Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints) mentioned Fifty Shades of Grey by E. L. James 6 times

Christian Grey is not a groper. Have you even read it?

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

I'm drawing from a lot of different sources from the history of the romance novel or from the philosophy of Desire or from online debates about 50 shades of gray from a number of years ago right, so you know it's like a wide variety of stuff that I'm engaging with and I think that you know when I say past experience [...] I read Pride and Prejudice in the past so I know of this lineage and literature but I'll revisit it as research.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

In the 2000s it was "Twilight", and then in the 2010s, it was the "Twilight" fanfiction "Fifty Shades of Grey". At the time I'm making this video, it's a novelist called Colleen Hoover, who's sold six trillion books about dangerous alpha males named Ryle. I promise that in whatever year you're watching this video, there's currently some lady novelist who's caused an outrage writing stories about a dangerous, wealthy, controlling alpha male.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

Thanks Jessica, you read all three fifty shades "in a fugue state at a very dark time in my life" I've done that multiple times...

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

Like I read 50 Shades of Grey years ago and totally identified with the fantasy, and later I thought that was evidence I had normative female desires. Never mind that I was identifying with the midlife crisis fantasies of a repressed English housewife longing to be brutalized by a capitalist tyrant. I mean, not to shame women who genuinely do enjoy a healthier version of that fantasy, I think a lot of women pointlessly suffer under a kind of feminist guilt about that.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)

Like in 50 Shades of Grey (which I read for research purposes) there’s some description of Christian’s hot bod and his hot abs, but it’s not the main thing by any means.

— Natalie Wynn (Contrapoints)