why, such as the 'chivalry effect'. I don't think it's the entire reason behind that discrepancy by any means but I can certainly believe that people's attitudes towards women may have contributed to them being let off for things they shouldn't have been. It's kind of like the opposite of the entire thing with certain races being more likely to be stopped by police and so on.

[Kor]

My ideas of gender equality? Women should get the same opportunities that men get (so they can be successful just as men). There's a serious lack of females in positions of power (governments, public offices, etc.). Salaries should be the same. Lastly - safe work places where females won't be harassed due to being females.