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{{Infobox_character|name = ContraPoints|image = ContraPoints2.jpg|imagecaption = ContraPoints' YouTube avatar as of November 2019.|birthDate = 21st of October, 1988|birthPlace = Arlington, Virginia, USA}}'''ContraPoints''' is a [[YouTube]] channel run by Natalie Wynn known for its humour, nuance and intelligence. She advocates for left-wing positions around [[gender]], [[Race (Category)|race]] and [[capitalism]], while also providing a strong intellectual defense against the [[Alt-Right]], [[Jordan Peterson]], [[Gender Critical Feminism|Gender Critical Feminists]],
'''ContraPoints''' is a [[YouTube]] channel run by '''Natalie Wynn''' known for its humour, nuance, socratic dialogues and intelligence. She advocates for left-wing positions around [[gender]], [[Race (Category)|race]] and [[capitalism]], while also providing a strong intellectual defense against the [[Alt-Right]], [[Jordan Peterson]] and [[Gender Critical Feminism|Gender Critical Feminists]].


== Contra-versies ==
Despite being by far the most popular [[Socialism|socialist]] and [[Queer Culture|queer]] political figure on YouTube,


Despite her overwhelming support from fans, she often faces criticism from other leftists, trans and non-binary people, specifically on Twitter and Tumblr, due to views she has that they perceive as transmedicalist or exclusionary towards non-binary people.


=== ''The Aesthetic'' ===
==List of Videos<nowiki/>==
In
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aPhrTOg1RUk&t Envy] (August 2021)
<nowiki> </nowiki>September 2018, her video “The Aesthetic” caused controversy due to
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gDKbT_l2us&t J.K. Rowling] (January 2021)
what many saw as a sympathetic portrayal of the character Justine, who
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3Vah8sUFgI&t Voting] (October 2020)
viewed gender strictly through an (as the title implies) aesthetic lens
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=smQsfNw_7V4 Justice (Part 1)] (September 2020)
rather than a personal one. Many former fans abandoned her after this
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vRBsaJPkt2Q Cringe] (May 2020)
video.  
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7WvHTl_Q7I&t Shame] (February 2020)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjMPJVmXxV8 Canceling] (January 2020)
*[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jD-PbF3ywGo Opulence] (October 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S1xxcKCGljY Men] (August 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EdvM_pRfuFM&t "Transtrenders"] (July 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n9mspMJTNEY Beauty] (May 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pTPuoGjQsI Gender Critical] (March 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtj7LDYaufM The Darkness] (March 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PbBzhqJK3bg "Are Traps Gay?"] (January 2019)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6GodWn4XMM The Apocalypse] (December 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9bbINLWtMKI Pronouns] (November 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z1afqR5QkDM The Aesthetic] (September 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fD2briZ6fB0 Incels] (August 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyaftqCORT4 The West] (July 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dJ8whOM8E Tiffany Tumbles] (June 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j1dJ8whOM8E Jordan Peterson] (May 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AR7ryg1w_IQ What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 2)] (March 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GWwiUIVpmNY America: Still Racist] (February 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6czRFLs5JQo Autogynephilia] (February 2018)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gJW4-cOZt8A What's Wrong with Capitalism (Part 1)] (December 2017)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wyV0yeSZ94o Why the Alt-Right Is Wrong] (December 2017)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmsoVFCUN3Q Violence] (November 2017)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9BlNGZunYM8 Degeneracy] (October 2017)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QuN6GfUix7c The Left] (September 2017)
* [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sx4BVGPkdzk Decrypting the Alt-Right: How to Recognize a F@scist] (September 2017)


=== Pronouns ===
== See Also ==
In
* [https://contrapoints.fandom.com/wiki/Contrapoints_Wiki ContraPoints Wiki]
August 2019, she tweeted that the practice common in progressive spaces
* [[Philosophy Tube]]
of people being in a circle and giving their pronouns while introducing
* [[hbomberguy]]
themselves makes her feel uncomfortable,<sup>[58][59]</sup> causing a firestorm on Twitter and eventually leading to her briefly deactivating her account.<sup>[60]</sup>
[[Category:AnarWiki]]
<nowiki> </nowiki>Many fans, mostly her friends and BreadTube peers but also some
[[Category:Socialists]]
unwelcome figures such as right-wing hacks like Ian Miles Cheong, Black Pigeon Speaks and Blaire White<sup>[61]</sup>
[[Category:Feminists]]
<nowiki> </nowiki>jumped to her defense, saying that she was taken out of context and was
[[Category:Transgender People]]
<nowiki> </nowiki>merely speaking about her own personal discomfort with pronoun circles
[[Category:Queer Activists]]
rather than dismissing them as a whole. Before the deactivation, she
further infuriated some by saying that she felt like “the last of the
old school transsexuals” and that she was sympathetic to those who were
worried about the future of trans acceptance due to “radicals” that did
not pass or fit inside the gender binary. After briefly handing over control of her account to an assistant, Gwen "the Quen" Kruger, she has since <s>decided to return to Twitter on the 2nd of October.</s><sup>[62]</sup> Nope, sorry, she permanently left again on the 6th of November.<sup>[63]</sup>
 
=== Buck Angel ===
After
<nowiki> </nowiki>her release of the video "Opulence" on October 12th, 2019 she was
criticised for letting trans male pornographic actor, sex educator and,
more controversially, <s>truscum</s> "transmedicalist" Buck Angel appear briefly in the video as the voice of John Waters.<sup>[64]</sup>
<nowiki> </nowiki>Angel has also spoken out against non-binary gender identities, causing
<nowiki> </nowiki>many people to speak out against Wynn for collaborating with someone
who is transmedicalist and nonbinary-phobic, which in the process
re-ignited multiple previous contra-versies relating to these subjects.
On November 6, Wynn announced that she would leave Twitter, this tLd.<sup>[65]</sup>
 
=== Other thigs ===
People
<nowiki> </nowiki>that are further left on the political spectrum than her, such as
Marxist-Leninists, left communists and anarchists have beef with her as
well. They often accuse her of being a liberal who does not do enough to advance the leftist
<nowiki> </nowiki>cause that is the supposed basis of much of her career, in some cases
mirroring her relationship with other trans people. One of her
characters, Tabby, can be seen as a caricature of those further left
than her, which doesn't exactly help matters.
 
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ContraPoints is a YouTube channel run by Natalie Wynn known for its humour, nuance, socratic dialogues and intelligence. She advocates for left-wing positions around gender, race and capitalism, while also providing a strong intellectual defense against the Alt-Right, Jordan Peterson and Gender Critical Feminists.


List of Videos

See Also

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