Contrapoints just put out a post reading “Thoughts on I/P” on her subreddit, and as you might expect, it is poopoo dogshit of the caliber you would expect from an enbyphobic white liberal trans woman who gallivants about with Hillary Clinton.

TL;DR Leftists didn’t do anything by protesting the genocide, being anti-Zionist is ‘shrinking the tent’, criticism of Israel is responsible for rising antisemitism, and so on, and so forth. At least she says the word genocide, I guess.

Link to post: https://www.reddit.com/r/ContraPoints/comments/1lvxfqo/thoughts_on_ip

  • She Was Speaking@lemmygrad.mlOP
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    The thing that initially started backlash against her started when she put out a thread complaining about people asking for pronouns and how it made things harder and more awkward for her as a “semi-passable trans”. It wasn’t that offensive, but people pointed out how asking for pronouns is good because it accommodates non-passing binary trans people and nonbinary trans people and she was… not the most receptive. There’s a lot to be said on the subject, but the TL;DR is that a lot of binary trans people look at the mechanism of misgendering (e.g. assuming gender) and see it as something to spin in their favor (once they pass well enough) to validate themselves as really being men / women.

    “I’m sure this is not the experience of many NBs. I leave it to them to articulate what NB existence looks like in a binary world. I do not and cannot speak for them. But surely an account that begins and ends with “I’m not a man because I don’t identify as one” is pretty weak.”

    She seems to be agreeing with what appears to be a transmed here (this was in response to a thread where she talked about ‘20 something boy moding trans women who will go up to you and tell you they use she/her pronouns’ and the generational gap between her and younger trans people)

    Anyway, she continued to double down on that instead of apologizing, at one point going on a rant about how she’s “the last of the old school transsexuals” (whatever that means), and at another point expressing sympathy with people who are worried about the future of trans acceptance due to more radical / non-conforming members of the community. As the other person mentioned, there was also the whole thing with her platforming Buck Angel, a very bigoted trans man who is a transmed and outed Lily Wachowski without her consent. She eventually deleted her Twitter and went on a sort of “I’ve been cancelled” pity tour, making a video about how unjustly harassed she’s been in which, for whatever fucking reason, she compares herself to JK Rowling and seems to argue that even if Rowling was a shitty person, the harassment she received wasn’t necessarily justified (?). She also compared leftists & trans folk who criticized her to Kiwifarms trolls. In one of her videos, she also was really unnecessarily shitty towards that one Gamestop trans woman that had a video of her circulating a few years back.

    She later returned to Twitter, having clearly learned nothing, and continued making insensitive, catty remarks about niche groups within the queer community - e.g. bi lesbians, asexual folk who have sex, etc - and generally proving that she had learned nothing.

    Like, it’s not like she’s JK Rowling (although it took a long while for even JK Rowling to become JK Rowling) - she’s not going on crusades against nonbinary people - but she’s a privileged, white binary trans woman who is consistently insensitive towards other members of the community and instead of apologizing, doubles down in response to backlash and tries to paint herself as a victim of the ever ubiquitous cancel culture.

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      I’m non-binary, and I argue that ContraPoints is vehemently enbyphobic, despite her rhetoric.

      And her platforming the rapist and evil, sociopathic Buck Angel is a whole other level of scum. They both need bullets in their heads.