Going back to rewatch all her videos for the first time.

[u/yalamayu]

I'm on Autogynephilia now. She's more of a fucking goofball than I remember. I'm also much better versed in trans issues and culture, and nazi bullshit, than I was in 2017. So it's like watching them anew, and her points sink in deeper.

I got canceled (more like mobbed) by a bunch of white women in a lefty community where I lived over the pandemic, so I know Canceling is going to rock on rewatch.

Share highlights from your favorite videos?

[u/MissFreeHope]

twlight is probably my favourite. as someone who struggles with shame and sexuality it hit me pretty hard.

[u/_Jaysir_ → u/MissFreeHope]

Twilight is rlly fantastic. I could only watch Twilight once bc it was so intellectually intense & beyond myself that i couldn’t watch it like anything else she’s covered. Somehow hegemonic Str8 culture was more confusing than any queer topic. I also loved how abstract it was … like neither provable or factual but encouraged u 2 reflect.

[u/QuaxlyDuck → u/_Jaysir_]

Every so often when comments on this subreddit talk about watching twilight and being fascinated by how intellectual it is, I forgot they mean they contrapoints video and think they're talking about the movie series it's based on

[u/Lonely_Cupcake1727 → u/MissFreeHope]

Exact same!!

[u/Away-Sheepherder9402 → u/MissFreeHope]

I love twilight so fucking much liike.. It really scratches an itch. I rewatched it for safely the sixth time last night.

[u/muticere]

Off the dome some of my favorite moments

Autogynephelia: the running jokes about sex robots and the line "alright you edgy fuck, let's hear it". Also the observation about how cis women sexualize themselves and the double standard for trans women.

Incels (my first vid of hers I saw): her tossing her phone behind her, hearing it audibly clatter to either the floor or her seat and saying "I'm just to famous for this shit. My life is hard." ngl, that was the moment I clicked subscribe. Also "Bread Scientist" and "Abigail, leave my fuck-hole out of this!"

Cringe: The one and only time I'll ever intentionally learn anything about Chris Chan

Envy: The entirety of Justice part 2, especially her reactions to how pathetic Friedrich Nietzsche's life was.

Twilight: just the fact that she made this, that she tied the Twilight fandom in with so many important concepts surrounding love, romance, literature, shame, and repression. As a day-one Twilight apologist, this made my heart super happy.

I need to go rewatch her vids too, I think, it's been a minute.

[u/sans_serif_size12 → u/muticere]

The entire sex robot thing cracks me up every time I rewatch Autogynephelia. First time I watched it, it was the first time I thought about my gender seriously

[u/muticere → u/sans_serif_size12]

"You just..." look of dumbfounded disbelief "you just found a person who built a sex robot!"

kills me every time.

Also love the line "Great Science Writing!"

[u/yalamayu → u/sans_serif_size12]

"The fucksaw incident. Google it."

(This time, I did!)

[u/kardigan → u/muticere]

i forgot about bread scientist, i love that so much

[u/kardigan]

Are Traps Gay was the first one i got hyperfocused on (and to a lesser extent, but in a smilar way, Pronouns). it just unlocked my mind that there is a difference between "it's not kind to say" and "it's literally not true", and once you understand the latter, not saying the unkind thing will just be natural. but traps had the added part at the end where she talks about how being gay is not a bad thing, and i do regularly think of this video when an argument starts to get lost in the details.

and Gender Critical, mostly because "scholars remain divided".

[u/CJMakesVideos]

Better than you were in 2027? Bro i need to know what’s the future like? Is the crazy Orange man still in charge of the US government?

[u/yalamayu → u/CJMakesVideos]

edited lol

[u/CJMakesVideos → u/yalamayu]

Lol. So I guess that means you can’t tell me the future huh.

[u/_Jaysir_]

It’s quite sad watching Contrapoints’ silliness die down. By The Hunger, the energy became quiet. I stopped rewatching 4 fun & only planned watching 4 intellectual reasons.

My highlights r everytime Natalie did drag or a Socratic text. Obsessed with her arguing between drag personas. Probably y my favourite video is Transtrenders. The way Contrapoints made me learn by staring @ art & drama is probably the best way anybody has ever taught me.

[u/AltWorlder]

“Playing BaCHHHHHH at the piano”

I rewatch Cringe and Envy a lot. I love all her videos, but those speak to the breadth of the human experience in a way that doesn’t make me feel any particular anger. Whereas obviously some of her videos, like the JKs Rowling adventures or Conspiracism, are about maddening, sometimes evil people.

[u/dodorampant]

Autogynephilia was the first real tip-tapping on my eggshell. Rewatching it after coming out, all the gross Blanchard shit again kinda fucked me up for a while. I still sometimes shave my knuckles because of that. Believe content warnings, y’all!

[u/SyrupFuzzy5557]

I do a rewatch in the lead up to every video since I discovered her (admittedly that’s only been since Witch Trials). The only one I skip is Shame, that one feels a bit close to home.