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**ContraPoints** is a [YouTube](YouTube "wikilink") channel run by
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Natalie Wynn known for its humour, nuance and intelligence. She
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advocates for left-wing positions around [gender](gender "wikilink"),
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[race](Race_\(Category\) "wikilink") and
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[capitalism](capitalism "wikilink"), while also providing a strong
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intellectual defense against the [Alt-Right](Alt-Right "wikilink"),
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[Jordan Peterson](Jordan_Peterson "wikilink"), [Gender Critical
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Feminists](Gender_Critical_Feminism "wikilink"),
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## Contra-versies
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Despite being by far the most popular [socialist](Socialism "wikilink")
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and [queer](Queer_Culture "wikilink") political figure on YouTube,
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Despite her overwhelming support from fans, she often faces criticism
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from other leftists, trans and non-binary people, specifically on
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Twitter and Tumblr, due to views she has that they perceive as
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transmedicalist or exclusionary towards non-binary people.
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### *The Aesthetic*
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In September 2018, her video “The Aesthetic” caused controversy due to
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what many saw as a sympathetic portrayal of the character Justine, who
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viewed gender strictly through an (as the title implies) aesthetic lens
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rather than a personal one. Many former fans abandoned her after this
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video.
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### Pronouns
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In August 2019, she tweeted that the practice common in progressive
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spaces of people being in a circle and giving their pronouns while
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introducing themselves makes her feel
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uncomfortable,<sup>\[58\]\[59\]</sup> causing a firestorm on Twitter and
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eventually leading to her briefly deactivating her
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account.<sup>\[60\]</sup> Many fans, mostly her friends and BreadTube
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peers but also some unwelcome figures such as right-wing hacks like Ian
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Miles Cheong, Black Pigeon Speaks and Blaire White<sup>\[61\]</sup>
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jumped to her defense, saying that she was taken out of context and was
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merely speaking about her own personal discomfort with pronoun circles
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rather than dismissing them as a whole. Before the deactivation, she
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further infuriated some by saying that she felt like “the last of the
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old school transsexuals” and that she was sympathetic to those who were
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worried about the future of trans acceptance due to “radicals” that did
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not pass or fit inside the gender binary. After briefly handing over
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control of her account to an assistant, Gwen "the Quen" Kruger, she has
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since <s>decided to return to Twitter on the 2nd of
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October.</s><sup>\[62\]</sup> Nope, sorry, she permanently left again on
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the 6th of November.<sup>\[63\]</sup>
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### Buck Angel
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After her release of the video "Opulence" on October 12th, 2019 she was
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criticised for letting trans male pornographic actor, sex educator and,
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more controversially, <s>truscum</s> "transmedicalist" Buck Angel appear
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briefly in the video as the voice of John Waters.<sup>\[64\]</sup> Angel
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has also spoken out against non-binary gender identities, causing many
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people to speak out against Wynn for collaborating with someone who is
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transmedicalist and nonbinary-phobic, which in the process re-ignited
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multiple previous contra-versies relating to these subjects. On November
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6, Wynn announced that she would leave Twitter, this
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tLd.<sup>\[65\]</sup>
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### Other thigs
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People that are further left on the political spectrum than her, such as
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Marxist-Leninists, left communists and anarchists have beef with her as
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well. They often accuse her of being a liberal who does not do enough to
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advance the leftist cause that is the supposed basis of much of her
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career, in some cases mirroring her relationship with other trans
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people. One of her characters, Tabby, can be seen as a caricature of
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those further left than her, which doesn't exactly help matters.
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