"who'll have you."
I have so many takeaways from this video – I always have takeaways from Natalie Wynn's work, they're more like solo shows than youtube videos, a full evening's watch requiring a wind-down – but trying to express those takeways in neat little titles, like most bigotry is actually backlash, or projection isn't empathy, won't do this fantastic piece justice, because the reason ContraPoints' pieces are so long is Wynn refuses to pretend anything is simple, or anyone an abstract. Also she likes to bathe in milk and take cocktail breaks, but that's all part of the care package. Backlash is always making a push for respectability, in the guise of "debate", but the idea that liberation must be earnt by argument, rather than simply granted, is surely one of the crappiest our culture has clung to. Argument's not how you understand something, understanding requires love and study. Not that love and understanding need go hand in hand; if you don't understand something, just send love on ahead. But Wynn – both a trans woman, and the receiver of sustained abuse from trans twitter herself – tries harder than most to understand, and she does it with love and opulence.
"When you dehumanise the villains, you become unable... to recognise... the villain... within...
How is she though? She needs a hot toddy is what she needs."
P.S. You might want to help out with this.
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