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[–]WrongToy 10 insightful - 3 fun10 insightful - 2 fun11 insightful - 3 fun -  (2 children)

Blaire dragged ContraPoints over their "transition" (CP was identifying as some sort of nonbinary at that time). I've never heard them to drag women over abortion or PCOS or any other women's issue. Blaire is a pre-op and BW stays in their own lane about this (besides the restroom).

Honestly if I hadn't seen Blaire on Yaniv I wouldn't know who they were. If I saw them in the restroom (besides that I know who BW is) it'd be a "tree falls in the forest does anyone hear it" kind of thing.

[–]uglyelephant121[S] 18 insightful - 1 fun18 insightful - 0 fun19 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

How do you miss Blaire's numerous videos on 'feminism is cancer' and making fun of radical feminists? How do you miss all the pro-MRA videos Blaire has put up? If you only pay attention to Blaire's videos on transgender people, yes, he'd seem like a reasonable TiM. But you'd have to ignore all of his anti-women videos to come to that conclusion. At the end of the day, Blaire is a man and I feel disgusted that he feels the right to degrade women and radical feminists while propping up men and the alt right.

Also, I wasn't only talking about Blaire White or just Contrapoints. That's why I added 'and other TiMs.' It's something that's in a lot of communities online by several trans individuals.

[–]Anna_Nym 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

I think it matters, though, how open a transwoman is about their biological maleness. I am totally fine with men speaking about women's issues and feminism, especially now that I've seen how quickly and easily identity politics devours communities. We are all living in this world together; we are all affected by social norms and policies; we all have a right to comment and have opinions on issues.

That said, of course, I'm going to judge how a person talks about issues slightly differently based on how much skin in the game they have. So Blaire talking about feminism from a transwoman's perspective on her personal social media channels... totally fine to me. If Blaire claimed to be a woman and to have grown up as a girl, that would be appropriation.