Unless they happen to be naturally so without catering to stereotypes, thats accidental.That topic rally could spawn an entire series, but contra really doersnt need to be the one who does everything. She's like, "a professional" now.
She made some jokes about the ruling class being reptiles in one of her older videos, that's it.As for the NB thing, from what I can see it's usually people being mad she included a short clip of Buck Angel (who's one of the older trans people who think NB identities are nonsense) reading out a quote. Too many feminists think men have everything and don't understand that just as the patriarchy oppresses women by denying their agency, their humanity, their freedom, and their utility, it also oppresses men by forcing them into a certain role. You can see it in her most recent video topics. I don't geeeeet iiit." Leftist YouTuber ContraPoints Explains Why Cancel Culture Mobs Should Drop the Pitchforks "I have no faith left in call-out vigilante justice." Besides, so many others in this thread said it, albeit far less eloquently...I have a feeling that you, and probably many of the other people in this thread, are "growing out" of Contrapoints. "I definitely get that vibe from her. Trans regret snoopy is the voice I find most interesting, incidentally, and someone like her can’t exist in the portrait painted by contra.For me, I feel like Contrapoints stops just as she's really getting into an issue and her recent videos could do with being 10 minutes longer. I can in most cases watch people talk about experiences completely outside mine and not be like "buh, wuh? So I've always like Contrapoints videos. Not that her videos are getting worse but rather that as you expand your knowledge on the subjects that she talks about you're becoming more able to notice flaws and things you disagree with while also becoming less interested in the videos in general because it feels more like rehashing things you already understood.building on that i think if breadtube wants to go anywhere we need to reflect on what we are as consumersthe internet is not a healthy environment as it is and breadtube does some good stuff but is maybe reaching some limits in terms of actionable praxiswe need ways to reflect and critique without leaning on "reviewing" in a weird neolib senseSpot on. And whenever an entire class of people is forced into a role it will inevitably harm the square pegs that don't fit in round holes, that oppression is not a zero-sum game and that intersectionality is not a contest of who has it worst. On that level it was good, certainly better than most of breadtube, but didn't think about how race, class, culture, religion or age intersect enough.Explaining the perspective of young men susceptible to radicalization and why potential allies (as in, people unhappy with the status quo) end up as hardened misogynists. Someone actually is attempting to understand me instead of judge or blame me' and that is exactly why she is so good at turning people left, even if that's neither a deliberate intention of either her channel as a whole or that video in particular. Us all saying our pronouns isn't useful to me and isn't as validating to me as people just assuming I'm female, but it's not a big deal'. There are still a whole lot of people that find these kinds of ideas mind-blowing because they weren't exposed to similar thinking before.
And she's right in that there is no universal trans experience - but that doesn't make it alright to just gloss over other experiences. There are positive figures but that some famous guys telling about the importance of emotional selfcare is needed, is alarming already.And all that has to do with gender stereotypes so deep that barely anyone wants to be the one pulling on that, because of the flag you get from both sides.
She made some jokes about the ruling class being reptiles in one of her older videos, that's it.As for the NB thing, from what I can see it's usually people being mad she included a short clip of Buck Angel (who's one of the older trans people who think NB identities are nonsense) reading out a quote. Too many feminists think men have everything and don't understand that just as the patriarchy oppresses women by denying their agency, their humanity, their freedom, and their utility, it also oppresses men by forcing them into a certain role. You can see it in her most recent video topics. I don't geeeeet iiit." Leftist YouTuber ContraPoints Explains Why Cancel Culture Mobs Should Drop the Pitchforks "I have no faith left in call-out vigilante justice." Besides, so many others in this thread said it, albeit far less eloquently...I have a feeling that you, and probably many of the other people in this thread, are "growing out" of Contrapoints. "I definitely get that vibe from her. Trans regret snoopy is the voice I find most interesting, incidentally, and someone like her can’t exist in the portrait painted by contra.For me, I feel like Contrapoints stops just as she's really getting into an issue and her recent videos could do with being 10 minutes longer. I can in most cases watch people talk about experiences completely outside mine and not be like "buh, wuh? So I've always like Contrapoints videos. Not that her videos are getting worse but rather that as you expand your knowledge on the subjects that she talks about you're becoming more able to notice flaws and things you disagree with while also becoming less interested in the videos in general because it feels more like rehashing things you already understood.building on that i think if breadtube wants to go anywhere we need to reflect on what we are as consumersthe internet is not a healthy environment as it is and breadtube does some good stuff but is maybe reaching some limits in terms of actionable praxiswe need ways to reflect and critique without leaning on "reviewing" in a weird neolib senseSpot on. And whenever an entire class of people is forced into a role it will inevitably harm the square pegs that don't fit in round holes, that oppression is not a zero-sum game and that intersectionality is not a contest of who has it worst. On that level it was good, certainly better than most of breadtube, but didn't think about how race, class, culture, religion or age intersect enough.Explaining the perspective of young men susceptible to radicalization and why potential allies (as in, people unhappy with the status quo) end up as hardened misogynists. Someone actually is attempting to understand me instead of judge or blame me' and that is exactly why she is so good at turning people left, even if that's neither a deliberate intention of either her channel as a whole or that video in particular. Us all saying our pronouns isn't useful to me and isn't as validating to me as people just assuming I'm female, but it's not a big deal'. There are still a whole lot of people that find these kinds of ideas mind-blowing because they weren't exposed to similar thinking before.
And she's right in that there is no universal trans experience - but that doesn't make it alright to just gloss over other experiences. There are positive figures but that some famous guys telling about the importance of emotional selfcare is needed, is alarming already.And all that has to do with gender stereotypes so deep that barely anyone wants to be the one pulling on that, because of the flag you get from both sides.