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[–]Terfenclaw 14 insightful - 1 fun14 insightful - 0 fun15 insightful - 1 fun -  (2 children)

I actually just finished watching this video in order to try to understand the other side better, and I'm disappointed by it. It was a very shallow, superficial overview of GC thinking. The main issue I take with trans activism is the effect of TW in women's single sex spaces like sports, shelters, locker rooms, and prisons, and there was basically no mention of this. The "cotton ceiling" was mentioned like it was a strawman when there are tons of stories of lesbians having this experience.

[–]neveragain 10 insightful - 1 fun10 insightful - 0 fun11 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

It was a very shallow, superficial overview of GC thinking.

Yes, precisely. In that sense it's a very good video for purposes of advancing the TRA ideology, because it presents strawman arguments for GC views which are easily dismissed. I really wonder if Contrapoints believes that he made a good faith representation here, or if he intentionally dumbed everything down. Before I fully peaked I really liked his videos because I thought they were sincere (I think I've actually watched all of them, some more than once), but now confronted with evidence that he's misrepresenting things like the cotton ceiling ... Well, it's just like all the other gaslighting that so many trans people have done, I guess.

I'm struck particularly now as I scrub back through the video with the segment on "Abolish Gender", which is a complete and utter strawman. Abolishing gender is not about deleting any and all gender expression so that we are now languageless robots, it's about expanding the range of accepted gender expression for both men and women. So a woman can feel comfortable with her womanhood however she chooses to express it, instead of girls who do not like the colour pink now being told that they're probably nonbinary or trans, and leaving everyone else to be labelled with "cis" as though we're happy about the walls of conformity closing in around us.