“If some idiot wants to pay for it…”

Not everybody lives their lives based on political cancel culture.

Just the people who tried to cancel Rock and Roll, Heavy Metal, D&D, The Dixie Chicks, teaching black history, books, trans people, gay people, abortions…

Isn’t it funny how your opinion on the subject literally doesn’t matter at all? You’ve made it clear that you only ever talk to people you work with, which explains why you’re an antisocial incel. If, as you say, you will never actually interact with a potential trans person in your life then your trash opinion literally does not matter to anyone.

You just wanted to let everyone know you’re a closed minded bigot, and we heard you the first time.

everyone else I don’t care to talk to

and we all appreciate your service. Unfortunately you’re talking to me right now and you can only take my word that I’m a male.

You don’t know what you don’t know.

And when you don’t know what genitals someone was born with how do you address them?

I respect people when they’re capable and honest.

Glad to know you don’t respect yourself any more than I do.

So when someone says to you they are a woman, how do you determine if you refer to them with feminine pronouns?

And how do you determine if it’s true?

Someone created a Cis or Trans Quiz with 25 pictures: https://uquiz.com/quiz/ACfqeR

My Results: https://uquiz.com/Result/static/lite/ACfqeR/4866525/scored/68?&s=4adba41d-150b-4d50-9b6f-93817a24ca47

It takes less than 5 minutes, feel free to link your perfect score (Note how only 78 people scored higher than 90%). Otherwise your only options to determine if it’s “true” would be insisting on seeing their genitals, making you a sex offender, or to take them at their word.

I don’t wanna fuck any women.

And the lies begin. What would be the relevance of you saying:

As a straight dude, I’m not about to call another dude ‘miss’.

If this has nothing to do with sex?

Also why should I treat any category of person with respect just because of their category?

You should treat every person with a basic level respect just because they are a person. Once they reveal themselves to be a misogynistic piece of shit you can stop doing so, but even then I’m not going to misgender you just because you’re an asshole.

Yes, you’ve made it clear you only care to treat women with any amount of respect if you’re trying to fuck them.

I’m talking about situations where psychos start yelling at cis women using the bathroom because they’ve convinced themselves that she’s trans.

There’s nothing special about addressing someone as “her”, that’s just normal every day communication.

You’re not being asked to treat anyone special, you’re being ask to treat them like people. If the way you treat women is vastly different than the way you treat men because you see them as merely objects to fuck then you are an asshole.

The problem with that is that if always results in discrimination against cis women who don’t look feminine enough.

As a straight dude, if another dude insisted on seeing a woman’s genitals before calling her ‘miss’ I would punch him in the face.

I should add that I reject the idea of anyone making a choice. Neuroscience is pretty confident that choice is not an actual thing; it’s all cause and effect. The behavior we are seeing from Elon Musk now is caused by his genes, how he was brought up, and how people are treating him. We can control one of these three things to get the effect we want.

We can’t control any of these three things because I am unable to make a choice in how I treat him. My behavior in how I treat Elon Musk is caused by my genes, how I was brought up, and how people are treating me.

So with that in mind: Elon Musk is an idiot causing actual harm to the world and people need to stop enabling this piece of shit. The world would be a better place if he lost all his money and was a poor man with no platform to spread his hateful ideas.

Using someone’s preferred pronouns isn’t woke, it’s basic human decency.

Basic human decency is woke.

But people aren’t just sharing media that is affected. They pirate everything, even when there are ways to buy and own it.

“Some people speed on roads, so all roads are bad.”

This conversation is about media you can’t buy and own.

This is where the analogy breaks down, because the circus requires people and an area to operate in. Digital movies and TV shows should just require my device to watch it on.

To strain the metaphor further: The Circus leaving the venue isn’t leaving town, they’re just moving across the street. But your tickets are only valid for the old venue. Do you expect people to purchase new tickets or just sneak in?

There’s also the people who purchased a lifetime membership to the circus and then were told the next day “The circus will no longer be going to that venue anymore after the end of the month.”

The expectation is that I purchased this media and can watch it as much as I want, whenever I want, for the rest of my life. When companies say “Lol, no. Fine print” reasonable people aren’t going to shrug their shoulders and say “You got me, I guess I’ll purchase more things.” They’ll say “screw that, I can get it for free and keep it forever, what service are you providing that’s better?”

That company is also going to show you the agreement you signed that says they can do that

Nobody said otherwise. The argument isn’t “this is illegal”, it’s “this is bullshit.”

People are still buying them.

And the argument being put forward is that people shouldn’t be.

The example about the painting was analogous to what the link article is talking about.

It’s not possible to make changes to a digital contract. The only option is to not make the “purchase” and acquire it elsewhere.