Fifteen minutes in i stopped everything i was doing with this in the background and locked in, undistracted. This actually improved my mental clarity to fix a lot of what im going through right now even with just the things referenced from 15-40 minutes in.
Just found this channel today and already I can quite comfortably say that this woman has one of the most powerful and important voices on the internet. God fucking bless her. Fan for life here.
As someone that DID hold up Twilight as a love standard (and has since grown away from my entire self worth hinging on my romantic relationships), this is borderline spiritual for me. I did a pretty wide loop between loving Twilight, to hating it, to loving it for the meme, and now to seeing it solely as art, that can be enjoyed thoroughly, but should be taken with a grain of salt because it's FICTION, not a manual on love. Your videos never disappoint, Natalie. Thank you <3
I waited patiently, and I got what I was waiting for. Thanks girl queen, you are my favorite person. After watching, what I have to say: You did great.
You can't substitute 'transgenderism' for 'homosexuality' because they are qualitatively different. Just because i) they are both aspects of human sexuality and ii) both were effectively hidden for centuries doesn't mean that a sentence which was critical of homosexuality can be cut and pasted into a sentence critical of trnasgenderism doesn't mean it this is what trans critics feel. Personally, I was never hostile to homosexuals (male or female) and I always wanted them to be left alone and allowed to have a happy life. In the same way, I'm not hostile to trans people merely because they are trans. I am happy for trans people to desire society to treat them as their chosen gender *when it is fair and reasonable* to do so. But I think it's reasonable for society to reserve the right to refuse to treat them as their chosen gender when it is not fair and reasonable. That sort of argument usually prompts a 'thin edge of the wedge' response: it goes something like this 'society has to treat us, or treat trans people, exactly the way wet/they demand to be treated otherwise trans people and young trans people in particular will suffer prejudice and bullying'. But what that means is that prejudice against and bullying of trans people needs to be addressed and stopped; it doesn't mean that society as a whole must accept that only the solution that trans people and activists believe in is the one that must be adopted. It is a clear error to imagine that only people from the right-wing of the political spectrum don't accept what trans activists consider to be the orthodox position; probably only right-wingers are trans haters, but that doesn't mean that people - like JKR - who challenge that orthodoxy are trans haters, let alone right wingers. She has donated to the Labour Party, which is much further left than the Democrats, which makes her left wing rather than right.
When people say "I don't have faith in electoralism as a potitical strategy" it sounds to my ears like "I don't have faith in hamstring stretches as a way to improve my cardio." It's true that no amount of hamstring stretches will improve your cardio, but I promise you, keeping on top of your cardio is MUCH easier if your hamstrings are in good nick.
Everything about this video essay was so captivating, and really thoughtfully put together. I wish I had this in writing as well. I feel a deep urge to read this over and over again.
You are gorgeous! Take it from me… a cis woman, bisexual but also monogamous and married to a man…which I guess atm makes me hetro… anyway I think you look great but more importantly you are smart and funny and, well, I guess I am a bit of a fan. I would love to meet you for coffee, but I’m in the antipodes.
So in the semester that I burnt out of college, I took a class called Philosophy of Sex and Love (that I never got to finish because of the aforementioned burnout.) Watching this video felt like getting to finish that class. Hell, the first half of the video even mirrors what I remember of the class! I remember reading excerpts from Plato's Symposium, doing readings from Freud and Simone de Beauvoir. I even remember Augustine with the whole "lust is inherently perverted" thing! I just wanted to say thanks and that watching this video felt like a healing experience for me, and a reminder that there is always more than one path in life. Certain circumstances may end (like going to university) but that doesn't mean that the experiences they facilitated to are lost to us (like gaining new knowledge and understanding about sex and love.)
