No, seriously. I don't get the tea thing. I really don't see why everyone loves it so much. Honestly, I prefer Koolaid over tea. I only like over-sweetened fruit flavored tea, flavored to the point that it's not tea anymore. Sometimes. Personally, I have received so much backlash over expressing that I don't like tea, but I've only mentioned it when asked. Yet I still get backlash, which doesn't make sense. If you ask someone a question, you really have no place to throw a fit or insult him/her over the answer given; you literally asked for it.

I'm also not a fan of guns. I get that we have the right to bear arms and blah blah blah, but do you really have to talk about them all the time? Do you have to debate with everyone about gun ownership? Weapons make me uncomfortable in general. Having guns or a gun in the house would not make me feel more safe. Weapons do not make me feel safe. Weapons don't suddenly make the bad guy good again. All right? I've only used a gun a few times and didn't like the experience. I mean, I wasn't terrible. Aimed better than my boyfriend the first time I ever held/shot a gun, and he's an experienced hunter. But just some advice to any girls that are being taught how to shoot by their boyfriends, it's a bad idea. Your boyfriend is not an instructor, he's not trained and he'll likely forget to tell you something important. Trust me. I had a very big, very noticeable bruise between my eyebrows for a week or so the second time I held a gun (different from the first). Before you start judging me, no, my face was not close to the gun. Yes, I was holding it correctly. But he forgot to mention the little detail of where to rest my cheek on the gun, which is why my face took a hit. My boyfriend's words of encouragement were: "It doesn't have much kick, so you'll be fine." Wrong, wrong, wrong!

I'm also not a fan of hunting. I've been an avid animal lover since my first encounter with one, and I don't believe in killing for sport or for fun. I don't understand how it's fun to take the life of another being. And don't use that BS excuse that it's good to hunt because "it's population control." No. Just no! We wouldn't have a need for "population control" if we, the self-entitled "superior beings," weren't dumb enough to kill the natural predators of the very animals we hunt. Cause and effect. I think my view on hunting would be different if we didn't have an unfair advantage over the other animals. We use weapons they could never compete with. Try hunting without your beloved guns. You'll have to get up close and personal like a natural predator. No knives either. Use the weapons you were born with. Oh wait, you don't have any because you're not a biological predator. Humans are silly.

Football. What is so great about football? I was in high school band all four years and went to every single game, and still don't understand it or find it entertaining. Most of the girls only looked in the general direction of the field to see the boys in football pants. Girls like looking at butts too, ya know. Football Sunday is a thing in my family, as I'm sure it is in many, but really I only went for the food. I mean, yeah family time is great, but everyone is just watching the game, so the food was my only companion. And my sister. I also hate the loudness that comes with watching football. Especially when you're not physically at the game. Is screaming and hollering really necessary? They can't hear you and probably wouldn't understand you (or care) if they could.

I'm sure I'll get backlash for "not being a real Texan" for all the reasons above, but other people's opinions don't hurt me or matter really. I'm a Texan, born and raised, and that won't change because of my interests and opinions.