You guys have GOT to check out Sander's latest video with Peppermint. Apparently there's a part 2 coming. Also, beware, there's a very glaring upskirt shot of Peppermint. You've been warned. You don't see anything but way too much top thigh, but it still warrants a warning.
I've come to the conclusion that, despite what he may say, Sander's not making these lame "educational" role-play videos to
actually inform viewers, change minds, or contribute any kind of meaningful advance to a particular cause. If that were the case, they wouldn't be so bad and he wouldn't only allow positive, taint-kissing comments and ignore/delete/shut down any constructive criticism, questions, or challenges to his content. He's making these videos simply to get more pats on his hairy back from the people who are already in agreement with him.
It works, evidently from the comments. He gets all this praise about being such an "ally" and so "amazing." He gets compliments about his physical appearance whether it's related to the content or not (still don't see how anyone finds this elderly 24-year-old remotely attractive and it's not even bc I hate him). In other words, he pleases the people who are already in his echo chamber, receiving love and validation he never has and never will receive from Jeanette or more importantly from himself (he
totally disregarded the actually very wise advice Hope gave him about internal validity being the key to happiness over the ridiculously sought-after and forever out-of-reach external validation he's so clearly addicted to).
It's performative and weak. It exposes that what Sander
really cares about, what he
really prioritizes isn't anything to do with a group cause (whether it be trans people -- I refuse to say LGBT bc no one in that family seems to care at all about any other letters except T, disabled people, autistic people, Jewish people, etc). He only cares about their rights, acceptance, and visibility so much as he can use it to his own self-promotion. What his videos lay bare is that
Sander Jennings only cares about Sander Jennings.
Which we know, obviously. But he and his followers seem wholly unaware and unable to glean this from his "educational" videos like his most recent.
Not a soul has watched his latest video with Peppermint (or any of the ones before it where he attempts to explain, gatekeep, and police others' language in under a minute for a social media post wherein he always has to show his creepy face) and actually walked away from it with any degree of enlightenment or positive change in thinking. He fails to move the needle any further to his side. He either preaches to those already in agreement or he further alienates people.
If he truly cared about anything he promotes, he could:
1) provide real, meaningful
action steps. For example, with a political issue, instead of poorly explaining a bill and then bitching about it
after it's passed, he could organize or join an existing campaign to lobby against it. He could demonstrate how to look-up and write to people voting on the bill. He provide links or templates of such letters. He could join a campaign for a particular candidate whom he feels would be best to further whatever cause he's after, and do phone banking, organize speaking events, design merch. Have donations go to a well-established organization whose actions and spending are easily available to access online instead of his family's murky Purple Rainbow bullshit.
2) Produce content without any kind of self-promotion whatsoever. That means his aged face and hairy chest would appear
nowhere in the content, as the focus should be on the message/cause and should not be an attempt to garner comments about how hot he is, or marveling about how he's still single (why is this such a mystery to these people?!). He could even create another account, not associated with his "Sander Jennings brand" so that the message may be more objectively viewed.
3) Not produce videos wherein he and his "co-stars" sound like they're talking down to viewers.
4) Actually address constructive criticism and questions instead of ignoring them, deleting them, or allowing those who make them to be labeled as "trans phobes" by his mob. I legit saw on one of his TikTok posts, one of his fans was attacking a commenter they didn't agree with and in doing so, they started implying, without literally
any evidence or self-disclosure from the commenter, that they had diabetes. Lol wtf? This was being used as an insult from someone angry about a comment that was not pro-trans on Sander's page. I happen to have Type 1 Diabetes and raised an issue with this, as the message appeared to be it's ok to make fun of an assumed disease because one is presumed to be transphobic? Anyway, this kind of stuff isn't chastised or deleted by Sander. But intelligent conversation and critical thinking is.
5) Proof-read or have someone else proof-read any text in the videos.
6) Make sure he pluralizes words.
It's all so self-fellating and these people just eat it up.
Ok sorry for this insanely long post. My Adderall kicked in and this is what happens.
