{"id":1510567,"date":"2022-06-10T14:50:09","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510567"},"modified":"2022-06-10T14:50:37","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T18:50:37","slug":"matt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/matt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt On Matt: Old-School Liberal Taibbi Reviews \u2018What Is A Woman?\u2019 And Pans The Radical Left"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fmatt-on-matt-old-school-liberal-taibbi-reviews-what-is-a-woman-and-pans-the-radical-left%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1510567&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/what-is-a-woman-a-movie-that-should?s=r\">Matt Taibbi<\/a> simultaneously reviewed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\">The Daily Wire<\/a>\u2019s new documentary \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d and the state of the modern Left, and was much kinder to the former than the latter.<\/p>\n<p>Part of a dying breed of liberals who predate the requirement to sync up with \u201cthought leaders\u201d 25 years and untold IQ points their junior \u2013 fellow Substack exile <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/glenn-greenwald\">Glenn Greenwald<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/bill-maher\">Bill Maher<\/a> come to mind \u2013 Taibbi cut his teeth in the Hunter S. Thompson Gonzo Journalism Chair at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rolling-stone\">Rolling Stone<\/a>, where he covered politics in the early 2000s. Neither the Left nor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/rolling-stone\">Rolling Stone<\/a> are what they used to be, but <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/journalist-matt-taibbi-scorches-anti-racism-author-robin-diangelos-new-book-unreadable-and-morally-disgusting\">Taibbi<\/a> hasn\u2019t changed much.<\/p>\n<p>Wryly noting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">the film<\/a>, in which Matt Walsh takes on the radical transgender ideology movement by asking gibberish-spewing activists the film\u2019s eponymous question, is \u201csimultaneously the most talked-about and most ignored documentary in the world,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/what-is-a-woman-a-movie-that-should?s=r\">Taibbi dives in<\/a> like a man who can no longer be canceled.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d A Movie That Should Be Reviewed, For One Thing,\u201d reads the headline on <a href=\"https:\/\/taibbi.substack.com\/p\/what-is-a-woman-a-movie-that-should?s=r\">Taibbi\u2019s Substack<\/a>. \u201cMatt Walsh pranks the pants off America\u2019s silliest intellectuals, and the sad thing is, it wasn\u2019t hard at all.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">CLICK TO JOIN THE DAILY WIRE AND WATCH THE GROUNDBREAKING DOCUMENTARY \u201cWHAT IS A WOMAN?\u201d<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Taibbi doesn\u2019t say where he stands on Walsh\u2019s central question and even confesses to recently hesitating to post his own interview with a feminist critic of the ideology out of fear of \u201cblowback.\u201d He worries at one point about someone being legitimately transphobic and says he \u201cviolently\u201d disagrees with Walsh on many topics. Yet Taibbi sympathizes with flyover folks who recoil as hulking biological male and reigning NCAA swimming champ Lia Thomas \u201cmassacres\u201d a pool full of relatively tiny women. Castigating into silence people with questions is no way to win an argument, in Taibbi\u2019s view.<\/p>\n<p>But that is precisely the way the new Left enforces its groupthink compliance, and it is on display in Taibbi\u2019s career arc as clearly as it is in \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d Taibbi credits Walsh for gamely and bravely engaging on what has become the latest third rail of neoliberalism. And he faults many of the film\u2019s pro-trans interview subjects, who \u201cmock themselves\u201d by dismissing the most basic question of all with scornful gobbledygook.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost are used to having their bullshit rubber-stamped and don\u2019t realize they\u2019re playing themselves,\u201d writes Taibbi, who cites a college professor triggered by Walsh\u2019s \u201ctransphobic\u201d use of the word \u201ctruth.\u201d \u201cWalsh is a ham and a satirist, a creature we never used to see on the political right decades ago. The verbose absurdity of modern leftist thought, coupled with the astonishing absence of a sense of humor in the landscape from whence the most extreme ideas come, has willed conservative comedy into being.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>One interview subject who Taibbi aptly describes as \u201cwell-meaning\u201d and a \u201cgood sport,\u201d does try to engage on the issue. Gert Comfrey, a Tennessee marital and family therapist, a biological female who claims to be a man, delivers an incomprehensible ramble about \u201cmodalities\u201d and \u201ccertain imperatives\u201d before cutting to the chase.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe know now that\u2026 some women have penises, right?\u201d Comfrey says. \u201cSome men have vaginas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If humankind\u2019s collective understanding of basic biology has done a 180-degree turn in the last five minutes, people have a right to scratch their heads, Taibbi posits.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe message of\u00a0\u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d<em>\u00a0<\/em>is not only are there no simple answers to the questions and reservations felt by millions of ordinary people about \u2018gender affirmation\u2019 (including huge numbers of Democrats, as polls\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/gen.medium.com\/too-many-democrats-in-florida-support-the-dont-say-gay-bill-520a350cf62\">in places like Florida<\/a> show), but the movie shows academic after academic and activist after activist seething at the mere implication that they should have to explain themselves,\u201d Taibbi writes. \u201cTheir attitude is positively medieval: \u2018We keep the Bible in Latin for a reason!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Noting that the liberal media has squelched as \u201cbigotry\u201d any earnest questions about \u201cwhat by any estimation is an incredibly difficult subject,\u201d Taibbi acknowledges that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\">The Daily Wire<\/a> is one of the few organizations able to make a documentary like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe-v2\">What is a Woman?<\/a>\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Taibbi canvased a handful of fellow liberals \u201cwho\u2019ve gotten in the soup over this issue.\u201d They agreed that the film was skillfully executed, and one praised Walsh for taking himself \u201cless seriously than the people he interviewed.\u201d But some feminists bristled at the final scene, in which Walsh performs the purportedly deeply sexist task of opening a jar for his wife.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBut overall, I\u2019d say these figures rated the movie a net plus,\u201d Taibbi said of his focus group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-cmdiie e1ttcx5v0\"><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/news\/trans-man-angry-star-of-what-is-a-woman-says-film-is-helping-healing-process\">TRANS MAN, ANGRY HERO OF \u2018WHAT IS A WOMAN?\u2019 SAYS FILM IS HELPING HEALING PROCESS<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Left\u2019s hostile unwillingness to explain its ever-changing social and cultural doctrines is about to have political consequences, Taibbi warns. Democrats are poised to get blown out in the midterm elections, and at least part of the reason is their impatience with common people who keep missing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Matt Taibbi simultaneously reviewed The Daily Wire\u2019s new documentary \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d and the state of the modern Left, and was much kinder to the former than the latter. 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