Am I wrong for not wanting to watch movies/shows with trans actors?

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[–]our_team_is_winning 42 insightful - 1 fun42 insightful - 0 fun43 insightful - 1 fun -  (11 children)

I hope I am free to say this here: Transgenderism shouldn't sit well with anyone. It's delusional and narcissistic. That's not healthy. And we're all being told we're bad people (or worse slurs) if we don't embrace this garbage.

It's perfectly fine to say no. Wasn't "boundaries" a thing not long ago?

[–]mvmlego 3 insightful - 7 fun3 insightful - 6 fun4 insightful - 7 fun -  (10 children)

What exactly are those boundaries, though? What is the extent to which you'd say that it's morally acceptable to refuse to interact with trans people? If the movie was aimed at promoting trans ideology, then I'd understand, but the OP was being much more general than that. What would you think about avoiding shopping at a small grocery store that had a transgender cashier, for example?

[–]SkinnyVanilla 13 insightful - 1 fun13 insightful - 0 fun14 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I don't think you have a moral obligation to interact with anyone, and that it's fine to avoid whoever you want for any reason.

[–]mvmlego 2 insightful - 5 fun2 insightful - 4 fun3 insightful - 5 fun -  (2 children)

If I understand your comment correctly, then your principle implies that there's nothing morally wrong with, for example, an owner of a small restaurant refusing to serve an Asian person on account of their race. Is that correct, or is your principle only meant to apply customers' obligations, or am I misinterpreting your comment in some other way?

[–]SkinnyVanilla 2 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 0 fun3 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

I mean people acting in their personal lives have no obligation to interact with anyone. If you are offering a service to the public, then yes in that case you have an obligation to offer that service without regard for your personal feelings.

[–]mvmlego 1 insightful - 5 fun1 insightful - 4 fun2 insightful - 5 fun -  (0 children)

Interesting. I view the choice of whether or not one buys/rents/views-in-cinema a movie as a business transaction like any other. Still, I can see the utility in only holding the expectation that people not discriminate in business transactions in cases where they're the ones providing the good or service, as opposed to consuming it.

[–][deleted] 5 insightful - 2 fun5 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 2 fun -  (4 children)

I won't watch shows with actors who are known pedophiles. Doesn't matter to me if the show is not about pedophilia, per se.

[–]watermelonapples 4 insightful - 1 fun4 insightful - 0 fun5 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

This is why people don't like us. You cannot compare pedophilia to transgenderism.

[–][deleted] 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

Sure, I can. I just did. Time to accept the fact that "No" is a complete sentence. Only rapists don't understand this.

[–]our_team_is_winning 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I wouldn't go out of my way to ingest sexual perversion. I would wonder about a grocery store that hired a mentally ill person as a representative of their company. If it had the best selection and prices or was closest to my home, I guess I'd just try to minimize the interaction. I've had to work with TWO men who were playing dress-up as women. The one was super nice and clearly a gay man whose Islamic faith taught that it was better to have surgery than be openly gay. That's one kind of tragedy. The other was an older married (to a woman) man who slowly started dressing in women's clothes which clashed with his receding hairline. His wife was a total victim. That's another kind of tragedy.

I'm not going to seek out trans content, and if I come across it, chances are I will turn it off and focus elsewhere. It's not normal and nobody should have to accept it as such.