How Contrapoints Misunderstands Gender
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The theory of gender that emerges from Contrapoints’ videos offers us an eclectic mix of contradictory theories, and fails to give us a…

"I hope to explore the underlying conception of gender that Natalie deploys and develops in her Contrapoints videos, in order to provide a materialist critique of this theory of gender. First, I will look to several of Natalie’s videos in order to try to explicitly outline her conception of gender. Second, I will offer a materialist criticism of this conception that highlights Natalie’s silence on the economic and political function of gender in a patriarchal and capitalist society. In doing so, I will try to explain why this misconception of gender results in the problems and conceptual errors that plague The Aesthetic."

  • snackage [he/him]
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    4 years ago

    Your counter completely misses the point. That's the danger of quoting just the spicy sentence.

    A properly materialist assessment of the conditions which produce gender reveals the extent to which gender is not merely a linguistic or discursive phenomena. Gender is a material relationship that can only be combatted materially.

    Alyson wants to abolish gender the same why we want to abolish the class distinction between bourgeoisie and proletariat. Like your quotes from "Trans Liberation" don't contradict Alyson's arguments.

    • PapaEmeritusIII [any]
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      4 years ago

      First check out this other comment I made:
      https://hexbear.net/post/82659/comment/894002

      The main thing I’m trying to get at is this: I don’t agree with Alyson’s assertion that gender abolition/nihilism is the only way forward. In fact, I think it will make it much more difficult to form a movement, since such assertions will dissuade many potential allies in the trans community who have fought hard for their identities.