Her videos are cool as shit for the most part and have helped me ( a cis straight dude)

Understand trans and queer culture better fwiw.

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    Anticommunist white queer folks can still analyze systems of oppression as it relates to them, but being unable to practice intersectionality beyond “you can be A and B at the same time” and utterly rejecting materialism in favor of civility politics is a red flag.

    Releasing a 4 hour video where the gist is that there are antisemites infiltrating our uwu queer leftist spaces sounds like wrecker behavior though.

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    Don’t make me put you on the shelf next to Contrapoints, Jessie Gender. It’ll break my heart. snipes-hesitation

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    Content consumption isn’t praxis. Parasocial relationships are real but not material. Examine all media critically. Jesse gender is good when she’s good and bad when she’s bad. If her analysis is based on bad faith arguments, poor framing, low context, lack of empirical studies, etc. then it should be criticized on those grounds. Parasocially liking someone should be something you try to not let control you. It’s a one way window after all.

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    I enjoyed her content until her why-I’m-voting-for-Biden video, after which I unsubscribed from and blocked her channels. The fact that Jessie has always had (leftist) political content in her videos makes it impossible for me to just write her off as another liberal being a liberal. It’s like watching a video of someone who I thought was amateur space historian stubbornly argue that the moon landings are fake – they should know better.

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    If you’re a trans woman and you have a silver play button, there was generally a regrettable chain of events that allowed that to happen. The algorithm will scarcely allow anyone actually cool to reach that level of success.

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    Watching people go to bat for or seek validation of their parasocial relationships is so weird to me. Like she makes some youtube videos, if you like some of them great, if you don’t, fine. If you disagree with enough that you stop caring about her views on anything else then stop watching. Or maybe just stop watching in general because there are definitely better informed people with better takes out there that you could be reading. It’s entertainment, as long as it’s not all literal brain rot who gives a fuck if other people like it or not.