It's okay... to not like things...

[anagramofbrat]

So I'm borrowing firinel's idea to just spit out a list of things I don't like. Mostly because I tend to be the person that talks myself out of not liking things, especially if I'm trying to accommodate other people. Also see fear of other people's judgeyfaces. But anyway, I rather like this idea of judgement free dislike - both on my end (which I admittedly need to work on) and on other people's.

Here's firinel's original intro text:

Awhile ago I was bummed because it seemed like people get really defensive and weird when I say I don't like/practice/observe/whatever certain things which are culturally seen as norms or givens, as if I'm judging them because they like/practice/observe/whatever, when really all I'm (mostly) doing is choosing something different for myself. The person I was vocalizing this too was lightly ribbing me, and I ended up compiling a list, that actually ended up really amusing me about it all, and I stopped being bummed.

Here's the list of things that I don't like:

- the words "blog" "carbs" "froyo" "Aspie" "trigger" and "staycation."
- most raw fruit (texture issues)
- Eggs, unless scrambled or part of an omelette
- the sound of other people chewing/eating
- seafood, other than straight up fish, and even then not the kind with the bones
- watching myself on video or hearing my recorded voice
- beer I can see through. I can tolerate stouts and porters.
- hand sanitizer
- erasable pens
- dogs
- kids (for much the same reasons as dogs)
- uncomfortable shoes, especially flip flops. And uggs
- garbage disposals
- people that treat your opinion as absolutely wrong if they don't agree with it
- reality dance/talent/makeover shows
- films/TV/books fucking up details on New York geography or how the subway works/looks
- loud farting anywhere but your own damn house
- "letting it mellow"
- most air freshener
- wash cloths
- plastic cutlery
- Anything reminding me of the growing hipster plague in Brooklyn. "BK" "Billyburg" and "Dumbo" are not places.
- spicy food
- "Occupy (person/place/thing)"
- smelling like onion/garlic for several hours after eating it
- Internet Momzombies
- gluten-free people that don't have celiac disease. See also loud vegans.
- see also anybody trying to tell me what I should or shouldn't eat for any reason unless you're my doctor
- Diets
- anything involving artificial sweetener
- (substance)-free! versions of food/drinks
- rape as female character development
- helicopter parents
- "Why isn't there White Entertainment Television/White History Month? That's racist!"
- stale cigarette smell
- Mother's Day
- Christmas carols/decorations/sales before Thanksgiving. Actually all holiday creep, unless it gets me discount candy sooner.
- Sex being more vilified than violence
- Anonymous
- any sort of sausage-y product with visible chunks. Pastrami/salami especially.
- Drinking milk straight
- temperatures below 25 and above 85
- thigh chafe under skirts
- ads at the movies
- people who talk through movies. This includes kids and their non-shushing parents. See also texting.
- clowns
- most top 40 music
- wading in the ocean above my knees, or the deep ends of swimming pools. (Yes, I can swim, I just don't like deep water.)
- absolute darkness/quiet
- car radio nazis
- pet clothing/costumes
- armchair activism
- cognitive dissonance/intentional hypocrisy
- unclean fingernails
- being made to feel stupid
- grudge-holding (even though I do it)
- jewelry ads. "Every kiss begins with Kay" "He went to Jared" and their ilk.
- having my name yelled above a certain volume (shrill vowel... yeeeeegh)
- bad drivers
- wearing pads. Also devotees of alternative menstrual products.
- camera shyness
- "stranger danger" and other incredibly paranoid child protection measures
- fanaticism
- juinior mints, jordan almonds, spree and smarties
- peanut butter in anything except PB&Js and Reeses' cups.
- nuts in baked goods
- vegetables in baked goods (notable exceptions: carrot cake, pumpkin/sweet potato anything)
- crunchy cookies
- Elmo
- Early adopters
- being humored
- intentional helplessness
- Operating system snobbery
- most cartoons made after 1994
- perfectly "faced" bookshelves anywhere but a library/bookstore

I'm sure there's more, but I need to stop somewhere.

Comments

[nounsandverbs]

Hearing those squeaky-voiced female singers going, "It can only be JAAAAAAAAAAAREEEEEEEEED!" makes me want to stab myself in the ear with a rusty butter knife.

[emilytheslayer.livejournal.com]

Oh, that video. Cracks me up every time.

[twirlgrrl.livejournal.com]

I love this idea.

Just one from me today: Katy Perry. There, I said it.

[retsuko.livejournal.com]

So much word to most of these.

Re: perfectly "faced" bookshelves anywhere but a library/bookstore, I despise decorating magazines that urge people to buy books not based on what the books are, but simply for color and size, put them on a shelf, and then ignore them. Why not just buy multi-colored bricks or large LEGOs?

Re: "Why isn't there White Entertainment Television/White History Month? That's racist!": I wish that I could express my horror that someone actually said anything that stupid, but unfortunately, I know exactly what you mean. I've had to explain to several straight friends and students that Every Goddamn Day is Straight Pride Day and therefore, there's no need to specially honor straight people. So much hate. D:

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

Hmm. Now I want to design a wall safe that is cleverly hidden in a set of ancient World Book Encyclopedias. Or a charging station, or something.

[queencallipygos.livejournal.com]

True story:

I was in my dorm room one weekend back in college, and heard someone out in the hallway talking quite loud, at length, to themselves. I peered out the peephole. One of my next-room-over neighbors was sitting on the floor, a chemistry book open in front of him, and he was loudly saying - to himself -that he hated chemistry, he hated carbon atoms, and he hated studying to memorize them.

I opened the door and poked my head out. "You know what I hate?" I said. "I hate political science. I hate trying to learn about Soviet foreign policy when there isn't a Soviet Union any more."

"Ooh, know what I hate?" He said, closing the book. "When you can't light your bunsen burner. Oh, and I also hate NOT BEING ABLE TO STUDY IN MY ROOM...."

"I hate that too - but what's even worse is when someone's left their clothes in the dryer downstairs and you need to use one and you don't want to touch their stuff...."

"Oh MAN I hate that! How about when they're out of Fruit loops in the cafeteria?"

"OHMIGOD YES!...."

And we ended up sitting there on the floor in the hallway for AN HOUR, talking about things we hated, and it was a BLAST. We were right near the elevator, so whenever the elevator doors opened and anyone got off, we greeted them very cheerfully - "Hi! We're hating things! What do you hate?"

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

Internet Momzombies

Do I even fucking want to know?

[anagramofbrat.livejournal.com]

I answered in your post. :)

[kittikattie.livejournal.com]

THOSE PEOPLE SUCK.

UPDATE YOUR FACEBOOK WITH MORE THAN TALES OF YOUR SPROGGINS.