ParsnipWitch

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[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

Or just baggage, which isn't particularly healthy for your mental state. When looking at my circle of friends, at the latest when your ~35 you will have lived through cheating or other types of betrayal. People often are just assholes to each other and hurt people hurt people.

I see this as an additional reason though, to not date someone who is still very young.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 13 points 9 months ago (2 children)

But that's... not the issue here? Men are much more attractive when they are 20 compared to 40 as well.

That doesn't make me creep around university trying to get into their pants. It also doesn't inspire me to write sexist stuff online, etc.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 39 points 9 months ago

There's a lot you can help here, though.

  1. Don't be a creep.

  2. Don't lie to your partner about this.

  3. Don't spin some weird sexist or misogynistic bs theories out of your attraction.

That's it. Doesn't seem too hard but you'd be surprised how many are struggling with these simple rules of decency and respect.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

What you seem to are saying is that specifically and exclusively people who work on software, music and digital art should give away their labour for free.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you know any platform that only offers digital stuff that's not buyable in a "good" way? Because I don't. That pirates pretend to ride some moral high horse is a cope that's incredibly disrespectful towards creators.

I feel in online communities like the Fediverse there is an active community of people who do not respect work of people who aren't working in tech or science. Or maybe it's predominantly a disrespect for creatives? I see this in discussions about AI image generators as well. And it's basically the same set of arguments that try to suggest artist should work for free.

They just have to add "get a real job and do your hobbies in your free time" and we have full circled back into the boomer mindset.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 1 points 9 months ago

You can buy those movies on physical medium though.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago) (1 children)

There is enough open source and free and dirt cheap content available already that you can't play in a lifetime. While I agree that stuff that's too expensive for the majority of people shouldn't even exist, I don't see why creative content should be free for the taking in a society that doesn't support that way of life yet. Unless you also agree that people should be allowed to take everything else for free as well.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 4 points 9 months ago (3 children)

A lot of games for example you can buy on GoG, and archive the installation file. That is probably the closest you can come when it's about owning closed source software. Pirating games that are buyable on GoG is simply stealing money from the creators for no other reason than being greedy and cheap.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago

So I hope you check beforehand if that's actually the case for the specific product you pirate. What I am seeing is that people just pirate everything because they do not respect the creators. From digital art, to indie works in movies, games and music. People pirate because they have the deeply capitalist mindset that if you can pay less (or nothing) for something you should. Even if that means the person that put in the labour and skills has less because of your behaviour.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 3 points 9 months ago (1 children)

It's because people do not want to pay creatives because you can't physically touch stuff creatives produce.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de -1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Ignoring all options to actually buy something to pirate something because you also find offers were you can rent it is just a capitalist mindset. Denying workers money because you want stuff as cheap as possible.

[–] ParsnipWitch@feddit.de 2 points 9 months ago* (last edited 9 months ago)

What makes you believe that women are now the abusers and superior to men?

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