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by koonsolo 2413 days ago
1) You are reading something that isn't there. In the same sense "be a good boy" could be used if she was male. Maybe I'm too old for this bullshit, but what is the problem of men being men, and women being women? Do we need to avoid genders everywhere now? Give me a break.

2) What does her net worth have to do with this? She is an artist that wants to perform the songs that she wrote. Was she allowed to complain if she wasn't rich or what?

Everybody knows social media is a fast way of resolving issues with big companies. And the more famous you are, the better and faster it works.

Disallowing an artist to perform her own music also feels like legal bullying to me, she is just fighting back. Let's see if it works.

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It will be a while yet before two tyrannical men telling a little girl to shut up will fail to engender an emotive response.

I’m not a fan of identity politics, and I’m tired of the bullshit as well, which is precisely why I called it out for being weaponized in what seems like an otherwise perfectly banal bun fight between two groups of corporate intellectual property lawyers.