What is a Woman? Review: Thought-provoking, controversial and probably a dark turning-point for American individualism
In The Daily Wire’s new documentary directed and produced by Justin Folk and helmed and represented by podcast and conservative commentator Matt Walsh, the film starts off with a tour-de-force and begs the question, “What is a woman?”
Of course, that is just the start of the whole debacle between the social constructs behind the meaning of gender and gender fluidity.
Walsh explains that he has children of his own and he is both concerned and confused about whether or not his kids will one day identify as a different gender than what their doctors previously recognized — not assigned, by the way, but I’ll get back to that later.
Walsh travels all over America and spots in Africa to gauge their views of transgenderism and how and why people can identify the way that they do. A few people make some ardent sense in that children should not be able to choose their own gender the same way that they should not be able to legally drink or vote.
However, there are others on the opposite side of the spectrum that believe it is totally normal to randomly change your gender while, in the same breath, calling transable people, or people that desire to have some sort of disability, mentally ill.
Walsh showcases the hypocrisy of these people that espouse this ideological nonsense that aims to hurt children and people, in general, more than it does in helping who they are and pushes a narrative that creates more chaos and confusion when dealing with the social pressures of reality.
My take on the film is that, while I don’t agree with everything that Walsh says — his take on sex work not being real work is a point I can’t side with him on — I respect him and appreciate tha he sheds some much-needed light on a topic that is bombarded with praise and ass-kissing out of fear for hurting someone’s feelings and getting cancelled.
When Walsh traveled to Africa and he talked to the natives about gender fluidity in the states, the African tribe laughed in astonishment and had never heard of men and women switching gender roles. The natives realize that there is a pecking order that must be adhered to and if those traditionalist roles of man and woman are not met, the family unit collapses.
Of late, it’s been Gen Z that has fostered and perpetuated this thinking of gender fluidity more than any other generation, which seems to have led them to more depression and anxiety in the years to come.
I don’t say any of this to besmirch the LGBTQ community but the idea of gender fluidity taking over the minds of young impressionable children will do more harm than good in the long run.
I wrote an article earlier in the year about why GEN Z content makes people more depressed. Since this generation and many others before it have been so sex-obsessed, especially in the media, and use outside and external content to validate our sense of self-worth, it becomes hard to look within to find peace when so many people look outward.
Throughout the film, Walsh simply asks a question that seems offensive to some but is probably the most sound and profound in the year 2022 that needs to be heard.
4 / 5 stars