#Contrapoints

[antinativefaves]

Jesse Wente (from the documentary Reel Injun) successfully takes down everything wrong with Contrapoints's racist, tonedeaf and dismissive take on John Wayne's influence.

#your fave is anti native #john wayne #contrapoints #jesse wente #anti native racism #anti-native racism

[mywitchcultblr]

This is what happen when people take the 'your brain doesn't mature till 25' pop-sci too literally and just ran with it, also transphobia

#england #britain #rishi sunak #trans #lgbt #lgbtqia+ #natalie wynn #contrapoints #queer #trans rights #cass review #cass report

[maaarine]

"In her book "Girls Who Like Boys Who Like Boys", Lucy Neville argues that male-male erotica, Boys Love, slashfic, yaoi are very popular among women in part because they make more space for versatility and fluidity than heterosexual conventions will allow.

If women were submissive by nature, why would they sexually identify with men to this extent?"

Source: Twilight | ContraPoints

#contrapoints #natalie wynn #weaker sex

[nataliewynn]

Join me on the path to Twilightenment

#contrapoints #twilight #cannibalposting #soft vore #gay vampires #Youtube

[alinahdee]

Anyways, fuck Contrapoints. :)

#contrapoints #anti-native racism

[catboybiologist]

I missed contrapoints so much

#contrapoints

[drdemonprince]

"noncon fantasies are a way to imagine the fulfillment of the desire for sex, while disavowing that very desire"

yeah sure, great theory, for many it is! but what about those of us for whom it is not the sex we want at all, but the violation itself? i dont have hypnosis sex fantasies for the sex, but for the hypnosis! i dont have forced sex fantasies for the sex, but for the forcing! many of my fantasies do not involve sex at all, but do involve some kind of deep violation.

the claim that people only fantasize about rape to cope with the shame of wanting sex has always felt so alienating to me. im not ashamed of wanting sex. i dont especially want sex. what i want specifically is something i do not want. i want the pressure, the alarm, the confusion, the dissociation. i want that stuff actually, not in a thinly veiled play-acting way as a precursor to sex. if it doesnt actually feel like a violation, i dont much like the sex.

it's just so frustrating to me when people act like nobody genuinely just has dark desires, that its all just a thin ruse to cover up an interest in vanilla sexual activities. some people do that sure. but us actual fetishists do exist.

#contrapoints #re her new video on twilight

[meraarts]

I love you Jenny Nicholson I love you Sarah Z I love you Contrapoints I love you hbomberguy I love you Quinton Reviews I love you Quinn Curio I love you CJ the X

#can you tell I love video essays #I have watched so many of their videos so many times #I can basically mouth along to some of them #video essay #video essays #jenny nicholson #Sarah Z #contrapoints #hbomberguy #quinton reviews #Quinn curio #cj the x #mera speaks

[idridian]

the new contrapoints video truly has everything. a detailed examination of 'problematic' fiction and sexual fantasy as a concept (and practise). natalie listing fanfic tropes. all my favourite clips from hannibal. hbomberguy namedrop. interpretations of twilight that literally made me gasp out loud. a tangent about the marquis de sade. male elephants.

#ramblings o' mine #contrapoints #twilight

[waytoobiased]

MOTHER NOTICED ME

#contrapoints #youtube #socrates #plato #republic #philosophy

[testosteronetwunk]

#when contrapoints makes a good tweet she instantly fucking deletes it #elon musk #grimes #contrapoints #greatest hits

[maaarine]

"I wish that people who are inclined to crusade against "dangerous books" or "abusive ships" would try to think about fantasy in a way that's less literal and more psychological.

Like do furries and omegaverse fic writers "normalize bestiality"?

No, the fantasy of human animality is not about literal animals, it's about unleashing what is symbolically "animalistic" in us, the drives and urges that human taboos and decency forbid.

Are people who are into "Daddy doms" or diapers or whatever "literally normalizing pediatrics?"

Well no, it's not usually about that at all. Ageplay is usually about fantasy regression to the social position of someone who has no responsibilities and needs to be taken care of.

The fantasy, or the roleplay scenario, gives you permission to be taken care of.

Edward Cullen's notorious "I like to watch you sleep" feels creepy to a lot of people. And fair enough. "Creepy-ness" is subjective.

But I feel like you can find Edward creepy and still understand that for Stephenie Meyer, "Twilight" is not the expression of a literal desire to be stalked by creatures of the night.

The fantasy is of a protector watching over you. A witness. A guardian angel.

Like when you're a kid and you want your mom to stay in your room with you until you fall asleep. (…)

When I watch "Fifty Shades", I don't feel like I'm watching a seasoned predator. I feel like I'm watching a woman's fantasy. Because I am.

And if people like Gail Dines are too obtuse to notice the difference, that's kind of their problem.

I've been holding this in for 10 years, and I'm gonna say it.

I am begging these people to learn to think psychologically instead of literally, so that they're not constantly baffled and traumatized upon encountering literally the most common type of sexual fantasy that people have."

Source: Twilight | ContraPoints

#contrapoints #natalie wynn #weaker sex

[frmulcahy]

New Contrapoints video slays

#typical Natalie W #this is like the most random quote I could’ve pulled from it but it cracked me up #contrapoints #video essay #pride and prejudice

[salamanderinspace]

On Love

My best summary of the new Contrapoints video, if you're not a "watch a three hour video about Twilight" sort of person:

It's not about Twilight. It's about desire. The first chapter is the obligatory "yes there is a predatory dynamic in this, but let's talk about the role of fiction and fantasy, because it's fiction and not reality."

There is some discussing about what erotic love and desire truly is. Distinction between "yearning" (a lack for an abstract quality) and "craving" (which can be concretely satisfied.)

A really excellent dive into radical feminist theory about the predator-prey, hades-persephone dynamic that rules over romantic fiction. How the default heterosexual paradigm really does celebrate oppressive paradigms. Spoiler alert: it's not JUST fiction, there is a social context.

An argument that violence and death really are part of sexuality.

Mostly reframing the radical feminist theory in terms of a relationship to christianity as opposed to patriarchy.

An observation that women often consume this type of romance by identifying with the predator role because roles are inherently versatile and complex. Musings on the nature of masculinity and femininity as a ying/yang dichotomy.

There's a lot of research and nuance and jokes. A particularly good RHPS reference. Holding up a pair of scissors at an opportune moment. I don't think every single take is presented from the MOST based perspective but there was enough "this is what I've been saying" that I recommend the video overall as a source discussing fantasy and romantic love.

#contrapoints #ship wars #philosophy #romance #love

[soobshoob]

#contrapoints #philosophy tube #it do be like that #james somerton

[snixx]

natalie wynn is hilarious because she will spend one hour carefully deconstructing whatever point she's trying to make like she's explaining it to a five year old a la deradicalising the far right but then out of nowhere an hour into the video she will imagine some hypothetical karen asking something dumb like "hOw dO I eXpLaiN tO mY cHiLD" and THAT'S when she will suddenly choose to lose it and yell something like "KILL YOUR SHITTY CHILD FOR ALL I CARE" and i just think that's so iconic and such a mood

#contrapoints