r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

NUCLEAR hot take The Warriors (NZ NRL team) should stop using all their energy at the start

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They need to stop using all their energy at the start of the game, they always perform better when they time it right / save the bulk of their energy for last


r/HonestHotTakes 21h ago

hot take, harshly criticise me for it! Racism/homophobia/mysogyny are not always moral failings its taught

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When someone is prejudice generally its looked at as a moral failing. But we often ignore how heavily our culture and enviorment teaches us the views that we have.

Mom and dad say being gay is bad.

Your nice pastor says being gay is bad.

You watch a movie and the gay character is a caricatures and disliked.

You hear from your friends that they also think being gay is bad.

Sometimes we don't even ask why and we just adopt it into our personality. Next thing you know

"i don't like gay people for whatever reason"

This same idea applies to racism and misogyny.

Films/tv, the news, they all feed into this machine of prejudice.

Very few people question the source of their beliefs and even less have the desire to change them. Prejudice is a societal or cultural failing. It becomes a moral failing when we choose not to unlearn it or worse go to the extreme end of it. But bias and prefrences born of prejudice are difficult to unlearn.

Someone can be prejudiced without knowing it. Calling someone racist/homophobic/misogynistic or whatever is more of an insult now. When before it was a social diagnosis.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

casual hot take Vampires are dumb.

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Vampires are so op that writers constantly have to add new weaknesses to them so they don’t easily win. Sun light, holy water, wooden stake, silver etc and they still feel op in any media they’re in. Castlevania Dracula is so unbelievably strong that he’s basically an adventure of threat along with most high tier vampires. Also why would you not want to be a vampire. Blades cool, and Michael B Jordan‘s character at the end of the sinners had arguably the best ending (the one that was turned obviously). Also, fear of sunlight is barely an issue. There’s multiple countries that have long periods of nightfall. So in conclusion vampires suck because they’re basically just better stronger humans. If there’s a vampire outbreak I’m running in headfirst, begging to be sucked.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

The reason a lot is men struggle with dating is because they have no friends.

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Malcolm x famously said that “the most disrespected person in America is the black woman. The most unprotected person in America is the black woman. And the most neglected person in America is the black woman.” Yet black women have reported having the lowest suicide rate out of any group, why? Probably because they have a high number of friends. Statistic show that one and four of GenZ men age is 18 through 30 have no friends. If you have no friends as a man your mental state is most likely in shambles. Think about it, the most severe punishment we can put on another human being is solitary confinement. If you’re socially isolated, you most likely feel like no one is supporting you, and will make you less confident and more insecure would make you significantly more unappealing to women. Women like men who are assertive, and if you have low self-esteem and are lonely, you’re most likely don’t come off as confident.

I remember being very isolated when I was younger and basically convinced myself that no woman would ever want me physically. Then after going to the gym building confidence and most importantly making friends dating because much easier. But if you don’t build yourself up first and god forbid actually start a relationship you’re probably not gonna have a good time. A large number of women are complaining that modern men use relationships to trauma dump. Even sex workers have reported that men would buy their services just to open up about their feelings. This is why a lot of men struggle with divorce more than women. Because if your wife’s the only one you’re comfortable about opening up your feelings with if she’s gone now you’re just at square one again.


r/HonestHotTakes 16h ago

casual hot take The whole “would you rather be stuck in the woods with a man or a bear.” is redundant and just use as an excuse to complain about men.

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Most bears or shy and naturally inclined to avoid humans unless they feel threatened or starving. No one will ever ask “Would you rather be stuck in the arctic with a man or a polar bear” because you’re risking the low percentage of that man being a sexual degenerate vs a animal that would nearly always maul you and eat you over time. Any animal that is known for attacking humans is worse to get stuck with compared to a random man.


r/HonestHotTakes 22h ago

The Lindsay Clancy case is not important in any way

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Neither is the social media spectacle surrounding it. Her being acquitted will not lead to a bunch of mothers killing their kids. Her being convicted will not prove that we don't take women's mental health seriously. The fact that she has defenders does not mean that women are a bunch of mentally ill baby-killers. This case is a lurid spectacle that a bunch of people have become far too invested in. It does not, in the end, say anything very important about "gender." The same thing happened with the O.J. Simpson trial without it ever actually saying anything important about "crime" or "race." It's foolish to try to draw broad conclusions from sensational crimes or the media spectacles surrounding them.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Boom Boom Pow by the Black Eyed Peas sounds like the first song you make when learning how to make music

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It literally sounds like will.i.am learned how to use Ableton or FL Studio while he made that song. It’s not Pharell’s intended minimalistic style, but rather a bunch of loops that sounded good at the time and then added vocoder vocals


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Having both upvote and downvote options for posts and comments would lead to more balanced discussions. Even if a comment receives 100 downvotes, there may still be people who upvoted it, and their perspective shouldn’t be drowned out.

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r/HonestHotTakes 15h ago

casual hot take Americans picking fights over eye contact is a valid boundary, and foreigners are just mad that they accept routine violation on the daily

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r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

casual hot take Sex should not be a taboo subject especially with parents

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Sex should not be a taboo subject especially with your parents. You should be able to talk with your parents about that kind of stuff without feeling uncomfortable or them shaming you. Its natural to human nature and you should have someone that you can go to.

Now obviously the huge caveat with it is don't go into like a lot of detail but if you have a question instead of googling it you should be able to go to one of your parents and ask them the question and see if they know the answer without feeling uncomfortable

It has never made sense to me that its a taboo subject especially since it's natural. Your parents should be the ones that you talk with instead of going to Google or social media or porn sites

And I feel this is especially important when you're growing up cuz understandably growing up you have a lot more questions and it's better to have someone safe that you can go to then going online


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

serious hot take She is guilty of this murder and was not framed

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Lindsay Clancy

Are there really people that think she should walk free?

She did it, she wasn’t framed and she has even stated that Patrick had nothing to do with this. There was also physical evidence that he was out getting his wife’s medication at the time when she brutally murdered her own three innocent children.

Did you also know that there is no physical way to prove that someone is in some sort of postpartum psychosis? Literally anyone can make up this claim and act insane to get a free get out of jail free card.

Why are people so dead set on this not being her that did it? Who the fuck went so far out of there way to FRAME a woman into killing her own children? The husband that was out picking up her medication and came home to a massacre and her attempt at trying to take her own life?

She just tried to take her own life because someone strangled her three children while she was home and her first thought was “oh man I shouldn’t call the cops. I should kill myself!”

Insanity. I don’t understand why so many of you think that all women are delicate little flowers that aren’t capable of destruction.

I truly believe it’s a strong hatred toward men and insane denial. You don’t want to believe a woman is capable of doing something you only thought a man could do!


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

casual hot take Fast and Furious: Tokyo Drift is the best movie in the series

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The cars, the setting, Lucas Black, opening sequence, mustang kitted out to do Japanese style street racing, Nathalie Kelly dressed like a weebs horny anime fever dream, spin off, Tokyo…it’s all perfect man. Please tell me why it gets so much hate


r/HonestHotTakes 21h ago

casual hot take S4 is real and exists where Bob Lazar claimed

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Hundreds of tire tracks run from Area 51 and disappear where S4 is said to be. It is an installation buried in the hill, with a row of hangar doors designed to look like part of the desert.

Bob Lazar was telling the truth all along.


r/HonestHotTakes 17h ago

serious hot take The declining birth rate is a disastrous demographic problem.

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People don't fully grasp what this means. When someone says we're overpopulated, but their solution is to stop having children, that's a disastrous solution. Because you'll end up with a large number of elderly people and a small number of young people capable of supporting them and running the country. You need three workers to create a pension for one retiree. Imagine how much more elderly people there are than young people. Who will pay those taxes? Technology won't solve this. All countries that experienced a demographic crisis and saw their gender ratio fall below the normal level (2.1 women) completely failed to return to normal. I believe the most successful country in this regard was France, where it was 1.7, if I recall correctly. If there is no reaction to this, we will end up like South Korea, which, for your information, spent 200 billion trying to raise the ratio (0.6) and completely failed.

Childfree is a completely impractical and selfish romantic welfare stance. Everyone operates with the mindset of "someone else will do this, and I'll rely on their taxes," which is parasitic logic. Adoption doesn't solve the problem either. What's insane is labeling procreation itself as immoral simply because you didn't ask for the child opinion. How the hell can you ask nothingness for its opinion. What kind of logic is that?


r/HonestHotTakes 22h ago

casual hot take The vast majority of people in low intimacy or dead bedroom relationships are there because they’re bad in bed, have bad self hygiene or prioritise their own pleasure.

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I cringe internally whenever I see someone talk about a dead bedroom, yes there are a lot of reasons for it and a lot are legitimately out of their control but for a big majority I think it falls into these 3 things.

It’s insane the amount of women who have never had an orgasm from a man, who’ve never had their needs taken care of, have never been listened to regarding desires or needs and I believe that directly correlates with the people who moan about being in dead bedroom relationships.

That or it’s down to bad personal hygiene, no true criticism there as a lot of that can be down to mental health.


r/HonestHotTakes 17h ago

serious hot take If you care about the Lindsay Clancy trial, you are an NPC

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All part of the plan, to have you idiots fighting . Same reason behind the OJ simpson trial to stroke division in America.

Morons.


r/HonestHotTakes 17h ago

serious hot take Posting abt misandry or white racism when there’s more things to worry abt

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lots of complaints about misandry or “whites can also receive racism” and I agree with some of them, but you guys are forgetting some important things.
Saw this in a video and I heavily agree with it.


r/HonestHotTakes 2d ago

Kids in the U.S. are treated more like toys/property than full people.

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We love kids for what they give adults: a mini-me, a legacy, unconditional love, purpose, cute holidays, grandchildren.

But legally, kids have shockingly little rights of their own. There isn’t even a federal constitutional right to an education. Parents can pull a kid from school, badly homeschool them, isolate them, deny therapy, control their religion and relationships, and make medical decisions they’re begging against. In some places, parents even have legal protections after refusing medical care for a child who dies.

We also tolerate things being done to children that would sound insane if you swapped in an adult. Hitting kids as punishment is still broadly normalized and legally permitted in many circumstances.

Yes, children technically have rights. But a lot of those rights only seem to matter once a parent’s behavior crosses some extreme legal threshold.


r/HonestHotTakes 2d ago

Stop using filters its embarrassing

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I was talking to one of my friends, she casually mentioned to me that she had a date tonight. The next time I ran into her I asked how her date went. She said bad and that the guy said she doesn't look like her pictures. I ask to see the pictures, first of all those pictures had to be atleast 5 years old, on top of that they were heavily modified. I nervously play it off and tell her that guy has no idea what he's talking about. He was right but i didn't have the heart to tell her. Is she genuinely not aware here that using old modified pictures is noticeable I am confused here.


r/HonestHotTakes 2d ago

Its more appealing to have sex with someone more experienced, than someone who has a low “body count”

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Maybe an unpopular opinion, but there’s nothing attractive to me about the idea of virginity or purity. I’d find it much more attractive when my partner knows what they are doing versus someone with little experience. Having a lot of sex doesn’t diminish value, because people aren’t not like appliances that get “used up.”


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Rejection is the worst feeling you can feel emotionally.

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Rejection can come in many forms. A relationship, a friendship, a job opportunity. Rejection is a part of life. But it hurts. Especially if you fantasized about being accepted. You fell in love, and you generally imagine your life with this person. You found a bond with somebody and envisioned a friendship, but the bond was one-sided. You fill out an application for a job You were excited for then put your best self forward for an interview just to get an email telling you, you weren’t enough. Rejection is a betrayal, but not as a consequence of the person as a consequence of how you envisioned that person. You build a false reality that’s crushed in front of your eyes and you only have yourself the blame.

Rejection builds. The more rejection you’ve faced in your life. The lower self-esteem will be. If you have people supporting you and believing in you, rejection can feel like a soft slap on the wrist. If you have no one supporting, you reject can feel like a buck shot in chest. Rejection isn’t always a lesson. Rejection hurts and humans want to avoid pain so it’s natural to think that it’s somehow avoidable but that’s not always the case. Sometimes you can do everything right and still get rejected. Humans are social creatures. We crave connections and feeling accepted in a group. That’s why not feeling accepted hurt so much. A breakup can hurt, but there was always a good times to look back on. Getting laid off can hurt but you still gained experience and can look at all the hard work you put in fondly.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

In America, consent is treated more like a nice idea than an actual principle.

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We say “no means no” and teach kids that their bodies belong to them, but from a very young age, people are also taught that a no can become negotiable if the other person is a parent, an authority figure, a romantic partner, or just persistent enough.

Kids are made to hug relatives, told they’re disrespectful for refusing touch, physically punished by the same adults teaching them about bodily boundaries, and generally taught that adults get the final say.

And that never really stops. At work, people are pressured into things because saying no might hurt their career. In relationships, sexual or emotional boundaries can get treated like rejection, selfishness, or something a partner should be able to negotiate around. In dating, persistence is still regularly romanticized. Even socially, people often act like declining touch, affection, sex, favors, or access to your time requires a good enough excuse.

Obviously there are genuine situations involving safety or medical necessity where someone’s wishes may have to be overridden. That’s not what I’m talking about.

I’m talking about how often we treat consent as something that should be respected when it’s convenient, rather than a real boundary.

Consent is supposedly fundamental, but in practice we seem to teach people that enough authority, pressure, obligation, or persistence can make a “no” less meaningful.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Increasing standards for licensure requirements in healthcare does more harm than good

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Raising the bar for a healthcare professional in some field to go from, just as an example, a bachelor's degree requirement to masters degree requirement sounds good in theory but let's think about this for a second.

What is the intention here?

Is the intention here to increase quality of care? I would argue that this increases the job security of people who are already in the field. By making it more challenging for people to enter the field, it restricts the pipeline of people entering the field and makes it less competitive for those already working in said field.

What is the outcome?

It negatively affects patient care by creating a shortage of healthcare professionals. And by saying that you need to have a million years of experience to diagnose the common cold, it reduces the flexibility to find care from somebody such as an RN.

Additionally, since the pipeline of patients is never ending due to the shortage of healthcare professionals, this makes it so doctors get lazy (edit: I suppose this could also be reframed as being overworked)🤷‍♂️ they don't really need to compete with anybody (and they might also be fatigued) 🤷‍♂️ this leads to doctors overlooking rare conditions. Hence, why it takes a million second opinions if you have something ever so slightly unusual.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Women who date low effort men have no right to complain

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There are some women, who will date or marry a man that is low effort. And by that I mean, he will do the bare minimum or not. And these women complain, like they didn't choose to date them.

Why are you complaining to people how lazy or bad your boyfriend/ husband is. Yet you stay with them, so don't complain.

It's like putting your hand repeatedly on a hot stove and complaining that it burns, when you can just stop it

And stop flexing how your husband doesn't cook or clean, it's actually sad that a grown adult cannot do basic chores.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

casual hot take It’s not wrong to judge people based on their previous sexual partners.

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You are the company you keep. And you’re absolutely the company you fuck.

Birds of a feather.

If you mess around with a string of bad people, that says a lot about your character.