{"id":1514656,"date":"2022-06-14T07:52:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1514656"},"modified":"2022-06-14T07:52:29","modified_gmt":"2022-06-14T11:52:29","slug":"what-is-a-woman-documentary-displays-chilling-hostility-to-truth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/what-is-a-woman-documentary-displays-chilling-hostility-to-truth\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Is A Woman?\u2019 Documentary Displays Chilling Hostility To Truth"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/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%2Fwhat-is-a-woman-documentary-displays-chilling-hostility-to-truth%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=1514656&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--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/Women-e1655144914570.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>What makes a question taboo? In a culture that champions dialogue and scientific inquiry, it would seem that anything is fair game. According to the documentary \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d that\u2019s not the case.<\/p>\n<p>Produced by conservative news outlet The Daily Wire, the 1-hour and 35-minute film \u2014 this month rated number one for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rottentomatoes.com\/browse\/movies_at_home\/sort:popular\">\u201cMovies at Home\u201d on Rotten Tomatoes<\/a> \u2014 follows author, speaker, and podcast host Matt Walsh as he travels across the country and overseas, seeking an answer to the title question.<\/p>\n<p>As a cultural commentator, Walsh has made clear what he (and up until recently, every human civilization) believes a woman is: an adult human female. Yet with a tongue-in-cheek ignorance, Walsh opens the film feeling overwhelmed by conflicting messages about gender identity and sets out to find the truth.<\/p>\n<p>The dramatized ignorance gives the film a touch of humor as well as objectivity. To each one of his interviewees (conservative or progressive), Walsh never argues for a viewpoint but only asks questions.<\/p>\n<h2>Unsettling Question<\/h2>\n<p>But throughout the documentary, what stands out is not so much Walsh\u2019s question but the reactions to it. When he asks, \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d to passersby in New York City and Hollywood, he\u2019s answered with silence and nervous laughter. \u201cI honestly don\u2019t know,\u201d says one.<\/p>\n<p>The experts in academia and medicine also deflect the question. \u201cI\u2019m not a woman, so I can\u2019t really answer that,\u201d says a therapist. \u201cIt could mean many things to many people,\u201d says a pediatrician. \u201cWhat do <em>you<\/em> think?\u201d says a professor.<\/p>\n<p>Those are the friendlier responses. After repeating his question at the Women\u2019s March in Washington, D.C., the marchers accuse him of harassment and start chanting \u201c-ssh-le\u201d as he walks by. In the one-on-one interviews with doctors, researchers, and a congressman, several of them abruptly call to end the interview. The congressman lasts the shortest.<\/p>\n<p>Why is the question so unsettling? Perhaps because it seeks a definite answer.<\/p>\n<p>One particular interview makes this clear. When Walsh tells a professor that he\u2019s asking the question because he wants to find the truth, the professor bristles and asks that he stop using terms that are transphobic and rude.<\/p>\n<p>In all likelihood, this professor and other interviewees would have jumped to answer the more open-ended question, \u201cWhat does womanhood mean to you?\u201d But the basic inquiry \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d full-stop ruffles feathers because it asks for something universal.<\/p>\n<h2>Lack of Definition \u2014 and Reality<\/h2>\n<p>That\u2019s a problem for our culture, since there is nothing universal about the people who identify as women, either biologically or temperamentally. Apparently, an athletic lesbian is just as much a woman as a someone \u201cassigned\u201d male at birth who grew up liking Barbie dolls, and both are as much a woman as an hourglass-shaped pop star.<\/p>\n<p>What do these people have in common? The world\u2019s answer: they don\u2019t need to have anything in common, because womanhood is whatever anyone wants it to be. It\u2019s all personal, it\u2019s all relative \u2014 so it\u2019s all meaningless.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s unsettling enough to confront moral relativism as an abstract idea, but it\u2019s downright chilling to see it in real people who let it dictate their lives \u2014 and would have it dictate others\u2019 too. Throughout the film, everyone who supports gender ideology cannot make <em>any <\/em>firm claim about reality. \u201cWhat if my truth is that I\u2019m a black man?\u201d Walsh (who is very white) asks the professor, who pauses and then responds, \u201c<em>Are<\/em> you?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat if my truth is that you don\u2019t exist?\u201d Walsh asks one woman. \u201cFine, then to you I don\u2019t exist,\u201d she shrugs.<\/p>\n<h2>Moral Relativism<\/h2>\n<p>In order for gender to be fluid, reality itself must be relative. To seek \u201c<em>the<\/em> truth\u201d is offensive because it might step on the toes of \u201c<em>my<\/em> truth.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>This brings us back to the easily triggered interviewees. Driven by feelings, moral relativism is all niceness and tolerance until someone pokes at it with an appeal to truth, and then it can only lash out like a child.<\/p>\n<p>We might read about such responses in anecdotes or articles, but seeing them happen in real conversations on screen makes it starkly clear: Our culture has murdered truth, and as a result, it is a weak and insecure creature. What\u2019s more, it can only destroy itself, because when someone declares that \u201cmy truth\u201d is hatred, violence, or terrorism, relativism has no moral power to call it wrong.<\/p>\n<p>Walsh\u2019s documentary doesn\u2019t offer much in terms of healing mainstream culture, but for anyone who wants to try, examining that culture up close is a key first step. For that, \u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d is a must-watch.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWhat is a Woman?\u201d is available to stream on <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/videos\/what-is-a-woman\"><em>DailyWire.com<\/em><\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator\" \/>\n<div class=\"article-author-description fst-italic\">\n  Sophia Martinson is a wife, mom, and <a href=\"https:\/\/sophiamartinson.wixsite.com\/writer\">freelance culture writer<\/a> for various publications. Her blog, <a href=\"http:\/\/homemakerhopeful.com\/\">Homemaker Hopeful<\/a>, explores the skills of taking care of home and family.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What makes a question taboo? In a culture that champions dialogue and scientific inquiry, it would seem that anything is fair game. 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