r/HonestHotTakes 18d ago

Transgender topic [Please read]

366 Upvotes

The topic of transgender people has completely flooded this sub and that’s not what we’re here for. We are here for healthy discussions about hot takes. Wanting to take rights away from a group of people is not a hot take. Trans people are people who are just doing their own thing. Some have faked being transgender for certain reasons, but most others are genuine.

A man pretending to be gay in order to get close to women is not a good man, but he also doesn’t represent the entirety of the gay community. Same with the trans cases.

There will be people who you find stupid and weird and disgusting, but you have no right to say despicable things to them. Legally, yes you have free speech. But have some morals and decorum.

Transgender posts are now restricted to this space only. Do not report people who calmly say they disagree with your beliefs. Only report those who are insulting.


r/HonestHotTakes Jul 08 '26

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r/HonestHotTakes 8h ago

A big obstacle to “post-racial” society is self-alienating minorities who blame everyone else for their own bigotry

126 Upvotes

A lot of people who aren’t white mainly feel comfortable with people of their own race, and this leads them to alienating themselves in places where they’re not the majority.

But because they believe they can’t be bigoted, they think it’s everyone else’s fault.

As a result, integration is more difficult.


r/HonestHotTakes 3h ago

serious hot take Women using their sons love/emotions to compensate for the lack of attention received from their man's is weird and should be called out

34 Upvotes

See it all the time with single women of women who don't have a good relationship with their dude, then turn around and look for that lack of love and attention in their son and out their son in a weird emotional husband role.

It's so common and should be called out. And no, it's not normal. One thing is to love your son. Another is to put them in an emotional love role because your dude doesn't give you love.


r/HonestHotTakes 3h ago

You will get away with a lot of creepy behavior if you’re hot enough

24 Upvotes

As a man/woman, usually. If you’re hot enough you can say and do shit ugly / average people would be jailed for.

Genuine question: why do you think that is

And don’t be stupid and say oh it’s not like this all the time. OF COURSE ITS NOT NOTHING IS 100% THE CASE ALL TIME so please save that stupid comment to yourself


r/HonestHotTakes 4h ago

casual hot take Women are equally addicted to p*rn they just call it smut.

24 Upvotes

Smut serves the same psychosexual role it does in porn. The only difference is one is visual.

Also you'll notice that erotic novel consumption went up around the same time OF did in covid. And women are the main consumers.

I rest my case ✋🤚


r/HonestHotTakes 5h ago

casual hot take the "gun and ball gamer" critique is entirely valid.

22 Upvotes

its entirely valid to critique someone whos entire catalogue and play experience consists in what is essentially the same 2 games reskinned, specifically when that person then tries to turn and critique the quality of a game in a style they downright refuse to play because they can't sit through a 5 hour story, because it ISNT a "shoot the ball in the hoop" or "fire a gun" game.

TLDR: my opinion about Clair Obscur or The Last of Us isnt going to be swayed by a guy who only plays COD and FIFA and is mad because the games made him think.


r/HonestHotTakes 5h ago

Long term, residential psychiatric facilities need to be brought back. ASAP.

21 Upvotes

No, I’m not talking about the old school, abusive asylums where anybody and anyone who didn’t do what they were told got banged up for life and locked up in cages.

I’m talking about long term residential, secure facilities for those experiencing chronic psychosis. Schizophrenia and Bipolar (who experience psychosis) lend themselves to this particularly.

I’m not sure where the disconnect is, but we have to stop expecting people experiencing severe, chronic, psychotic mental illness to function as a regular and functioning member of society. It doesn’t help anyone. We don’t expect people with Alzheimer’s/ dementia to remember medications, appointments, how to dress, what to say, work. We understand they’re implicitly not capable.

A person suffering from a mental illness that causes life long, chronic psychosis is the same. It’s no good telling them to just ‘try harder’, go to appointments, take medication. They haven’t got capacity - without guidance or care, they’re not going to be able to do this consistently, if at all. ‘Care in the community’ is not fit for these patients. The impact of unchecked psychotic illness is severe. It doesn’t just pose major risk to the person, but inadvertently others around them. The care required in terms of monitoring/ psychological support/ safeguarding is too extensive for many family and friends.

I’m saying this as a person with long standing psychotic bipolar, before anyone gets up my ass. The demands/ expectations placed on us to work, function, maintain, perform, manage are unreasonable and not feasible. Were taken into hospital for short term stays, kicked back out and expected to go back to work next Monday. Drive. Pay bills. Take medication. Make multiple appointments whilst working. Shamed for not working.

Long term facilities need to be brought back.


r/HonestHotTakes 13h ago

casual hot take i really don’t care how long i’ve been with my partner, the second they buy a motorcycle i’m leaving

59 Upvotes

idc if we’re married or have kids, i’m not sticking around for it, and imo it’s actually 10x more selfish to pick up that hobby knowing you have kids at home waiting for you.

the most i can do is express my anxiety and heavily discourage them from doing it, but at the end of the day i cannot control a grown person’s actions. i’m the very last person to ever give an ultimatum in a relationship but at that point you would have to choose between me or the bike. way too much can go wrong and the risks HEAVILY outweigh the rewards.

and i don’t care about life insurance either. i would rather you be alive and healthy with me than be compensated for a 100% preventable tragic accident. no amount of money is worth losing the love of my life

no matter how focused YOU are on the road, there are hella people out there who aren’t paying attention and all it takes is one person on their phone cutting you off to either permanently disable you or end your life completely. while you’re out having fun riding at 100mph, i’d be sitting at home going crazy with constant anxiety and stress and that’s not something im willing to deal with ever.


r/HonestHotTakes 19h ago

Millennial parents should be taking more heat for the literacy crisis because their kids are the ones who can’t read.

178 Upvotes

People complain about IPad kids as if the children procured the IPads themselves and also act as if there isn’t an adult in the house who could… take it away from them.

They act like kids simply just don’t read because they don’t want to, but I think it’s that a lot of parents just aren’t caring to teach them or read to them.


r/HonestHotTakes 5h ago

casual hot take Clancy trial

11 Upvotes

If Clancy gets acquitted or a hung jury we have failed as a society.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

serious hot take Anti-Vaxxers are selfish

713 Upvotes

Unless you have a legitimate medical reason to NOT receive a vaccine (i.e: allergies, conflicting medications, etc) you are extremely selfish, ESPECIALLY if you don’t get your own kids vaccinated because of what you were brainwashed to believe. There’s always a chance for side effects to literally anything (even your precious essential oils or other home “remedies”). IMO not getting your child vaccinated unless there is a legitimate medical reason is and should be considered child abuse. There shouldn’t be children dying from diseases and illnesses that are easily prevented by getting vaccinated. You’re not just putting yourself and your kids at risk, you’re putting EVERYONE at risk. That includes elderly people, pregnant women, children, people with compromised immune systems, etc. At-risk groups shouldn’t have to suffer or go into hiding because you don’t want to do what is medically appropriate and necessary.


r/HonestHotTakes 8h ago

casual hot take people victimise every bad social interaction

15 Upvotes

people act like every normal bit of social friction is a major psychological threat. like if a coworker is just being a standard annoying micromanager, people don't just call them annoying anymore, they call it a toxic abusive environment and talk about needing a trauma recovery plan. we stopped letting people just be difficult or selfish and started treating every regular bad interaction as proof that someone is violating our core safety, which just makes everyone terrified of normal human interaction.

Not saying that the person isn't bding a bum, but can we STOP labelling every small interaction as a psychological heartbreak.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

serious hot take no fault divorce was as good for men as it was for women.

606 Upvotes

Passport bros/weirdo incels love to tout around this idea that no-fault divorce was a horrible thing that ruined modern marriage, that women taking half of the assets and leaving is the worst thing that could possibly happen in a marriage.

Women just used to kill their husbands when they were tired of them lmao. your great grandma didnt divorce great grandpa because she didnt have to, he met the back of a cast iron skillet when he fucked up. All that no-fault divorce did was give women a way out when their husbands started cheating or throwing plates or punching walls.


r/HonestHotTakes 1h ago

Tipping Culture

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Servers that complain about people not tipping are usually the shittiest servers. You don’t automatically get 20% for showing up, if you don’t like your pay go learn a marketable skill and change jobs.


r/HonestHotTakes 9h ago

Lindsay Clancy Is

13 Upvotes

Provided Lindsay Clancy did kill her children (there's some that believed she didnt this is not for them despite the evidence. And admission to guilt.) There is no extenuating circumstance where she should not spend the rest of her life in prison. Under no circumstance is she fit for a civil society after having killed her three kids. That's it. Prison. Mental disorder and that is very clearly what this is is no excuse for killing your children And to add it was premeditated. She planned it.


r/HonestHotTakes 8h ago

If you're not ready for your kid to be different and go through lows, you're not ready to be a parent.

8 Upvotes

Especially if while they're going through their low, you dismiss their feelings. Setting them up for failure and to think that's normal btw.

I'm not doing much effort to reel you guys into my side and that's cause I respect your opinion and willing to hear y'all out of you think otherwise.


r/HonestHotTakes 8h ago

Hava nagila is a good song

7 Upvotes

Istg I'm not rage baiting, it's very catchy


r/HonestHotTakes 22h ago

NUCLEAR hot take Women have more power to not allow bums to impregnated them

92 Upvotes

I'm excluding abuse, power imbalance, and surprise changes later in the relationship that wasn't expected or notable from the jump.

Im talking about the women who knew the guy was a bum, loser, and had no signs of providing or living for himself only.

I will never understand or empathize with women who actively allow guys who they know are losers, impregnate them, then decide to stay and have MORE kids then to then decide the guy is a loser!

You literally hold the key to life, and you decide years later to pop up and say hey this guy sucks. But at that point, it's 100% your fault for allowing this loser access to your body. So yes, your body is your choice but bear the consequence by not screaming dead beat like he wasn't a loser from the start.

It's worse when the girl has confidence to know she has options and still settles for a loser and expects the world to empathize with her.


r/HonestHotTakes 19h ago

serious hot take We infantalize deaf and hard of hearing people.

37 Upvotes

Companies and content creators have to stop editing closed captioning to not display curse words. It is incredibly annoying to watch a video and see the bad words edited or taken out. It would be one thing to take them out of an edited video where all audio has also been redacted, but to see the video say fuck and the the captioning say fluke or flip is annoying. Honestly I find it infantalizeing and disrespectful.

Deaf and hard of hearing people are adults and they should be able to read the content of a video without y'all taking away their autonomy. If they aren't old enough to read it as is then they probably shouldn't be watching the video anyway.

I want to be clear I am not deaf I'm just a person who has trouble processing audio without captions. There are people who can't hear at all and to take away their ability to see curse words is controlling and honestly a bit weird. Deaf and hard of hearing people deserve the right to view content as it was intended and not have it be edited as though they are children who should not be in control of what they view.


r/HonestHotTakes 1m ago

serious hot take The death penalty should be brought back.

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Im just reading the contents of the David case and i wonder how this guy is still alive, but obviously my point extends to any case of rape.

Cause that is an act that has no rational excuse in my mind, there are many illegal acts people get penalized for that i find in some scenarios completely okay to do, like shoplifting in smaller crimes and murder thats justified.

But i truly dont think the rape of a person male or female is such a horrid act there is so justification.

As an agnostic atheist i don’t believe in hell and i do want these freaks to suffer but if you have enough power even jail isnt an issue id rather not walk this earth with them on it.


r/HonestHotTakes 3h ago

Actually there have been really good kids movies that have come out recently or are in production its that people are too stuck on nostalgia and a hater mindset.

1 Upvotes

I think theres been some good animated movies for kids that have come out in recent years, its just that everyone is too hateful to give any original movies a try and also because they want everything to cater to them or else its bullshit.

Im talking about movies like Turning Red, KPDH or even Encanto or Elemental, movies made for children that I personally think are really good especially for kids standards. And most of the people hating on these movies are Grown people or teenager boys( teenager boys specifically for turning red) and they do it because crazy surprise children's movies dont cater to them. Theyre also the same people who scream about how theyre tired of getting adaptations or sequels but none are willing to support any new project.

I wish more people actually gave new movies a try instead of just hating based on short clips, people hate on things as soon as a trailer or announcement comes out without ever checking the movies out first.


r/HonestHotTakes 21m ago

casual hot take Life is much more strange than anyone really thinks about. This should not be happening right now. People act like all of this normal, its actually insanity.

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Well I guess its whatever lemme go eat some skittles, watch youtube and not think about it.


r/HonestHotTakes 22m ago

"Porn addiction" is just a nice way of saying "masturbation addiction"

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I'm not really sure why this is the case, but it seems much more socially acceptable to talk about "porn addiction" than it is "masturbation addiction", and that's the hot take. I understand, and fully concede, that porn is certainly involved in the addiction, and that some people specifically use porn during each urgent scratch of the addiction, but it's being used as the fall guy for the deeper actual issue of masturbation addiction. It's not like the addiction was invented when porn came along. Plenty of tales of people masturbating endlessly on park benches and hunched over in dark alleys during the middle ages.

It's still embarrassing, but somehow it's much easier to look my boss in the eyes and say "sir, I'm sorry. I have a porn addiction" rather than "sir, I'm sorry. I'm addicted to masturbating in the office". Just sounds better.


r/HonestHotTakes 1d ago

Life-endangering or hurting your child in any ways for religious or other cultural reasons should be a crime.

191 Upvotes

Mutilating a child because your religion says so should be a crime. Circumcising a child should be a crime. Not allowing your child to receive a needed blood-transfusion or any needed medical procedure should be a crime. Not vaccinating your child should be a crime.

If the law is so pro-life that a woman cannot have full body autonomy if pregnant, then neither should a parent or any responsible adult have the right to put a child through any pain because of the adult's own beliefs.

If the law has a side, be it the good or the bad one, let it at least be consistent.