"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."
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.