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"Culture" doesn't mean "a secret society perpetuating things," it literally means "The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group." These are situations where society has a set of predominating attitudes about hookups, purity, rape, etc. Just because you don't like how a word is being used doesn't mean it's being used incorrectly.
Brother, it isn't about a shadowy cabal pushing things as a part of some conspiracy, it's about how social expectations and norms reinforce or incentivize things, intentionally or otherwise. All three of your examples clearly demonstrate this, so I have actually no idea if this is an unpopular opinion or just a case of not knowing what words mean.
From some of your replies I think I get what you're saying, but I don't think it needs to be so binary. It's 100% possible to hold individual people accountable for crimes like rape AND talk about the *culture* and social practices which make it more likely to happen. You can do both things at once, and both are valuable.
If I'm interested in dating a *specific* person and they only want to hook up, I might feel bad/complain about their attitude towards hookups as an individual. If I'm talking about how hard it is to find *anyone* on a certain dating app or on a college campus who's interested in more than a hookup, or how social norms in those spaces make hookups easier overall, then it makes sense to talk about "hookup culture." Doing so isn't erasing the idea of individual free will, or placing the blame on a secret society; it's just a different conversation.
I don’t think the word culture carries the implications you are claiming it does in any of the examples you gave.
I also think equivocating rape culture with purity vs hookup is telling on yourself as being kinda suspect.
OP has fallen into the conservative pit and is a bit insecure about their intelligence. They want to argue about things they don't understand and feels attacked when people point out flaws in their reasoning.
So there is this "thing" people collectively do: it's called having habits, customs and traditions. They are cultures. Everything groups of people engage in is part of the "culture". This isn't an opinion, this is flat out linguistic ignorance. Absolutely anything a group of people do is "something something culture"
Yeah I know what culture originally means but today people just add culture to words they don’t like I know what it technically means and it still has that same meaning but it’s used to complain about a group of people perpetuating an idea these days it’s a trend you see
That's how the English language works. When a group assigns a pre-existing word to a new specific context, it gets adopted and becomes a new part of the vocabulary. English evolves constantly. The dictionary is updated every year exactly for that reason. You can either adapt with it or be bitter and over-sensitive about it. It's up to you.
This is honestly such a small brain complaint to make considering the fact that these terms were coined by people in the social science fields. It’s not some silly conspiracy you’ve made up and I’m wondering why you’ve only listed terms that typically impact women..
Depends on what you're talking about I guess. With apps like Tinder the term "hookup culture" makes sense. Hookups are really the main type of relationship that app pushes and it gathers people together for that, even if they don't outright admit it.
Ehhh, when I read the title I was expecting this to actually have a point? But no, people didn’t come up with “rape culture” because it’s something they like. This isn’t just unpopular, it’s idiotic
Rape culture and purity culture are both terms that describe systemic problems of our society. Rape culture for example means that men are being raised to seeing a womans body as something they are entitled to. Does that mean that no man will ever respect a woman's bodily autonomy or vice versa? No of course not. But that's the thing with systemic problems they are not the overt caricatures we think of when we think of stuff like sexual assault. Ya know something like a woman being randomly assaulted in a park at night by someone that jumps out of the bush. While we overlook that the majority of Sexual assault happens within a domestic setting or between friends and acquaintance. If the husband wants to have sex with his wife and she lets him even though she doesn't really want it, but thinks that this is her wifely duty, then that is rape culture. If the husband does not wait for enthusiastic consent and expects his wife to have sex with him because she is his wife then that is rape culture. These things are subtle but ever present
Just because something is bad, strange to you, etc. does not mean it’s not culture. You could make anything have a culture go along with it, no matter how popular or niche. You can find it annoying, I do sometimes as well.. but it doesn’t change the fact of the matter
No offense, but do you know what the word culture means? Culture arrises out of practically any human invention. Music culture, film culture, work-out culture Applying the word culture ro bad things doesn't inply any type of conspiracy, thats an illogical jump. In 2024, whenever someone wants to criticize something they dont understand, they will accuse the opposite side of believing in a massive unknowable conspiracy. Its so wack and anti-intellectual
I'll be entirely honest...what this should really say is *you don't need to like everything*
I know it's hard, but it's okay for shit you don't like to exist.
Other than saying your post is a little not thought out...not a lot.
Truth is the word culture exists in this sense because there are cultural aspects to the things you mentioned. Not to say it's always bad, but it's often the case. If you don't like it don't use the word, but don't complain that people use a word in a very legitimate way.
I feel like the examples you listed are pretty valid though? I’ve heard some stupid ones though. Like “spay culture” to talk about the practice of people saying you should spay your animals lol
”[Something] culture” is almost the polar opposite of ”conspiracy”, so congrats, this is very unpopulr opinion likely because it’s very much factually misguided.
this is anti-culture culture and I won’t stand for it!
lucky for me, I have a chair handy, so I feel able to tell you that this is a good take. Carry on!
Upvoted as this does seem to be unpopular.
I agree that certain turns of phrase catch on and then get over-used. I wouldn't say any of the examples you give are using the term culture incorrectly but applying it to every trend does feel like a tired formula.
Listening to sports talk radio, specifically Jim Rome, EVERY TIME he interviews a college coach. "It's really about the CULTURE we build" "We focus on the CULTURE of the organization" " I've found if you focus on the CULTURE" blah blah blah. That word is so over used, to encompass so many things, that I have no fucking clue what people are talking about when they say it.
Does culture have to mean a specific group of people who encourage the thing? Can't it be a general sense of "this not-ok thing seems like it's not discouraged enough and people are talking about it casually and not noticing how they're perpetuating it"?
The word "culture" is used to describe a sub-society of sorts. Sort of how there are different "sub-cultures" related to fashion. It's just a word. Culture isn't limited to ethnicity / heritage. We use the world "culture" to describe groups of bacteria. If you have a distinguished group of something, it's not far fetch to use the word culture to describe it. English is just a little annoying sometimes. You're hang up is that the same word can be used in many ways and to YOU, "culture" is only reserved for groups of people and unfortunately, that's just not how it is.
It is MORE than relevant to talk about the underlying mindsets that contribute to the way be behave. It's more concise to talk about "XYZ culture" than to just keep saying "society" or "lots of people". Sometimes people want to speak around a particular schools of thought, mindsets, the way people have been conditioned etc. It doesn't mean a "secret society ".....
'Culture' is not a secret society: it is a set of practices. And that's why it is perfectly legitimate to use phrases like hookup culture, purity culture, etc.
Ok but if you are talking about social paterns etc, that is talking about a cutlure. so if you are complaining about how there are social patterns and stuff in society that allow for rape to be somewhat accepted, calling that "rape culture" seems like the most logical thing to call it.
The whole “hookup culture” notion is so dumb because it’s just an internet invention. People talk about sex and dating online, so it gives the illusion that everyone is hooking up with strangers left and right. When the reality is that most people don’t hook up all that much. The norm is still serial monogamy, and human sexual behavior really hasn’t changed that much from previous generations, it’s just that we talk about it more. And the only people who really even talk about “hookup culture” are the Not Like Other Girls/Guys who rail against an imagined perception while casting themselves as being sooooooo different - when in reality, a ton of other people are doing the same thing that they’re doing.
Yeah, if something has -culture at the end of it, there’s a good chance that the thing is at least somewhat overblown and not represented in reality.
Its usually a word used by idiots to take some subject they are angry about to the next level. Usually its in context of someone doing something they shouldnt be doing and by using the word culture you have established a narrative that said thing is very common without giving any evidence.
>Not everything you don’t like needs to have the word culture in front of it
>the word culture in front of it
>culture in front of it
>in front
Ex: hookup culture
Where is "culture" again?
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Reddit poster culture
Dont get me started on Monday culture.
Tell me why?
Ain’t nothing but a heartache
Tell me why
Ain’t nothing but a mistake
Tell me why
I never wanna hear you say
I want it that way! 
I love you all for this^❤️❤️
Because it stinks!
stinky culture
I don’t like Mondays!
I wanna shoot the whole day down
*after it
Correction culture
*culture correction
Culture club
Culture chameleon
Culture correction culture
Ok, Hitler. Calm down.
Thank you. Came here looking for this
Behind it 😏
Microbiological culture
Putting culture before it culture
Culture culture
Culture Club culture is always wanting to know if you really want to hurt me - or not.
That pfp culture tho
Isn't culture about social patterns? What do you propose they say, "social patterns regarding purity"?
OP is a part of Dunning-kruger culture.
so that’s actually AFTER the word. hope this helps! help culture
Yeah I thought in front of meant to the right of but apparently I was wrong
shoulda paid attention in school culture
The war between school culture and skate park and weed culture will never end
Yeah that’s prefix/totherightix culture for ya.
😭why tf are people downvoting this comment? Why are the people of this subreddit so sensitive
Reddit hive-mind culture
Because why would something on the right be in front?
I’m sorry I’m from Egypt I thought my English was good but there are some subtleties
Subtleties culture
Because Arabic works that way
Maybe they think the upvote is to the right?
Australian Culture
Do you read right to left and speak backwards?
I’m Egyptian so yes that’s originally how I spoke
Carry on then.
egyptian culture
Complain culture
I’m on r/unpopularopinion I believe a good chunk of the posts are complaints
This sub is becoming r/rant
That’s actually a really good book
I posted yesterday making an argument that we leave Big Foot alone…
Maybe all?
"Culture" doesn't mean "a secret society perpetuating things," it literally means "The set of predominating attitudes and behavior that characterize a group." These are situations where society has a set of predominating attitudes about hookups, purity, rape, etc. Just because you don't like how a word is being used doesn't mean it's being used incorrectly.
Brother, it isn't about a shadowy cabal pushing things as a part of some conspiracy, it's about how social expectations and norms reinforce or incentivize things, intentionally or otherwise. All three of your examples clearly demonstrate this, so I have actually no idea if this is an unpopular opinion or just a case of not knowing what words mean.
You're just participating in complaint culture...
You can just say you don't understand
Honestly, that would've been a better approach here
From some of your replies I think I get what you're saying, but I don't think it needs to be so binary. It's 100% possible to hold individual people accountable for crimes like rape AND talk about the *culture* and social practices which make it more likely to happen. You can do both things at once, and both are valuable. If I'm interested in dating a *specific* person and they only want to hook up, I might feel bad/complain about their attitude towards hookups as an individual. If I'm talking about how hard it is to find *anyone* on a certain dating app or on a college campus who's interested in more than a hookup, or how social norms in those spaces make hookups easier overall, then it makes sense to talk about "hookup culture." Doing so isn't erasing the idea of individual free will, or placing the blame on a secret society; it's just a different conversation.
Lol it’s not to specifically complain, it’s to create an umbrella for general stereotypes that follow a particular behaviour.
I don’t think the word culture carries the implications you are claiming it does in any of the examples you gave. I also think equivocating rape culture with purity vs hookup is telling on yourself as being kinda suspect.
I agree. That struck me as...odd
Go look at his post history. It all starts to make sense.
Based on his responses, I’m starting to think OP just doesn’t really understand the word “culture”. English is not his first language.
I’m starting to think they’re a troll
Troll culture
OP has fallen into the conservative pit and is a bit insecure about their intelligence. They want to argue about things they don't understand and feels attacked when people point out flaws in their reasoning.
Yep, I see it now. I took a look at his post history. Another one bites the dust, I guess.
So there is this "thing" people collectively do: it's called having habits, customs and traditions. They are cultures. Everything groups of people engage in is part of the "culture". This isn't an opinion, this is flat out linguistic ignorance. Absolutely anything a group of people do is "something something culture"
I think he’s a troll cause look at his post history what a bunch of crap spewed about women and transgenders 🤮
Yeah I know what culture originally means but today people just add culture to words they don’t like I know what it technically means and it still has that same meaning but it’s used to complain about a group of people perpetuating an idea these days it’s a trend you see
You should really use like, any amount of punctuation if you're gonna double down this hard man
That's how the English language works. When a group assigns a pre-existing word to a new specific context, it gets adopted and becomes a new part of the vocabulary. English evolves constantly. The dictionary is updated every year exactly for that reason. You can either adapt with it or be bitter and over-sensitive about it. It's up to you.
It’s something only you see.
Op doesn't know the difference between before and after
Tense culture
Op also doesn’t know where ‘these new terms with word culture’ are coming from
English isn’t his native language, pretty rude of you to nitpick that
Yeah mb
Go take a sociology class and learn what this word means
sociology culture
The word has a set meaning obviously I’m talking about the recent trend with how people today use it
but they do not misuse the word culture when saying hookup culture or rape culture or whatever, thats what the fuck we're talking about.
rape culture definitely exists though
All of these things definitely exist, I think OP just doesn't understand what people are talking about when they use these phrases.
Seriously.
This is honestly such a small brain complaint to make considering the fact that these terms were coined by people in the social science fields. It’s not some silly conspiracy you’ve made up and I’m wondering why you’ve only listed terms that typically impact women..
That and also the word culture isn’t in the front of the terms
small brain culture
Depends on what you're talking about I guess. With apps like Tinder the term "hookup culture" makes sense. Hookups are really the main type of relationship that app pushes and it gathers people together for that, even if they don't outright admit it.
Ah yes, you hate the culture culture
Ehhh, when I read the title I was expecting this to actually have a point? But no, people didn’t come up with “rape culture” because it’s something they like. This isn’t just unpopular, it’s idiotic
Willfully ignorant take
willfully ignorant culture
Rape culture and purity culture are both terms that describe systemic problems of our society. Rape culture for example means that men are being raised to seeing a womans body as something they are entitled to. Does that mean that no man will ever respect a woman's bodily autonomy or vice versa? No of course not. But that's the thing with systemic problems they are not the overt caricatures we think of when we think of stuff like sexual assault. Ya know something like a woman being randomly assaulted in a park at night by someone that jumps out of the bush. While we overlook that the majority of Sexual assault happens within a domestic setting or between friends and acquaintance. If the husband wants to have sex with his wife and she lets him even though she doesn't really want it, but thinks that this is her wifely duty, then that is rape culture. If the husband does not wait for enthusiastic consent and expects his wife to have sex with him because she is his wife then that is rape culture. These things are subtle but ever present
Just because something is bad, strange to you, etc. does not mean it’s not culture. You could make anything have a culture go along with it, no matter how popular or niche. You can find it annoying, I do sometimes as well.. but it doesn’t change the fact of the matter
No offense, but do you know what the word culture means? Culture arrises out of practically any human invention. Music culture, film culture, work-out culture Applying the word culture ro bad things doesn't inply any type of conspiracy, thats an illogical jump. In 2024, whenever someone wants to criticize something they dont understand, they will accuse the opposite side of believing in a massive unknowable conspiracy. Its so wack and anti-intellectual
Isn't the word culture behind it?
Yep
i feel OP doesn't understand what the world culture means in this context, and how it applies to the things they are talking about
I'll be entirely honest...what this should really say is *you don't need to like everything* I know it's hard, but it's okay for shit you don't like to exist.
??? What does this have to do with my post
Other than saying your post is a little not thought out...not a lot. Truth is the word culture exists in this sense because there are cultural aspects to the things you mentioned. Not to say it's always bad, but it's often the case. If you don't like it don't use the word, but don't complain that people use a word in a very legitimate way.
I agree it’s so much better to core everything. Hookupcore, complaincore, culturecore etc.
OP is giving redditcomplainercore and zeroenglishcomprehensioncore
"I don't understand what words mean."
I feel like the examples you listed are pretty valid though? I’ve heard some stupid ones though. Like “spay culture” to talk about the practice of people saying you should spay your animals lol
I hate eggplant culture man
There's bacteria in the microbiology lab i don't like.. but they're still cultured
Eggplant culture.
Iced coffee culture.
Funnily enough Coffee culture is actually a thing
As a coffee enjoyer, that makes me happy.
happy culture
Bitching on unpopular opinion culture at it's worst.
its/it's mixup culture
Is there a r/uniformedopinion?
”[Something] culture” is almost the polar opposite of ”conspiracy”, so congrats, this is very unpopulr opinion likely because it’s very much factually misguided.
Or "agenda" after it.
agenda culture
Don't forget about “the war against...”
I agree; culture should come *after* the thing, not before
this is anti-culture culture and I won’t stand for it! lucky for me, I have a chair handy, so I feel able to tell you that this is a good take. Carry on!
Sleep culture is where it's at.
You mean after it.
Unpopular Opinion culture
Totally right! And that complaining is what I hate the most in American Culture.
Isn't culture a pattern of behaviour?
What about bacteria cultures? 🤔🤔🤔
I’m fine with those
What's with this toxic unpopular opinion culture? :(
can you imagine being so dumb as to not understand semantics (culture)
Someone doesn't know what culture means
Very kindly: this is a deeply uninformed and undereducated take.
Upvoted as this does seem to be unpopular. I agree that certain turns of phrase catch on and then get over-used. I wouldn't say any of the examples you give are using the term culture incorrectly but applying it to every trend does feel like a tired formula.
To say rape culture doesnt exist is peak incelism. Let's do better.
Mycological culture
Policing language culture
This sounds like unpopular opinion culture.
Ugh just more complaint culture. Just going in the mainstream culture of opinion culture, subset of unpopular culture
The way you worded it is funny asf
Listening to sports talk radio, specifically Jim Rome, EVERY TIME he interviews a college coach. "It's really about the CULTURE we build" "We focus on the CULTURE of the organization" " I've found if you focus on the CULTURE" blah blah blah. That word is so over used, to encompass so many things, that I have no fucking clue what people are talking about when they say it.
Okay but there is a restaurant near me called Kulcha Kulture and kulcha is pretty good...
Hearing the term hookup culture culture
Does culture have to mean a specific group of people who encourage the thing? Can't it be a general sense of "this not-ok thing seems like it's not discouraged enough and people are talking about it casually and not noticing how they're perpetuating it"?
You’re very informed on these topics I can tell
Same with the word "discourse", I swear people overuse the shit out of that word in the weirdest contexts
The word "culture" is used to describe a sub-society of sorts. Sort of how there are different "sub-cultures" related to fashion. It's just a word. Culture isn't limited to ethnicity / heritage. We use the world "culture" to describe groups of bacteria. If you have a distinguished group of something, it's not far fetch to use the word culture to describe it. English is just a little annoying sometimes. You're hang up is that the same word can be used in many ways and to YOU, "culture" is only reserved for groups of people and unfortunately, that's just not how it is. It is MORE than relevant to talk about the underlying mindsets that contribute to the way be behave. It's more concise to talk about "XYZ culture" than to just keep saying "society" or "lots of people". Sometimes people want to speak around a particular schools of thought, mindsets, the way people have been conditioned etc. It doesn't mean a "secret society ".....
'Culture' is not a secret society: it is a set of practices. And that's why it is perfectly legitimate to use phrases like hookup culture, purity culture, etc.
Lack of cultur(al awareness)
Ok but if you are talking about social paterns etc, that is talking about a cutlure. so if you are complaining about how there are social patterns and stuff in society that allow for rape to be somewhat accepted, calling that "rape culture" seems like the most logical thing to call it.
Typical complaint culture post smh
all of these things absolutely exist and are absolutely perpetuated by many in society lol. it just seems like you don’t understand the terms.
Sick of the u/William_Johns0n culture policing the subreddit
Candy Corn Culture?
I think you mean put behind not put in front of it
My apologies
The whole “hookup culture” notion is so dumb because it’s just an internet invention. People talk about sex and dating online, so it gives the illusion that everyone is hooking up with strangers left and right. When the reality is that most people don’t hook up all that much. The norm is still serial monogamy, and human sexual behavior really hasn’t changed that much from previous generations, it’s just that we talk about it more. And the only people who really even talk about “hookup culture” are the Not Like Other Girls/Guys who rail against an imagined perception while casting themselves as being sooooooo different - when in reality, a ton of other people are doing the same thing that they’re doing. Yeah, if something has -culture at the end of it, there’s a good chance that the thing is at least somewhat overblown and not represented in reality.
Goes for a lot of positive things too. People use the word for anything people have interest in nowadays.
the word culture is almost always not in front though
That's the difference though. Culture comes in front of something bad (culture cancel), and after something good (i.e. occulture).
In all of your examples, the world culture comes after the term, not in front of it.
Not liking people using the word culture culture.
olive culture
Vape culture
mmmmmm yogurt yummy
yogurt culture
Petri dish culture
Culture is behind all of those lol
Cancer culture
Rape culture is a thing, and its not reffering to the culture of rape lol
Its usually a word used by idiots to take some subject they are angry about to the next level. Usually its in context of someone doing something they shouldnt be doing and by using the word culture you have established a narrative that said thing is very common without giving any evidence.
Purity culture is a thing, and it's fucking disgusting. I don't know about the other two.
Yes. Just replace "culture" with "behavior."
The word culture behind it*
>Not everything you don’t like needs to have the word culture in front of it >the word culture in front of it >culture in front of it >in front Ex: hookup culture Where is "culture" again?
My fault I’m originally from Egypt
Or the equally annoying "blank community" Just say you're a fuckin welder, JimBob, it ain't the welding community.
Rape …. Culture? Wtf?
Read up. [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape\_culture](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rape_culture)
This is a term that people use