Name your most unusual position

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

and I don't mean THAT kind!

No I mean the position on some social, political, fiscal issue that is seen as the most strange/different by the people around you.

The issue you are MOST in the minority in, and I don't mean here, but in real life.

[qazplm]

1. I'm a liberal military officer

ALL my positions are that way ;)

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

3. Oh my, very true!

[rabid_nerd]

2. National Media Director, Draft Gore

..on edit.. never mind... brain fart.. wrong kind of position.. you meant position on an issue, didn't you?

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

4. Yep that'll do it

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

5. Also to add

I realize it really depends on where you live. Around here almost ALL of my positions are way out there.

[greatauntoftriplets]

6. Editorial Director....

...for the 4th largest office development firm in the country. Also 15th largest industrial developer.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

7. Is that your job?

So what is your most way-out there position on an issue?

[greatauntoftriplets]

9. My job.

My most way-out position on an issue? These days, I think it's that I still oppose the invasions and occupations of Afghanistan and Iraq -- puppet gummints not withstanding.

Did I mention that I am a cynic?

[Shakeydave]

8. I'm an Atheist.................

with an extended family of 1/2 believers!

[Reverend_Smitty]

10. I'm a true blue liberal democrat

and in my family that is very unusual

[Cybergata]

11. I refuse to shave..

either my legs or underarms. I stopped shaving over 30 ago, and the reasons I stopped are even more true today. Corporations tell us what we have to do to be beautiful or normal. Screw it. Sometime in the past razor blade companies convinced women in the U.S. that they weren't right if they didn't shave. The companies doubled their sales. Now I'm hearing about guys that shave their bodies. Yuck!


I truly believe that all the advertising in this country has made people sheep. I say be different, don't buy or be what companies tell you to be because all they want is MONEY, MONEY, MONEY.


I expect 99.9% of people reading this think not shaving is horrid. BUT think about what you buy because the advertisements tell that you have to have it to be cool, normal, etc?

:hippie:

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

13. I like your attitude

and I have seriously considered throwing away the razors, too. But I have to admit I love the smooth feel of it!

The place I draw the line is that I know a lot of women shave their nether-regions on a regular basis. Sorry, huh-uh, no way. Been there, done that, it was HELL a couple of days later, never doing it AGAIN!

[RT Atlanta]

16. Cyber

I am reminded a statement by Malcom X (to paraphase) when he was speaking to a crowd - who taught you your lips are "big", who taught you that you have "funny" hair?

Pretty amazing what a concerted/deliberate "marketing" effort can do to people who are actively thinking for themselves, but instead are letting themselves and their minds be spoonfed garbage from the airwaves.

Good for you and the conviction to stand behind your position.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

19. I read a short story once

about a boy who discovered this family who didn't watch TV and he asked "how do they know what to like and not like, how to be and what to be?"

Very profound and telling, I thought.

[RT Atlanta]

21. Very telling...

I will say this, it's amazing how much I have changed personally since I significantly cut back on my television watching and started to read a lot more (not necessarily books mind you, but periodicals too, and information on the net). TV is so fucking biased and NON-SUBSTANTIVE that it's amazing to me more people dont turn that crap off.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

23. Yep I stay away from TV as much as possible

and that's a lot. I will watch the odd movie on DVD and I did see the movie Anchorman in the theater today, but 100% of my news is gathered from print sources and the net.

[TrogL]

12. I don't believe in the number one

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

14. ????

You don't believe in the number 1 ?

LOL

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

15. Are there any genital integrity supporters here?

Feeling a bit lonely, hardly ever hear a peep about that issue on DU, even on the Health and Medical forum.

Anyone?

[ornotna]

22. Here

We had our first son circumcised but after reading some info on the subject and becoming more informed, #2 son is completely intact.
I wish I had learned sooner...

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

24. Wow!

Congrats on that decision. It bothers me that American parents aren't given complete information on that decision and in many cases are pressured to go the circ route without enough research.

It is my fervent hope that someday soon we will be like the UK and say "ok you know what? Doing that really accomplishes nothing and actually causes more harm than good, let's stop doing it". They found out nothing horrible happens so now they are a non-circing nation.

[elperromagico]

17. I believe that the United States is sadly lacking in the construction

of two-story outhouses. We cannot afford to have a "two-story outhouse gap"!!!

[IronLionZion]

18. I think all right and left wing lunatics should be sent to an island

somewhere and we can have a reality show to see who survives! That would get some great ratings! :P

[AlCzervik]

20. Non-agressive non-pushy liberal

real estate agent. Most of my coworkers are Bush supporters and very pushy. I am the only liberal except for the office manager.