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Pretty big loss for this topic, shame that some of the best and most dedicated archivers can't control themselves just a tiny bit.Also Nysysnottrans come back you schizo
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Pretty big loss for this topic, shame that some of the best and most dedicated archivers can't control themselves just a tiny bit.Also Nysysnottrans come back you schizo
This whole disaster has shinned a light on how some people can live their entire lives being abused day to day by the mentally ill.
Amazing, Contra somehow found a way to use a subway homicide to indulge in AGP.
I don't think White even remembers Parrott. There are plenty of trans YouTubers who criticize Blaire White for inventing the term "transtrenders" including CopsHateMoe, Jessie Gender, Brennen Beckwith, and Noah Finnce.Minor crossover here but I wonder who Blaire White is talking about in this clip...
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(link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yL4LLDLDlAM)
Blaire invented it? I feel like I saw that term on places like tumblr years before Blaire was relevant.There are plenty of trans YouTubers who criticize Blaire White for inventing the term "transtrenders"
I tried to find the link yesterday, but I'm pretty sure the term originated in 2011 on a Tumblr blog dedicated to mocking pooners.Blaire invented it? I feel like I saw that term on places like tumblr years before Blaire was relevant.
well at least he found a sane and productive hobby
This was only posted 5 hours ago? This shit with Faraday Speaks and "contrapoints deradicalized me" was relevant years ago at this point.Our "gorl: gets a mention she pulled a guy from the rabbit hole!!!
Why a supposedly libertarian magazine is promoting a communist is beyond me.
Background: Matt Bernstein is a netroots Jewish LGBT activist (despite his frequent insistence on not being called an activist) and LGBT-centric infographic creator. His biggest platform is Instagram, where he goes by @mattxiv (archive). As of writing, he has over 1.4 million followers and has an engagement metric (over 40% of followers actively engaging and liking his content on the more noteworthy posts) that would make most Instagram influencers pee their pants.LGBT conservatives: Why? How? Where did they come from? What can we learn from them, and how can we dismantle the LGBT conservative that lives within all of us? Natalie Wynn (aka Contrapoints) helps us psychoanalyze one of the more confusing political positions of our time. Jeffree Star makes an appearance, for better or for worse.
Now as far as I can tell, psychoanalysis seems like an unfalsifiable pseudoscience, but for the sake of argument lets grant that its a real thing. Isn't it standard practice that only a trained professional should be using it on patients that they personally talk to one on one? Why on earth does Nyk think he has any business diagnosing the hidden subconscious motivations of huge swaths of people he's never actually met in real life and this despite also having zero serious credentials in the field of psychology anyway? Is it because he's a pandering hack who knows his lobotomized cult will eat up whatever he tells them with no pushback whatsoever?Text as shown in the screencap:
Background: Matt Bernstein is a netroots Jewish LGBT activist (despite his frequent insistence on not being called an activist) and LGBT-centric infographic creator. His biggest platform is Instagram, where he goes by @mattxiv (archive). As of writing, he has over 1.4 million followers and has an engagement metric (over 40% of followers actively engaging and liking his content on the more noteworthy posts) that would make most Instagram influencers pee their pants.
You probably recognize his posts by the soft color gradient of blue-pink that many faghags love reposting for their friends to see.
As promised, here's the executive summary. This is shorthand and should not be considered to be more than 95% accurate - but it is representative of what they discussed. My comments are in parentheses.
- Matt sucks up to Nyk in the introduction, saying they are one of the "...smartest posters [on the internet]"
- They talk about Jeffree Star and how Star looks fabulous, talking about how Star is an icon of queerness
- Nyk talks about how Star has changed opinions on nonbinary people and pronouns, they/thems being invented during the pandemic
- They discuss how Beretta (the gun company) caved to Star and made (what I believe to be?) a custom hot pink 92FS for Star
- 7 minutes in, Matt finally gets to the topic of the podcast: queer conservatives, trans Republicans
- Nyk comments that this doesn't make sense in a rational world (we live in clown world though)
- Nyk tries to elaborate how this divorce of "LGB drop the TQ" types are trying to create a new dichotomy; as a means to separate and differentiate themselves from the crowd
- Matt discusses how this divergence has been present since before the Stonewall Riots - assimilationists and liberationists (his words not mine)
- "well maybe if we were a little more normal, we could fit in" is the rationale Matt proposes
- Nyk states that this doesn't work. Assimilationists can't fit in a straight world, as Republicans would slowly squash them out of existence.
- Nyk explains that some queer individuals need to assimilate to make the policy changes to allow for greater LGBT acceptance. Nyk cites Harvey Milk as a prime example of this.
- "Sometimes assimilation goes too far and then you have something like Stonewall" - Nyk
- Matt then talks about Blaire White, a Republican HSTS influencer.
- Matt plays a clip on Blaire's position on nonbinary people. In the clip, Blaire says that "nonbinary people are the reason people don't understand trans people"
- Nyk makes the observation that there is still a great amount of animosity directed at trans people within the public policy space, especially by people such as Ron DeSantis.
- Nyk says that there will always be a grifter who says gay bashing will always be the fault of degenerate gays
- They say Blaire White is a trans conservative "pick-me" type
- Nyk says the YWNBAW line (lol)
lmao Nyk has been running with this cope for years now. "People only hate me because they secretly wanna fuck me waaah." Like tell me you're addicted to porn without telling me you're addicted to porn.
- Nyk theorizes that conservatives are uncomfortable with confronting that they may be attracted to trans women like Blaire. Therefore, make trans-bashing jokes about it
Nyk theorizes that conservatives are uncomfortable with confronting that they may be attracted to trans women like Blaire. Therefore, make trans-bashing jokes about it
This piqued my interest, so I decided to transcribe this specific section:
- Nyk gets Freudian and how the desire of approval from parents is a deep-rooted desire
- Stemming from that, Nyk talks about how homosexuals then stem from self-hatred of this parental approval
As always with Contra, it's not completely without merit, but I think it's ironic that Nat references people projecting without realising that making these sweeping assumptions about how certain people think may in-and-of-itself be projection.I think that it's reasonable to have a level of animosity towards people who take their self-hate and then use that to hate other people and use that to bolster politics that's going to hurt all of us. I also think that when you deal with your self-hate - say, as a gay person - by being an enthusiastic trans-basher? Well at a certain point self-hate has become other-hate; you're passing it on, you're projecting it outwards, and I think that's just how bigotry works. Like I think a lot of bigots - every bigot, every abuser, every dictator has their own issues; they were deeply wounded in childhood, like Joseph Stalin was beaten by his father, every common domestic abuser has some kind of sad backstory - like, sure. The question is: what you do with that trauma? We all have some degree of trauma and I do think some level of self-hate is probably a near universal part of the queer experience.
Like who among us has not had times in our life when this was the most salient emotion we were experiencing. I think that it's very common. I remembered, when I was doing research for my video on cringe, reading all these reddit posts from people posting to like /r/confessions where it was like "I'm trans and I hate other trans people", "I'm gay and I hate other gay people". I remember this one post from someone who was - they lived in a very homophobic country and they came from a homophobic family and they described this experience of seeing a pride parade and feeling this horror and disgust, because there were scantily clad people and people kissing in public and wearing rainbows and it was "like everything my homophobic family would say they were - that's why my family would hate me and why I can't come out to them"...
Not to get all Freudian on it but a lot of time the family and from early in life - I think a lot of Conservative influencers probably have a homophobic father or something, and the desire for approval from your parents is a long lasting thing. Even if you no longer have a relationship with your parents, it's still somewhere inside of you. If you feel like you want your father's approval, you'll kind of seek out that type of approval from other right wing men. I think that that is - you know, it is like self-hate in a way, but it's more complicated than just self-hate because it touches this yearning for acceptance and love that we all feel and that queer people in particular, a lot of us have this basic wound of the shame from years of hearing ourselves disparaged, derogatory depictions in the media, hearing homophobic talking points within your own family growing up... So that yearning to be accepted and for the shame to be reduced motivates a lot of this behaviour I think. I think there is a grain of something sympathetic in that, that's not just "this idiot hates themselves".
Exactly. I don't even necessarily disagree with the crux of his argument as far as self hatred goes, or disgust and dislike for a group you're a part of often being due to ingrained and socially enforced shame. I do think though that it's dishonest and an over-generalisation to say that this is a significant or even primary motivator for LGBT conservatives. No one exists in a vacuum and people like Blaire White are definitely pick-mes in some sense (and I think Blaire actually believes most of what he says, it's not mutually exclusive), but the issue with assuming everyone else is driven by that kind of insecurity if they deviate from being blindly supportive of what they're told is "their cause", is that you are actually further alienating those people and driving them away even more. You can't just viciously and totally shut down and hound people who have different opinions for whatever reason, which is what Contra's ilk does, and also expect to actually be able to extend an olive branch and act as if you sympathise with them.As always with Contra, it's not completely without merit, but I think it's ironic that Nat references people projecting without realising that making these sweeping assumptions about how certain people think may in-and-of-itself be projection.