Top 19 ContraPoints Quotes

More than 40 per cent of my viewers are female. When I do meetups and events, oftentimes the majority of people who show up are LGBTQ+. So I’m looking forward to better serving that community of fans.

The visual elements of the videos, the makeup and the costumes… these things have nothing to do with justice and truth, but nonetheless, it really changes the experience of the video.

As a prominent trans person, you hope that someone feels they know you and then thinks of you at the polls; you hope to impact the way they act when they encounter a trans person in real life.

Politics is always antagonistic and tribalistic. But social media puts us in isolated information bubbles. We’re not just disagreeing on politics. We’re disagreeing on reality in very fundamental ways.

There are things you can say in the voice of a fictional character that you could not explore any other way.

I watch a lot of YouTube makeup tutorials. I also watch a lot of channels where all they do is eat inhumanly huge amounts of food. I’m trash, basically, is what I’m saying.

When I was a prepubescent child, I never really had experiences of gender dysphoria. This is not something that started until adolescence.

It’s going to take me less time to wreck Ben Shapiro than it took me to curl my hair.

What really excites me is the prospect of making people actually enjoy thinking about difficult topics, to laugh even while seriously engaging these very unpleasant subjects.

I’m not really the type of person who is going to make heartfelt, 20-minute vlogs. That’s just not really who I am.

I listen to a lot of standup comics.

That’s one thing I learned in my philosophy training – if you’re writing a paper on Aristotle, you have to first show that you understand him. Then you can make your counterargument.

I kind of hate the fact that I feel like people expect you to announce what you are, and then you become it. I would rather become the thing and then name it.

I didn’t understand how difficult it would be to transition in the public eye and look back at pre-transition videos – it’s sort of humiliating and painful.

I dropped out of my Ph.D. philosophy program at Northwestern in the summer of 2015, in my mid-20s. I kind of had the idea of writing fiction, and so I was working on that for a year but without ever having very much success at it.

I’ve been harassed. I’ve been stalked. I’ve had every public pre-transition photo of me compiled alongside my deadname with the purpose of never letting me be my true gender.

A debate is a very specific kind of performance.

Almost as soon as I came out as trans, there was a spike in online harassment more vicious than anything I’d experienced before. It turns out there are many people who spend a good portion of their spare time making life as miserable as possible for trans people.

In grad school, I led a bit of a double life. I don’t mean gender-wise – I just mean intellectually.