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."

    • PapaEmeritusIII [any]
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      4 years ago

      I wish I could just disagree with an author without my disagreement being mischaracterized as a dunk attempt. Do you think I’m doing this for epic debate points? I have an actual stake in these conversations as a nonbinary person; when I see a piece of writing that says that the proliferation of new gender and sexual identities “can perhaps be understood as a demand for recognition taken to an absurd extent,” I don’t think it’s bad faith of me to be perturbed.