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People who choose to be child free. Some people just don’t want kids, and that’s fine.
Hate is a powerful and complex feeling. Interestingly, there is no clear consensus among scholars about its exact nature. Some describe hate as an emotion, others see it as an attitude or sentiment, and still others regard it as a blend of anger, contempt, and disgust. While some researchers think hate is simply an extreme form of anger or dislike, many believe it to be a distinct and unique experience altogether.But why do we experience it? To find out,Bored Pandareached out toClara Pretus, a psychology professor and researcher in social neurosciences, and the director of theSocial Brain Lab.“We hate things that we perceive as posing an existential threat to us,” Pretus explains. “This could be a physical threat—something that puts our life at risk—or a symbolic threat, something that endangers our values and way of life.”She goes on to say, “Our response to hate is to either avoid or eliminate the object of our hate because we don’t believe it will ever stop being a threat. This is different from anger; when we’re angry at someone, we’re still giving them a second chance, believing they can change. With hate, the sense of danger is so strong that it activates our fight or flight response, preparing us to either attack or defend ourselves.”
Hate is a powerful and complex feeling. Interestingly, there is no clear consensus among scholars about its exact nature. Some describe hate as an emotion, others see it as an attitude or sentiment, and still others regard it as a blend of anger, contempt, and disgust. While some researchers think hate is simply an extreme form of anger or dislike, many believe it to be a distinct and unique experience altogether.
But why do we experience it? To find out,Bored Pandareached out toClara Pretus, a psychology professor and researcher in social neurosciences, and the director of theSocial Brain Lab.
“We hate things that we perceive as posing an existential threat to us,” Pretus explains. “This could be a physical threat—something that puts our life at risk—or a symbolic threat, something that endangers our values and way of life.”
She goes on to say, “Our response to hate is to either avoid or eliminate the object of our hate because we don’t believe it will ever stop being a threat. This is different from anger; when we’re angry at someone, we’re still giving them a second chance, believing they can change. With hate, the sense of danger is so strong that it activates our fight or flight response, preparing us to either attack or defend ourselves.”
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People who choose not to drink who aren’t recovering alcoholics or pregnant.People who do drink but have decided they don’t feel like drinking that night. Their reasoning being they simply don’t want to.
Changing your mind. People act like it’s a sign of weakness, but it actually shows growth. Admitting you’re wrong or seeing things differently is how you evolve, not something to be ashamed of.
He further explains, “One marked difference between love and hate is that, while love deactivates large parts of the cerebral cortex associated with judgment and reasoning, hate only deactivates a small area in the frontal cortex. This might seem surprising since hate can also be an all-consuming passion, like love. But in romantic love, the lover is often less critical, while in hate, the hater may become more judgmental, calculating moves to harm or seek revenge.”
Sleeping in. People act like you’re a useless member of society if you sleep past 10.
Sitting idle. I hate it when it’s labelled as “wasting time”. You need some time for your brain to slow off and just exist. It’s not a crime.
Spiders. They eat things you don’t want in your house. Try and leave them alone.
Pretus’s work focuses on how political extremism impacts decision-making, particularly in polarized environments. She studies how extreme social identities and moral values influence political beliefs, the spread of misinformation, and the willingness to engage in political violence.
Another aspect of her research explores the rise of hate crimes. While we understand some factors behind these crimes, what people perceive and experience as “hate” at a psychological level is still a gray area.
In one of herstudies, Pretus explored the role of morality in hate. Her team analyzed the language used on prominent hate websites and complaint forums, finding that hate sites contained more words related to morality, not just negativity, compared to the complaint forums.
“Morality guides our decisions and actions because it defines what we believe is right and wrong,” Pretus says. “Our moral values, like honesty, justice, and respecting traditions, are a big part of who we are. When someone acts in a way that threatens those values, it can spark hate because it feels like an existential threat to our identity. Hate then prepares us to either eliminate or escape from the source of that threat.”
“I would say Mondays,” she shares. “I’ve never hated Mondays, but maybe that’s because I really like my job.”
Fast food workers. Most of y’all have no idea how hard we actually work, or how horribly y’all treat us for no reason whatsoever.
Pineapple on pizza! It gets so much hate, but honestly, the sweet and salty combo is pretty solid. It’s not for everyone, but the amount of outrage it causes is way over the top for a simple pizza topping. Let people enjoy their food!
Transgender people. We’re not corrupting children or anything, that’s just the lie they’re trying to use to turn us into the latest political football.
Being kind. Kind people should be looked up to as a good example, not looked down on as “weak”.
Men who are in touch with their feelings and they express them. Men who are sensitive are constantly put down due to toxic masculinity. Both men and women s**t on guys who exteriorize their emotions uninhibitedly in a gentle kindhearted manner and deem them unmanly, describe them as too feminine, plus many other more grotesque words and phrases. And crying is viewed as a sign of weakness.Women have emotions. Men do too. It’s indisputable that all humans have emotions. High emotional availability is something that should absolutely not be seen as exclusive to any specific gender, age or race. It’s a universal human condition. It’s nothing to be ashamed of and NO ONE should be belittled or bullied for having or displaying completely valid and sincere emotions nor for possessing the ability to communicate them.
Cats and specifically how they’re often considered to be less affectionate than dogs! My kitty is a total sweetheart and is way more personable and affectionate than my dog was (to be clear, he wasn’t mean or anything, he was mostly just concerned with finding his next meal).
SkunksThey’re actually pretty cute and fun to watch if you don’t harass them.
Gen Z. There’s nothing wrong with them they’re just being young and immature because they ARE young. They’re not “doomed” again they’re being young and participating in fads just like you did. The stuff you did when you were their age was just as dumb, just as cringeworthy and made the older generations “lose faith” in. Then what happened? You grew up and matured.The stuff that’s catered towards them isn’t dumbed down or soulless or basic or mind numbing. It’s just catered towards a young demographic, which you are not. You aren’t the target audience, that’s why you don’t get it. You’re not meant to as it’s not for you.Millennials got the same hate, as did Gen X and Boomers and so on. And they all grew up, eventually Gen Z will and then everyone will hate on Gen Alpha for [damaging] whatever industries and being entitled and not knowing what real work is and whatever buzzwords people always use to hate on the latest generation of youths.Also while I’m at it, people “glued to their phones” there’s this weird assumption that if I or any other person under 40 is on their phone they’re just rotting their brain or dking around or are on social media. First of all everyone looks at their phones not just Gen Z and Millennials. Second of all a phone these days is an everything in one device. It’s a calender, it gives you the time, it gives you news, it allows you to send important emails, read books, look at timetables, write notes. Someone “glued to their phone” could be doing any of that kind of stuff.If you didn’t give people in the past st for constantly reading books, reading a newspaper, writing their schedule for the day. looking at their watch and so on, why are you giving people, particularly young people, s**t now for it? Because the platform they do that stuff has changed? Everyone still does that stuff. The only thing that’s changed is the platform: It’s all now on a phone. Think about that the next time you’re on a bus or subway and see everyone “glued to their phones”.
Honestly- overweight people. Not dating one is fine but the way people talk about us or treat is just mind blowing in the worst way. I’m a person with feelings not an ogre.
Other people’s interests. People love to just HATE things like they’re a movie hero with a vengeance. My boy, it literally doesn’t affect you, f*****g chill.
Androids. People with iphones think they have some diamond when most of the time they have a phone android has already had for years.
Bees! we will die out within like 10-20 years without bees!!!
Late-diagnosed autistic women.It’s become very chic to poop on “hOw tRenDy aUtisM Is lAteLy!!! Stupid TikTok making awkward a*****e women think they have something they don’t!”But like… girls and women have had autism just as much as men and boys have… they’ve just been horrendously under-diagnosed for decades, meaning we haven’t had access to resources like appropriate forms of therapy, much needed school and work accommodations… many of us were incorrectly diagnosed with mood disorders, with treatments which DO NOT WORK for autistics and often cause harm…So yeah, you tell ‘em - go berate these often traumatized and struggling women, who are finally getting access to the self-knowledge to better accommodate themselves!!! :(.
ADHD and the d***s that treat it, they are unbelievably helpful for a mental illness that people dont rly appreciate for how bad it can be.
Vegan food. It doesn’t taste as horrible as people make it out to be. And alot of “regular” food is vegan and people don’t realize that.
People in their 20s who choose to have pets instead of kids.
Brussels Sproutsthey can be quite delicious and nutritious.
It seems like when people imagine an adult who lives with their parents they just picture some unemployed unattractive balding fat guy who plays video games all day like what cartoons and sitcoms would have you believe. I’ve seen people literally raging in reddit posts about adult children who live at home with hundreds of people calling them “pieces of s**t” and “moochers” in the most casual way I’ve seen. Some of the adult children mentioned in the posts aren’t even 20 yet and expected to already know how to do everything on their own. It’s so weird to me that the first assumption people have is that they must be lazy and entitled or coddled, and not that they could be going through something mentally or need the right kind of guidance.
Picky eaters.People take it waaay the f**k too personally.
Guy Fieri. He actually does quite a bit of charity work!
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Vegetables.
Being a stay at home mom.hangry_yomom:Seriously! I’m so sick of people asking me, “what do you do all day?” Or people expecting me to have unlimited free time. I am so busy helping little humans grow. Also, shout out to stay at home dads, they get so much judgment from society.
Furries. they’re just people who dress up, i don’t get why they recieve like death threats and stuff over some cat ears.
Zipper mergingFfs sake people use up the lanes and zipper merge. Trust the experts - it’s moves traffic faster. .
Playing video games.You play video games for a couple hours? You’re lazy.You watch Netflix for a few hours? Normal and fine.At least video games have the ability to engage your brain and hand-eye coordination.
Taylor swift. I get the urge to make fun of her and her fan base, but at the same time, credit where credit is due.
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Comic sans. Yes it’s not the most pretty font of all time but. Its Really not That bad.
Kinks. We all got them. Very few are honest with them.
Customer service I believe working in customer service would make people more empathetic. It could solve a lot of problems.
Poor people. with us all you rich f***s would have to do everything yourself.
Shows made for kids. Too many people get waaaaay bent out of shape about tv, but I notice grown adults critiquing shows for children like they’re expecting it to be Shakespeare. It’s weird behavior.
Tofu. It only sucks when people try to use it replace everything. Mapo tofu is delicious, as is agedashi tofu.Edit: I forgot soondubu jjigae is a top five soup for me.
Oatmeal raisin cookies. Sometimes chocolate chip is just too cloying.
Liking popular things is hated on more than it should be. Enjoying mainstream trends doesn’t make someone’s tastes less valid, yet it’s often dismissed as being unoriginal.
Tootsie Rolls my beloved…
Self checkout, I will almost always walkout without what I want if there are queues and no self checkout, no way I’m waiting in line in 2024.
Law enforcement and military. It is sad that the media gets people hating police or security officers over the 1-2% instead of stressing how the over 97% are just out their truly trying to help. It is like if you have a bad teacher and hate them all or hate restaurant servers because one was rude or lazy, start hating all servers.
Politically incorrect jokes. The world needs to get a sense of humour and learn how to laugh at itself.
Nickelback. No, they’re notamazing, but neither are they the worst thing to happen to rock music. They put out a few bangers (“Photograph” not among them, though).
People who don’t like pets. People who like non-mammal pets.
Anchovies. Ever tried them with a block of sharp cheddar and crackers? Not bad at all.
Women wearing makeup. Not every woman looks like Alicia keys without makeup. And even she looks better with it than without it. As a man if it were socially acceptable for me to wear makeup to look better you better believe I would take full advantage of that. Makes no damn sense.
“Disney Adults” get so much hate and shame. I don’t see the problem with an adult enjoying something, and it makes me sad seeing them get ripped to shreds over a harmless interest/passion. Adults enjoying a theme park, character, or esthetic isn’t hurting anyone.
Yellow starbursts. Best flavor hands down.
People annoyed at climate/oil protestors when they’re trying to help us avoid climate disaster.
Marvel movies! The majority of them are really good contrary to what some critics say….
Those little orange and white Halloween candies, they’re absolutely delicious but everyone seems to dislike them lolGive em over here! I’ll eat em!
A bit late to the party here but I find have encountered (to me) surprising amount of hatred with mathematics and statistics. I would think that subjects such as this would be very neutral as they are just tools like language or anything else, but I guess the very neutral and impersonal/cold hard facts nature of them can make people very hostile.
The Big Bang Theory. Yeah, I agree it’s gone on too long and not that good, but I think it’s relatively inoffensive for the most part.
Smash mouth. It’s not their fault the songs were super popular and over used in every movie.
Driving a prius, there’s about a million different hybrid cars on the road, but for some reason the prius still gets all the hate.
The word “moist.” I think everyone hates it because the internet said to, ten years ago.Edit: if you’re going to comment some variation of “I’ve hated the word for longer than ten years” or “only women hate that word bc women bad”, please spare us, it’s already been said dozens of times.
Clowns, we’ve vilified them in popular culture and so many people have heebie-jeebies about them now because of the change in how they are perceived. Before it was the minority that were scared of clowns, now, it seems that any clown is fair game to be considered creepy. It saddens me and I wonder how much damage it has done to the reputation, careers and the future of clowns and clowning.
Carrot Top - Met him a few times. Was really a chill dude and in our brief conversations he was funny and smart.
Hot take: The Twilight Saga. I think it’s a fun book to read even if it’s not well written.
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