Just to address since I see a few comments asking; this video was just on the disingenuous framing of the film. Part 2, as I say in the video, will be a point by point breakdown of Walsh’s actual arguments. But it was important to point out first that none of the film was made in good faith first. Wish I could have released both parts at the same time but alas, welcome to needing to release content to survive. So be patient, don’t worry, this is just the start. And to those in bad faith asking “What is a woman” despite me literally pointing out how bad faith the question is in the video, don’t worry, you’ll get your answer next video. Tho I’d recommend Lily Alexandre’s work if you need an answer right now.
@homo sexual feminine mal6 whistleblower confession the fact that she isn’t male, duh. Would you say that to me a feminine trans man? Or will you tell me why couldn’t I be a feminine female?
His question reminds me of a classic exchange between a zen master and the dahli lama fro a dharma “battle”. The zen master produces an orange demanding “what is this”, the answer after consulting the translator was, “don’t you guys have oranges where you come from?” i figure if Walsh still doesn’t know after 4 kids and marriage, he’s in pretty deep trouble
Is the movie in good faith ? No it's obvious it's not. However the idea that something is true just because you really really believe it, is religious magical thinking on the same level as any other religion. Just because you believe something to be true does not make it true. Imagine if we applied magical thinking to other areas "it really hurts my feelings when you disagree with me that 2+2=15 !"
I can't get over how mat is simultaneously arguing points like "wearing a dress doesn't make a woman" and "if you wear a dress you're no longer a man" even thou they contradict because what actually makes a woman isn't the point it's just cruelty. The dude just straight up said he's a fascist and somehow he managed to go lower and lower past bedrock.
They really want to get to decide who gets to be "A Real [Gender](TM)" and force the ones that fail it to grovel to meet the hierarchical standards. They want to be the gender police and suspend your gender rights and you only get them back after their system deems you to have paid enough for your crime.
"Give my son a BB gun and that's about all the emotional support he needs. My daughter on the other hand..." Man, I feel so bad for both the children of Matt Walsh :') Not him calling his daughter too needy? Indirectly shaming her? And treating his son like he has no feelings? Scratch that, I feel bad for all the humans who come into contact with him. Such ideas hurt all genders. That man is clearly emotionaly stunted and needs therapy, not a public platform for those sexist and harmful ideas. Sounds like the kind of person who'd say "life's unfair, suck it up buttercup". Then, he should take own advice, and suck it up, instead of complaining on the internet and trying to tell other people how to live :D
Having dealt with many extreme right types in my lifetime, the sad thing is their kids usually end up one of 2 ways. The first, being someone who requires a lot of help dealing with mental issues caused by the toxic households they grew up in. They usually turn out to be decent people after they get the help that they need. The second, being kids that follow their parents and become as closed-minded and hateful as their parents are/were. These are the types that we had to deal with 5 years ago here in Charlottesville and the government had to deal with on 1/6/21.
Men not needing emotional support and just needing LITERALLY a gun is the exact attitude which leads to high suicide rates in men and why there are so many mass shootings perpetrated by men in the US. It’s not the only factor but it certainly greatly contributes.
@@AurizenDarkstar Just be very wary of confirmation bias. It is perhaps the greatest force dividing the ideologies of the world, and is present in every single one of them.
"It takes two to tango" is a unintentionally funny comment on the fluidity of gender roles, considering that tango got its start among working men in Argentina and would typically be danced by two men. Too bad no one told them that God's plan for tango was for it to be danced by one man and one woman.
@@thenson1Halo I always wipe my butt when I finish defecating, but how you connect that with tango is beyond me. Yes, tango was originally danced by male partners.
@@Draco19970125 Most people's genders match their sex assigned at birth, and a good many others have a firm, non-fluid sense of gender that differs from their sex assigned at birth. Some people do have fluid genders -- that's just an empirical fact. Biological sex isn't exactly fluid, but not everyone fits into a neat male-female dichotomy.
From Matt Walsh’s board wall of woman from 50s advertisements and model magazines leaves the impression that 1: He has never actually seen a woman before through a emotional or personal lenses, essentially suggesting that he’s unable to view woman as people and 2: He believes that there is a very specific idea of where woman belong which is incredibly problematic.
When you consider that Matt has a wife, I really worry if she's even allow to have a functioning brain around Matt. Like seriously, how the hell do you get married, have three kids, and still consider women to be this fucking magic trick of mysteriousness.
@@tashacooper1753 JESUS CHIRST THERE'S MORE!? Please somebody call social services on this man! Even one child isn't safe around Matt let alone *six.* (Obvious joke but don't actually do that)
@@DeadHandtheSurvivor Also with the mystery part he doesn't ask the question "What makes people the gender they are". People once again are forgetting trans men exist on top of misogyny. Ofc if you want to specifically look at the experience of the gender umbrella of women that in itself doesn't make you misogynistic and/or anti - transfem but the way this is done you know it is about treating woman as other worldly and is trying to use trans women to justify transphobic views as it is much easier to frame amab people as evil.
I also find it odd with the "it's ma'am!" woman, ppl are calling her "mannish" "aggressive", "typical male behavior", etc... BUT if this were a cis woman behaving this way, people would be calling her "overly-emotional" "little feisty spitfire", "bitchy", etc
Don't forget "hysterical" which originated as a misogynistic term. It had to do with the belief that a woman's uterus could detach and wander around the body, causing all sorts of psychological ailments, like speaking up for equal rights. No, there's no science to back this up, obviously, but since when has that ever been an obstacle?
We’ll that’s cause people with XY chromosomes are typically more aggressive and Xx chromosome people are more emotional than men. Good job you’re onto smt🙏
@@alexgutierrez6128 I think it's a fine line. I'm a trans woman and back in school I was called a "sissy" quite a bit.... I was always quite emotional and people always said, "You're acting like a GIRL!" But now that I live as a woman, and being the exact same way people will say, "Typical male aggressive behavior" if I raise my voice or anything.... You can't win
@@FrozEnbyWolf150 In my other post as I pointed out if a cis man was behaving that way, Im sure he'd get accused of "acting like a girl" being all emotional, can't control his emotions, FULL of SOY, etc....
@@alexgutierrez6128 actually, testosterone is show to be directly related to increased activity in areas of the brain that regulate emotions. tldr, people with testosterone are scientifically proven to more emotional then people without it
This reminds me of one of the most positive encounters I've ever had with a person who just learned trans people exist. So, I was going to a gym early in my transition, and I'd just stated on T and knew noticeable changes would be eminent. I reached out to the gym and said "Hey, So i'm a trans person and for the comfort of others and myself, I wanted to see if I could get permission to use the group changing rooms (a row of individual rooms fully isolated with a locking door). The Manager emailed me back and said he would love to meet with me and talk. I was nervous but agreed. Next day i go in and meet this amazing strong man with a bright smile. We sat and chatted and he told me he'd spent his evening looking up everything he could about trans people and wanted to know what they could do to make my use of the gym better and more comfortable. I was beside myself. He learned so much just to make sure he could accommodate one person and hope to better the gym for everyone. Anyway, when I see this kind of disingenuous nonsense it makes me sad. The trans community is so varied and vibrant but folks like Walsh will never know. They will never see the joyful tears of a person just being accepted without question. Thats very sad for them.
This is a wonderful story. Many thanks. Have you ever considered how vibrant and happy the community of those who directly oppose both transgender expression, practice and the narrative in general?
@@johngreylove1359 Have you ever listened to transphobes? They are miserable, the only thing they seem to to is complain about trans people, how is that a happy and vibrant community?
You are forcing others into being with you that’s not acceptance. You don’t accept yourself so why should everyone else be forced to accept you dressed up as what you think a women/man is🧢🤡. Unisex changing rooms is one thing but a women/men changing room being forced to accept you isn’t right for everyone else who didn’t agree to it.
@@lastlime3792 okay? advocate for unisex changing rooms like everyone else then. who the fuck actually wants to use public bathrooms lmao they're last resorts the least that can be done is providing way more privacy and well partitioned unisex cubicles are a good means to that end
@@johngreylove1359 yeah, they're miserable and trans people live rent free in their head. anger, anger, anger, hate, hate, hate. wake up in the morning, harass trans people on twitter, eat breakfast, spam trans youtube channels with hateful comments, go to work, spend 9 hours contributing to whatever, go home, watch pundits and shitstirrers and get roused to hate even more. if that's joy to you, I'm truly sorry
And the thing is they don't even really care what a woman *is* but rather what she's *supposed* to be. If a woman doesn't get close enough to their feminine ideal, even if she's cis, they think she needs to learn how to be a "real woman" to be worth the respect of being treated as a woman rather than a defective person who should be a woman. And the idea of what a woman is supposed to be varies a lot from culture to culture, and even throughout time in the same culture. Is she supposed to be outgoing or reserved? Should she be athletic? Delicate? How tall should she be? How much fat is she supposed to have on her body? Does a "real woman" decorate her skin with makeup and tattoos or does she forgo them? What kind of clothes are appropriate for her to wear? How is she supposed to treat her body/facial hair? These will all be different depending on where and even when you ask. Women who don't fit into the approved definition of women are often treated with confusion at the very least or outright scorn or condescending pity
@@morgannyan2738 As for you two: a cat or feline (two overlapping but not necessarily equivalent things, just like woman and female) is not easy to describe finitely either. You are not a cat. There is no fluidity between humans and cats, you never developed into or from being a cat, you probably don’t even talk to cats. Enough.
Identifying as a completely different species is wildly different than identifying as another gender in a species with relatively little sexual dimorphism, and a lot of overlap between biological sexes even in cases where people aren’t visibly intersex or considered intersex at all. You can’t become a cat or have a brain with explicit characteristics of a cat, because we are many years removed from cats on an evolutionary time scale. However, there is very little separating a human male from a human female. Even a person with XY chromosomes may, due to a series of events, have female sex characteristics. Thinking that our brains, our most complex organ, is completely free from these overlaps in sex characteristics when even our general body structure isn’t is absurd. Comparing transgender people to someone identifying as a different species is an argument that’s usually made in bad faith. I’m probably not going to continue a discussion after this
Matt Walsh: All I want to know is honestly, what is a woman? Like an honest answer. Professor: Oh sure, I can explain it. Matt Walsh: *very clearly censors his answer rather than let his audience think or question* His audience: Oh my God he really is speaking truth to power and being completely honest!
I've been recently made aware of how morals are spread through media generally trying to answer their own questions, even when they do show both sides it's usually done to make one look better than the other, the only examples of showing both sides on a level playing field I can think of is arcane and jujutsu kaisen because they show a lot of different views without making one seem more or less fair than the other
@@airplanes_aren.t_real I think HXH and Vinland Saga do a good job with this as well! Dishonored 1 as a game as well, I mean some of the characters aren’t as fleshed out as I would like, but the DLC literally lets you play as the main antagonist! It makes you empathize with all the characters. Wish more media was like that, it’s the most human kind.
@@bee1411 agreed, I've seen a lot of parents complain about the morals taught to their children, not just through media but also teachers and friends because a lot of it is either not applicable or presented as a black and white option Ex: sharing is caring I hope that this type of stuff gets more coverage
@@philipjohn1254 I'd honestly like to hear it because from what we could hear it was fascinating. I wonder if the Professor has a full answer somewhere. He could put it online: "The answer Matt Walsh doesn't want you to hear.", as a sort of tongue-in-cheek jab at Walsh's claims that he's being "censored" while actively censoring anything that doesn't fit his narrative.
It's typical for conservatives of a privileged demographic to speak with so much arrogance on struggles they have no idea about and dismiss the real, lived experiences of people different than them.
You get hate because all y’all do is bitch and moan about inclusion and when you’re included…. Which also means being criticized you cry bigotry and call everyone phobes. Either grow up and accept it or shut up.
"Demons would sometimes use they/them pronouns" For no good reason I want to break this single sentence down. Angels are, to start with, genderless. Even the conservative church I grew up in recognized angels as genderless, though sometimes referred to in a masculine manner, similar to God who is either every gender or no gender. Individuals who are considered demon possessed in the bible do not have a singular demon , they'd have a fucking army in there. They/them is simple practicality when you are sharing a body with a whole legion. The use of they/them has nothing to do with evil. In fact, though the English translation doesn't reflect it, biblically God starts out not being referred to in a gendered manner, but overtime is referred to in the masculine, probably only for the sake of people understanding it easier.
There's a hilarious angelology book I read to kill time at church, where the author insists that angels should be represented as vaguely masculine because it would be "too scary" if they were a blend of male and female. I think the flaming swords are a bit more scary personally
@@necrodeus6811 Skin made of bronze and eyes full of fire is where I'd shit bricks, personally, and if that didn't get me the IMMENSE WINGS THAT BLOCK THE HORIZON WITH THEIR VASTNESS would. I can barely even fathom standing at the foot of the 21 meters tall unicorn Gundam in Japan and I can SEE COMPARISON PICTURES of that, something made of fresh-casted bronze with fiery eyes and sky-wide wings????
Transphobes forget that the use of she and he is a modern addition to the English language. Even with the changes in language, use of they is still the default when referring to a human in general.
Matt using a fishing pole as a benchmarker for why his daughter is different from his son is so hilariously and specifically ‘city conservative’. As someone who grew up in the conservative south just below the Bible Belt, there are entire sects of girls who fish and hunt and do Boy Things because that’s just a part of where we live. Fishing, hunting and mudding are top date activities.
Not quite the same experience, but I grew up in a suburb very close to the coast and various bays. All my friends and I, regardless of gender, were taught to fish by our conservative fathers lol. It was treated like a rite of passage. Because fishing was just considered a fun activity. Who knew, amirite!?
It's also a common tactic of domestic abusers to provoke their victim until the victim reacts, and then use that reaction (often out of context) to "prove" their victim is unstable, incompetent, or "dramatic". As someone who has experienced this far too many times: if anyone, ever, provokes you until you react and then uses that reaction against you, please at least consider exiting that relationship at the earliest safe opportunity.
It's the adult version of the schoolyard "I'm not touching you!" (pokes their fingers 3 inches from your face until you shove them away, then claims you started it because you touched them first)
Just because you are provoked does not mean your actions are justified. If someone keeps mockingly saying something like, “You wish you were capable of stabbing me, loser,” I think we should agree that you should not be able to stab that person. I can be more sympathetic to someone who is provoked, but your actions are your own responsibility.
@@krossraig7370 My point was "someone provoking you so they can use your inevitable reaction against you is a red flag" not "any reaction you make after being provoked is justified". I was focusing on the provoker, not the provokee.
I'm a cisgender woman, who was a cisgender girl growing up, and I would have been thrilled to get a fishing rod for my birthday. I went fishing on my own all the time as a kid. That's the thing that really kills me about these very narrow views of gender and identity; people say, "We all know that's boy stuff," or "We all know that's girl stuff," but there are so many cisgender kids that don't even fall into those categories. And when you point that out, people say that the kids who were anomalies in these narrow definitions were just confused or warped somehow; I liked fishing (and still do now, though I rarely have the chance to go now that I live in a city and don't have a car) because it's peaceful and quiet, I didn't have to talk to anyone and I could just focus on what I was doing without having to worry about an outcome because you just never know if you're going to get a bite or not (this is a built in conceit to fishing, which made it a low pressure activity perfect for just being in the moment and just existing while doing it). There are plenty of humans who wouldn't enjoy fishing as a solo activity, or at all; male or female, cisgender or transgender. Plenty of people that do enjoy fishing. When you get down to the brass tacks of what fishing amounts to as an activity (standing or sitting around waiting for a bite) what does gender have to do with it? And if anyone tries to pull the whole fish are slimy and gross so women and girls don't like fishing: kitchen duties (which are traditionally thought of as women's work/a woman's domain) involved preparing food, which included butchering animals, plucking birds, descaling and gutting fish. Not to mention the huge numbers of meals that call for using intestines and other "gross" parts of an animal. Women were also traditionally involved in slaughtering animals before that became an industrialized process. Womanly constitution can handle some slimy fish, even if individuals may not want to and choose not to.
@@cheers2157 A masculine woman? Why because she likes fishing? You know there are cultures in the world right now that consider fishing to be “women’s work” right? Many tropical islands have women who routinely fish as a matter of course. Often times even for a living. Just for example. Jesus Christ are Americans just fixated on black and white thinking or something? You can literally buy specialised female oriented fishing gear where I live.
@@vylbird8014 It's lazy and tacky to put so little effort into a video that you claim to care about as Matt Walsh and his lackeys did in "What Is A Woman?" They're either inept or soulless, and likely both. That's not really news with conservative political media, though.
@@vylbird8014 Bolster the impression of production value? Like, if you look at the works of Dan Olson or Jacob Gellar or Matt Parker, you can definitely enhance all kinds of non-nature documentary work with clever use of location footage, or just plain good quality custom visuals in general. Pre-covid, most tv documentaries tended to deliver content to the camera while walking to interviews. And that's not to say that there's anything wrong with making a documentary or video essay with obvious B-Roll, but it defintiely offers its benefits.
The point where Patrick realizes Walsh's intent is fascinating to watch and almost sad? He seemed so disappointed and flustered. I think it really shows how people in the alt-right and general bigots conflate debate and interview. Reminds me of the clip from a Ben Shapiro interview where the interviewer did ask genuine questions, and Ben didn't know how to deal with the pressure so he went into debate mode.
yeah i thought honestly the prof was being a good educator. people who teach shouldnt be giving you answers, they should have pushed you to seek the answer yourself, providing the necessary resources for it but not, again, being the one who decide for you what the answer is. even more so when they teach at uni level or higher. wait i had the idea how to tie this point to earnestly respond and add to yours but i lost the thought lmfao damn. rip in peace. 💀💀💀
The strangest thing to me is that the intent of the questioner is the most important thing to Patrick, rather than answering a straightforward question. The answer to a question should not change based on the intent of the asker. It's like a highly religious person realizing that the person asking the question isn't religious and getting flustered because the answer depends on the unquestioning faith of the listener.
@@dawest767 Walsh is holding interviews on false-pretenses, editing his documentary to literally skip when Patrick does answer the question, and asks disingenuous questions expecting a certain answer. That is literally a loaded question fallacy. Also, intent is extremely important in conversations. If I enter a conversation intending to have a good-natured chat, and the person I’m talking to enters the conversation intending to mock me, that will absolutely change how I respond to any questions asked. If Walsh asked Patrick for a debate it would be fine. But he didn’t, Walsh asked Patrick to have an honest conversation, whilst also lying directly to him. Catching people off-guard and pretending like it’s a gotcha moment and blaming the person for being caught off-guard is so elementary level shitty, that it’s insane you don’t realize it
@@RyanKeithLever Unfortunately the "beliefs" that Patrick holds are based purely on ideology and semantics, and not on objective reality. Thus, they can't be defended, and depend upon the listener buying into the ideology. That's why people like him fight so hard to censor and shut down all opposition, because there is no rational or objectively logically defensible argument. A "belief" that can't be logically defended is a garbage belief. There is no political or ideological leaning to that - beliefs that can't be defened with logic are garbage. IF the beliefs had a basis in logic, the intent of the listener would. not. matter. There is no subjectivity in truth.
@@hotcoco2789 All of this would be a lot more convincing if any of those folks interviewed could answer one simple, straight forward question: "What is a woman"? You are effectively telling me that he did ask them this question, that they HAD the answer, that they GAVE said answer and that Walsh edited it out. Considering all the waffling about they do, this seems inlikely. I would be interested in seeing the whole interview unedited, but i sincerely doubt that there was much editing involved, when these people make themselves look THIS bad. The very fact that they start to squirm under certain questions means they RECOGNIZE how controversial the topic is.
I think your analysis of Matt and people like him at the end is very accurate. Before I came out as trans I fell down the the conservative rabbit whole with people like Matt, Ben, and even Steven crowder. Looking back I followed them because they validated what I thought about myself. Their views on trans people were how I thought of myself especially from growing up in a hostile church and home environment, so I didn't watch them to learn or feel good about myself. It was the exact opposite. I watched them to reinforce how much I hated how I felt. Looking back and thinking more critically it is easy to see their flaws in their arguments.
I also went down a similar rabbit hole. But now looking at how they talk about trans people and trans issues I notice how disingenuous, condescending their coverage on trans people is.
To be honest I fail to see what the issue is with some folks being trans, if your cis what skin do you have in that fight beyond supporting defending your lovely trans friends from this sort of unwarranted attack people like Matt Walsh make. If he and his sort laid off people could be who and what they are & every one would be much happier.
@@evilgingerminiatures5820 I think it causes them to question their sexuality if they fall in love with the image of a woman and find out she is trans.
You people missed the point, Matt by saying that meant his son doesn't need explanations on who he is and he is not confused about his personality, he just wants cool stuff which for him is a bb gun and play with it and just be an 8-year old. And it's not that he is deprived of emotional support, no. When I was a kid I just wantes books and Lego's, didn't need any "emotional support" or whatever you guys mean by that. So think about it, because if you don't have any contrargument to that, then you're just hating him for the sake of it. At least that's the way I see it, please explain it to me if you disagree.
@@David232x what he said was his daughter needs emotional support and his son just needs a bb gun... which implies his son doesn't need that kind of support. Which of course he does. Giving him a toy gun is not helping him get through the perils of childhood development. He's acting like his son is incapable of going through emotional distress which is not at all true. What happens when he gets in a fight with his friends? Or one moves away and he's alone in class? Or a family member dies? He still has emotional needs like his sister and his father doesn't even acknowledge it.
@@David232x also a little girl isn't asked what they want for their birthday and say "emotional support". They ask for toys too. It's just for some reason for little girls it's accepted that they are allowed to have emotions but not little boys. Everyone needs someone, needs love, needs attention and help figuring out how to navigate life and learn who they are, regardless of gender
Especially when the professor asked him, and he replied with something along the lines of “you really don’t want to answer the question”. Lmao who’s not wanting to answer the question? Cuz it just sounds like he is the one covering his ears and screaming to not hear the answer
The wild thing is the people he's asking don't even bear the burden of proof; he does. "You seem to take as a premise that woman has a stable definition. I reject that premise. Define 'woman'. Now define 'adult', 'human', and 'female'." And the tunnel--nay, the cave complex--only gets darker for the gender realist from there.
Matt Walsh's answer to the question is "a woman is a female human being". That is kinda the point he is trying to make with this mockumentary, that none of the people who disagree with him HAVE a definition and should therefore be discounted. He is trying to ridicule the people who disagree with him, thus casting doubt on their position.
@@Alexander_Kale His definition has the same problem as the definition he's criticizing, but multiplied threefold. "Adult", "human", and "female" are all culturally constructed. As are "female", "human", and "being". Furthermore, if "female human being" is, in fact, his definition, it fails. On its face, it describes girls--who are not women--and is therefore overinclusive. Furthermore, as I said before, the assumption that Mattricia's interlocutor bears the burden to define "woman" is misplaced. That burden properly falls to the party asserting that a "stable definition" exists. To suppose otherwise is to excuse circular reasoning.
There are two ways to get a high rating on Rotten Tomatoes. The hard way is to make a film so brilliant that it speaks to all people and dazzles everyone. The easy way is to make something so terrible, only those who will love it will attempt to watch it.
Yet another honest, reasonable discussion of an incredibly difficult (and exhausting) topic. I hope you're taking lots of chill time to geek out and do things you enjoy between tackling this documentary, it's not an easy one to get through.
I think the dictionaries ought to have an entry for the “conspiratorial ‘they,’” where the word is used to imply an unspecified shadowy cabal pulling the strings, in sentences like “That’s what they want you to think.”
Someone once told my friend group -- (which had just clawed its way out of christianity and was therefore able to critically consider things without the thought-terminating abject fear that we and our families would be struck down with lightning or something for not being bigots anymore) -- that "trans is a descriptor". And it clicked so hard that I'm pretty sure that all of our descendants got knocked the fuck over. It is absolutely ridiculous for people to say that 'trans women aren't women because they are trans'. May as well say that 'brown-haired women aren't women because they have brown hair'. Black women are women. Short women are women. Fat women are women. Thin women are women. Indigenous women are women. Disabled women are women. Blonde women are women. Trans women are women. There are many different kinds and types of women in this world (...women are diverse, you might say. 🖖🏾✨) Trans women are merely one kind of woman. It's literally not rocket science, and it's sad that so many people (like Matt Walsh) are trying to make things so difficult to understand. o7
There was a case in Ohio, where a transman was asked to use the women's washroom. Even though he was a biological woman, he was out of place in the bathroom. Because of that, a bunch of transphobes beat the crap out of him. It think it speaks volumes about how we perceive gender.
Did Walsh really just say that pronouns describe biological reality? It‘s so weird to me that some people assume that grammatical gender in language has absolutely no point but to convey biological reality. Maybe that‘s because I‘m german and we use feminine, masculine and neuter articles for our nouns. The German sun takes the feminine article and therefore also the feminine pronoun. I know that in Spanish for example, the sun takes the masculine article. Does that mean that speakers of these languages see the sun as either biologically female or male? Of course not. I‘ve also seen English speakers use either “he“ or “she“ for inanimate objects. So why is it so difficult for some people to accept it when human individuals tell them, that they prefer a certain pronoun being used for themselves? We‘ve been using pronouns for our cars and ships all the time and these objects certainly didn‘t care about that. Okay I might add that the objects also couldn‘t correct us about pronouns and maybe that‘s making the difference here. People hate to be wrong. The real problem is not the pronoun itself. It‘s the refusal to accept a person‘s identity when it differs from the own viewpoint about gender. It‘s so frustrating when transphobes use this type of argument. And then there also this whole point of “We can‘t change the rules of grammar“. Hey but at least he‘s right about that: Calling a man a “she“ is often an act of confusion. But that’s not only true for cis men. Most trans and cis men are not comfortable with others referring to them as “she“, or so I‘ve heard.
In the end it's a matter of passing the requirements for a certain optical standard. What I realised is that people like Matt Walsh vilify people like Dylan Mulvaney as examples of how the "trans ideology is bad" because their optics reveal their transition in a sense that they don't look immediately like one or the other binary gender. Identifying a cis man or woman is easy, because mostly they can be recognized and categorized in a simple and easy manner due to the first impression they give off. If a trans person would fit that mold and pass as their identified gender on first glance, then even Matt Walsh wouldn't immediately be able to deduce their transition and therefore wouldn't be inclined to question it, as the societal value of that person in his eyes would conform to his conservative perspective. In the end it really comes down to an inherent acceptance of people for who they are, which people like Matt Walsh can not do for religious reasons for example.
10:05 - "As for men who claim they have many dear friends that are women, they're either gay...or they're lying." This illustrates perfectly something I've seen all too often. I'm an ace guy, and many people in the LGBT community (but *especially* gay men) often act like aces face no discrimination...ignoring that to most people, our asexuality gets interpreted as cloaked homosexuality and are treated accordingly. I hate to hijack, but that moment was just such a wonderful, almost-instantaneous showing of how aces get rolled into the gay demographic by people making generalizations while that's overlooked by the larger queer community.
There's that, it also shows Walsh is utterly disqualified from claiming to represent reality or 'commonsense,' neither of which could *he* define, certainly not by actual social experience or insight.
I also just commented about this moment. I'm an Ace man in a committed relationship with a woman, and my best friend is a female. She actually sent me this video. It feels like these people are projecting their own predator feelings onto others.
Lol I have a female spouse and one of my best friends is a woman. So that makes me gay or a liar? Nice lack of logic dude. Sorry you can't hang out with a chick without your twig and berries taking over of your tiny brain.
@@laurebourgeois7256 I don't know what the "standard man" is, but there are many heterosexual men who have friendships with women, if that's what you're referring to. Also, I think OP's point was that Walsh would characterize men such as himself as "gay", which, according to Walsh himself, he would.
Jessie, this is a masterpiece. You are - as always - so charming and well-researched and SO GODDAMN FUNNY, HOLY SHIT. I am so proud to have you as a friend 😭💜💜💜
This is the true question that everyone should be asking. For there are billions Cis and Trans Women out there in the world and we must find out how we as a species, treats these members of society.
Yep, that's the nub of it. The *only* reason they want to define it is that their simplistic and specious (to simple folk) way of doing so lets them discriminate against transwomen, which is the object of the exercise. Exactly why they're transphobic in this way is an interesting if depressing question.
Yeah, that's kind of how we figure out what we are. (Also it's more common than people think that CIS people also ask themselves that, just not in a verbal and clearly defined way-- a cis woman who feels she "isn't feminine enough" is encountering "what IS a woman" and a cis man who feels bad about not meeting the accepted social definition of "manhood" is encountering "what IS a man".)
@@neoqwerty the second part is also true, I just didn't feel like mentioning it. Cis myself, but it just seemed obvious to that asking that question until arriving at a satisfactory answer would be a basic experience for trans people. That being said, I should remember that my experiences teach me that there is no such thing as obvious.
Im a Biologist and I can say there is very much a difference between sex and gender. I find the conflation of these two absolutely strange. Gender is not set in stone. It is variable across many cultures.
I have to admit... His tactics worked on me. Thank you for helping me uncover my biases. Hopefully, going forward, I can try to be more understanding of my trans cousins. Thanks and subbed 🏳🌈🏳️⚧️
It worked on you because he's right. You're being manipulated by insanity. Get out of it. You know deep down what gender you are. Why would you let someone talk you out of it? These people don't care about you. They want you confused. The more blind followers they have to push their agenda, the better. Don't let them do it to you. Think for yourself.
Matt Walsh @MattWalshBlog By the way, this was a couple of years ago. My 6 year old daughter is now a pro with a regular adult sized fishing rod. Caught her first bass this past summer, completely unassisted. Now I've got to start working with her sister. She's 4 months old but it's never too early. 12:54 PM · Jan 28, 2020·Twitter So wait - he did give his daughter a fishing pole? And she LIKED it?! She might need to watch his “movie” so she can see what the pink actress playing his daughter (a real woman) would have done.
I'd no idea who this Matt Walsh person was but a few weeks back I kept getting spammed on youtube with adds featuring this guy asking people what is a woman and even with no context of what it was I knew they were disingenuous. It was the footage of him asking some San people the question along with questions about transgender people but using all English terms. It reminder me of the story of some americans in the early 50's going to a remote Irish island where Irish was the main language to ask the women about the quality of their sex life but as the local women weren't familiar with the English words they were being asked like orgasm the visitors concluded they'd never had an orgasm. I thought heres another arrogant westerner pushing their view point with no understanding of the local culture and flagged it to youtube to never show me this ad again yet I still had it pop up several more times.
@@monsterglacier You mean the video that starts instantly with "he's a monster, warning"? Yeah, what a purely unbiased source of truth it must be that it'd never lie to its audience.
@@Mant111 Just because a statement is inflammatory doesn't necessarily mean that it's biased. Hitler was a monster " is example of a fairly true statement that doesn't require political disagreement with the person. Willfully attacking other people's human rights is monstrous.
It's honestly kind of scary. I hope they have compassionate adultsi n their life who model emotions and help the kids talk through feelings when they are overwhelming or just new.
honestly i saw a video of him reading a childrens book he wrote for kids and he had no feelings towards to the children other then trying to shove his views down their throat. at one point he asked them and they are 5 or 6 years old do you know what a bigot is.
I'm from Aberdeen (sort of) and what that store owner did to the woman in that video was awful. He tried to campaign for her to be removed from the city council and when people came to peacefully protest across from the store (he should have been fine with this, after all they're just holding SIGNS which he firmly believes we all have a right to display, unless of course he only thinks he does) he had counter-protesters outside. I remember there being several guns and slurs involved on their end. I'm happy to report that his store, which has been open for long before I was born, is now closed. Too bad sir, guess 9 out of 10 people in the community DIDN'T love your sign.
So lie much? He didn't have counter protesters there. The protesters came on thier own! And actual men showed up and did man shit and now you want to whine about it, way to prove Matt's point!
Is it really surprising how many kids end up broken enough to attempt or commit mass shootings when they are given guns and told that that's the only emotional support they deserve because they were born a certain way? When I was first taught to shoot it consisted of emphasis that guns aren't toys and how to safely use and take care of them, even if they were just an air gun or .22, not telling me this is a toy that now defines my manhood and implying I should use it to solve any emotional issues I may have.
what a fucking stupid comment, you really have no idea on raising Kids do you, you just care about your worldview, read my other comments so maybe you'll understand what Matt really meant when he said that.
See, that's why some people have started using the acronym FART instead of TERF. Feminism-Appropriating Reactionary Transphobe. Because what feminist would give praise to an avowed anti-feminist just for hating on trans people?
The funny thing is she defendents her transphobia by saying it is about caring for women's rights but supports a documentary that is misogynitic (the way he bases all women on his daughter being more than enough evidence).
GET READY FOR THE TROLLS Also 4:36, the “only meant to be for Matt Walsh’s right-wing audience” sounds REALLY like what Thought Slime talked about in “The Most Hateful Book ever Read”. What a coincidence that these books were meant to bring people to their most extreme. I wonder what’s happening. And get this man out of my NYC. Now.
Yeah, not to get too dark but people teach boys they can't talk about if something is bothering them then give them a gun. Not very healthy in my opinion.
@@concernedcommenter8258 I certainly doubt that a person who talks about a shooting that happened in an LGBTQ club by saying "If doing drag shows causes hate crimes why are they still doing them" is that nuanced and understanding of a parent.
I love that this guy decided that he, as a man, should make a documentary supposedly delving into what a WOMAN is, instead of examining his own sex or gender. Because that would force him to think about uncomfortable questions and, I assume, confront the ways in which he feels he does not live up the traditional conceptions of masculinity. No, let's scrutinize The Other instead. And there was nary a challenging thought, opinion, or question to be found for the rest of the piece.
I think that not fitting into 'traditional concept of masculinity' is very different than saying 'I am not a man because I love balet'? So in my point of view just rethinking of what being a man or a woman means in behavioral and social context is better then inventing 62 more genders. I think all ot this is going in a weird direction which is not going to help anybody.
@@evolvingspirit4632 Huh? Also I'm pretty sure you'll find Walsh never admitting to liking ballet or in fact anything deeper than his fascistic sense of fragile masculinity and anti-inteellectualism. Or apparently listening to his daughters either. He surely never got a *chance* to love ballet *because* of his idea of 'What is a man' in fact. (Not that I'm big on ballet, myself, but I've seen some modern dance I got into. :) )
@@evolvingspirit4632 one, no trans person says they're trans because they love ballet, two, Matt Walsh is the kind of man to call his son a sissy for wanting to do ballet, and that's his bullshit to deal with, not trans people's. The only one who thinks "I'm manly/girly, which means I must be a man/woman" is people like Walsh.
@Cillian well that is one way to look at it and I hope you are right. But I am not so optimistic as it seems like we are losing our minds slowly but surely.
I love that professor so much. I'm surprised at Matt Walsch (maybe I shouldn't be) for questioning why a social science professor is so interested in talking about social interaction as it pertains to gender and the use of pronouns in casual conversation.
This reminds me of the TLOU2 controversy where people didn't see Abby as a woman because she was muscular. So even if you're born a woman, but you built yourself differently, you're not a certified woman according to these people.
Bruh. That's not the only reason people hated TLOU2. They hated it because they either killed off or belittled the characters we liked, and forced us to like characters we don't care about, not to mention that GODAWFUL sex scene.
@@jeremyusreevu237 Calm down, the OP only said that there was a controversy around Abby's gender because of her build, they did not comment on the quality of the game whatsoever.
I had and have several male friends and most of them are not gay and I'm not a lesbian for having friendships with men! How can people create such absurd prejudices! men and women can be great friends ❤ very good video
I agree. I’m bi, but I have both male and female friends. And yet, I’m not necessarily gay, I’m attracted to both men and women. It is entirely possible to be attracted to women, and also to just be friends with them without any romantic feelings or desires attached
Ugh I absolutely *loathe* the term "common sense" it's often used to victim blame people who fall for things the person who "has common sense" would nEveR fall for, or used as an ambiguous term that means the person with "common sense" is right and you're wrong! Common sense is a completely arbitrary and subjective concept, and I really wish the term would die... The old dude who said he "knows because of common sense" literally only used it because he knows if he said the actual reasons, his hate would've been much more obvious. (Not that it was very well hidden in the first place) Sometimes I find it difficult to see how others don't catch the hidden meanings and intentions behind reactionary content? Especially when it's more innocuous and non political, I actually struggle with paranoia, so it's like "am I overreacting here...?" Ugh I just hate this reactionary shit, great video Jessie!!!
Is Socially Constructed Gender Common Sense? Transgender is only selective blind! The unquestionable truth that is sacred and inviolable! Is Transgender a Religion or Crazy Fundamentalism! Extortion all day to force others to obey!
I usually respond that "common sense" is better understood as "shared sense" than "prolific sense". If we don't share a sense, it's definitionally not common.
Comparing Matt Walsh to Hugh Jackman's Wolverine, and then to Shakespeare's Puck, was very generous of you. I happen to like both of those characters but not necessarily Matt Walsh.
One of the more frustrating tropes the Right Wing deploys is the performative, face-scrunched-up-like-a-used-Kleenex, "bUt I dOn'T uNdErStAaA-aAnD!" intonation when something extremely obvious has been stated. It's all grift, all the way down. Sure, Walsh may well be an "idealogue" (which presupposes the existence of "an idea" in his head), but there's far more mileage to be gained by understanding that they don't actually believe *anything* - the entire world is performance art for them. In a way, their rejection of "post-modernism" is the ultimate irony - nobody embodies the metareality of Baudrillard, and the absence of context of Lacan more than these hateful people. Absolutely amazing video, Jessie. Know that you are loved and supported, and (allow me the flex) as a forty-something (mumble-mumble) cis-het white guy, I will do what I can to spread the message of tolerance and love for all.
There are two sexes. That is not any phobia. Saying otherwise is bullying and used to silence discussion and rational debate. The majority is being conned or too bust with surviving day to day to even register the issue.
Go read "Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic" by Claire Ainsworth in the October issue of Nature. Everyone recognizes that the predominant situation in humans is a birth sex that generally conforms to "male" or "female", and a gender identity that matches birth sex. No one is saying that these can be easily changed on a whim, or really if they can be changed at all. Saying that trans people and their supporters are "bullies" is the most unintentionally hilarious thing I've read so far this week. You do realize how long trans people have been bullied, and still are bullied?
@@Draco19970125 Gender identity is the aspect of your brain that develops a sense of whether you identify as male or female. It is not sex, although for the vast majority of people their gender identity matches their birth sex. But not everyone, and that's the point.
@@mzaite I get that but if it became illegal, wouldn't she essentially have to detransition? She would no longer have access to HRT... In this hypothetical world where it's illegal for even adults to transition
@@mzaite Mememememememememememe mine mine mine. Focus on me, here are my pronouns. If you don't call me by my pronouns, I'll get you fired. Kindness and empathy! 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡
A woman is an identity. It's a social understanding of the female gender. That's it. It includes a lot of potential descriptors (long hair/breasts/vagina/giving birth/chromosomes/dressing in a feminine way, etc) but they don't all apply to some women. Even assigned at birth females may have no breasts, may have short hair, cannot give birth, have different chromosomes or dress in a masculine way. Society is constantly changing as well, so those descriptors may even be out of date in the future. A good analogy is describing myself as a fan of pop music. If I say I'm a fan of pop, I doubt right-wing trolls would come out of the woodwork to ask "but what IS a pop music?" To define a genre, all you can do is gesture to the way we categorize it. "Pop music" doesn't exist in an objective sense. It's just certain sounds that we have arbitrarily put into a box. And pop music, too, is constantly changing. It's not an easy concept to grasp but as long as you show intellectual honesty you can understand it.
@Rat Nix Bruh I'm a trans woman and still get checked for prostate cancer and have never heard of anyone else not doing it just because they're trans, I have literally no idea what you're talking about
@@lilstevechan8427 It's not actually. Male/Female/etc in reference to biology is about the gametes an organism produces be they plant animal so on and so forth. Thus not an arbitrary comparison.
Ironically that's exactly what he did, the only bits left in were chopped up snippets to make the experts interviewed look batshit insane and then a final bit where he basically admits he's too dense to understand and just asks the question again, then a quick surprise Pikachu bit when they throw him and his camera crew out of their offices, theirs a few of those and then several where he picks people specifically uninformed or misinformed too just reinforce his nonsense, the whole thing can be surmised as propaganda more than it can be called a film or even a documentary, it's literally unabashedly fascist propaganda
So far as I could tell it is all based around simple people wanting to think that simple questions must have simple answers. Which of course they don't always. Unless you're simple...
Why was this so hard to find? I literally searched “Jessie Gender Matt Walsh What is a Woman” a few times over the past few days and found nothing, then today I’m lucky and it gets recommended to me. Glad I can finally watch it.
I swear it feels like so many of Matt's arguments are built like the most basic flat earth argument ever "The earth is flat because It looks flat out my window and if you cant disprove me in one sentence then you're wrong"
9:56 - wow he really just told on himself way too much there, didn't he? Imagine being a man who is completely unable to have any friendships with any women because he "has a different dance in mind ;)" and then having the gall to call *other* people perverts. Like, imagine being unable to interact with a woman without immediately becoming sexually fixated, then calling other people perverts for using the bathroom.
As a woman, the "we need to respect and protect women" argument from these folks would maybe sound more genuine if they weren't already doing the exact opposite and had been doing so for like, centuries.
You know what I find most chilling is "Give my son a bb gun and that's all the emotional support he needs". And we WONDER why gun violence is so rampant, especially in our schools. Like... they all like to make fun of "emotional support" animals, but... an emotional support gun??? *sigh*
It's worse than that, it's emotional repression and misogyny-- you're not "a man" if you have emotions that aren't anger or stoicism-- or you're gay if you have emotions-- because that's a woman's trait. So gay men aren't MEN according to that logic.
@@Mant111 Sir, if you don’t consider having to affirm your masculinity by making kids have their only source of emotional support being guns, you may need to get help. Honestly.
@@peskypigeonx If you can't tell a joke from reality, maybe it's you who needs to touch some grass. It's amazing how many cultists took the BB gun joke seriously. What frauds.
his cadence is just so flaky and unconfident that he comes off as a confused little boy who Genuinely Does Not Know what a woman is and he's afraid because people keep laughing at him. every time you show a clip of him speaking i just start cackling HE SOUNDS GENUINELY SO UNSURE OF HIMSELF HJASAHAHa
@@mycelium_moss AND THE CINEMATIC SHOTS OF HIM WALKING IN SLOW MOTION AFTER HE YELLS IN FEAR ABT NOT KNOWING WHAT A WOMAN IS.... TRULY A MASTERPIECE OF CAMP
As gender is a societal construct, we need only ask ourselves who faces sexism and misogyny? Matt Walsh defines trans women as women every time he or one of his supporters lashes out at one. They would not treat a man in a similar fashion.
I wonder how this differs from how he treats trans men? Perhaps in a patronizing way like jordan peterson does? In which case that does fit with their biological origins no? Treat trans women as mixed up or even predatory men, Treat trans men as mixed up women in need of protecting from themselves?
@@NoOne-hg1qc I hate to say it but most cis men will have a hard time accepting a trans man as a man even if they use the correct pronouns. I could be wrong, but I imagine a trans woman would have an easier time fitting into female hierarchies than a trans man trying to fit into a male hierarchy. Hell, I think a lesbian woman would have an easier time competing in a male hierarchy than a trans man.
Actually he is treating a man in similar fashion because hes speaking about men who transition to women and women who transition to men.so im not sure what yoir point was here exactly.....
"Matt Walsh defines trans women as women every time he or one of his supporters lashes out at one." Umm..okay. I guess that must make some sense to you. I am a man, and I think as Matt Walsh does about this issue. And like Matt, I will debate anyone on this topic, male or female. And I don't know anyone on this side of the debate who cares what sex the person making a particular point is. It either makes sense or it doesn't. A stupid point made by a man is just as stupid as if it were made by a woman. And as far as I can see gets the same scathing response. Nice try to confuse and sidetrack the debate though. Personal attacks are all your side seems to have at their disposal. Which is of course one of Matt's points too...
For the 12th person about to comment something like “you take Matt out of context and don’t actually counter any of points he made during documentary” maybe realize you’re doing the exact same thing with this video.
Yeah. On the one hand I worry about her living in such an environment; on the other, she's doing it voluntarily, supportively, and for profit. Same for Dave Rubin, and even Ben Shapiro has to sit around for antisemitism.
@@jeffengel2607 i remeber seeing her in a prodcast staying dead quiet when a cishet white conservative woman was being transphobic to her, girl knows conservatives hate her but will still pretend to be “one of the good trans” to appel to them🙄 And i agree about ben, im jewish myself and it feels like he and his sister are trying to appel to Christian conservatives by upholding their values when christain conservatives hate us
@@Man-wolf- It was hard for me to watch that debate. I wanted to cuss that woman out. I don't like Blaire White or agree with her views, but I still think no one should be transphobic to her.
@@jessicaK_wolfspirit00 same here, but at the same time it proved to me she cares more about destroying a trans person’s career then to fight off transphobia Couldnt even tell the woman to stop misgendering her, had to go to the “well im a normal trans person” route as if the woman cared
As a human we always strive for more, as a person growing up rural West Virginia I wasn't educated in a lot of things , racism homophobia transphobia it's all words that people use to hate on anothers. I know I'm not articulate but watching you Jessie helps me understand that there's so much good in this world that we can have faith that will we have our place in the Sun.
The "if you got a dick"-argument is so hilarious to me, because there is absolutely no strata of society (least of all conservative environments) where it is acceptable to go around investigating people's genetalia before you decide how to greet them. So even people who believe that gender is purely biological, still rely on the cultural signifiers when gendering people
To be fair most men would not be able to pass as a woman if it weren't for surgery and hormonal treatment. It's just that we live in an age now where biology can be "cheated" so to speak. People can modify their bodies in more ways as technology progresses and now we've reached a point where people can change genders and do so convincingly. Is it wrong? That's subjective I guess but I don'tthink it is. Is getting braces to fix naturally crooked teeth wrong? Should crooked teeth people embrace how they were naturally born? People should change themselves however they want. If a man wants to change his body to that of a woman then why should I care?
Then I guess the gender spectrum is purely dependent on how skilled the plastic surgeon and make up artists are as well as the amount of money they can spend to pass as the gender of their choosing. Kinda like passing the "Turing Test" but for the opposite gender, otherwise people are just gonna call it as it is or just look really confused.
@@translivesmatter9063 Considering this isn't actually about anti trans people being against the idea of trans people existing, rather it's about them wanting men to look like "men" and women to look like "women" based on European standards? Yes, they totally would.
I'm surprised you got through this documentary. I suspected that this documentary is going to be nothing by bad faith arguments based on what work Walsh has done. It sounds like my suspicions are right. Thanks for the video
I'm playing this video waiting for an argument to be made, or any point at all to be laid out. So far it's nothing but trash talking, overly long clips from TV shows, and failed attempts to be funny. Nothing of substance here.
I can imagine a better What Is A Woman? documentary not by Matt Walsh. One where women, trans and cis, are asked "what is a woman to you" and "how/what do you feel preventing as a woman." Men can be interviewed their gender, enbys can talk about how society forces gender on people, scholars can explain the psychology and sociology of gender. Edit: maybe trans-medicalists could be interviewed with some pressing questions opposing their views, followed by someone else explaining how harmful and gatekeepy it is. It could've been really good.
The problem is that there's no answer to that. You ask them "what is a woman" and they have no definition. That's the problem that Matt Walsh seeks to highlight with his videos.
@@Mant111 As Jessie explained so thoroughly in a video I'm starting to think you haven't actually watched, Matt Walsh is not even remotely attempting to actually do that.
While the “what if I identify as a black man” argument sounds strong on the service, it reeks of false equivalence to me as it assumes that identifying as a black person is effectively the same as identifying as a woman, which isn’t really true. Being a black person mainly requires possessing certain ethnic and racial heritage, and that’s more or less it. Identifying as a woman, however, is far more nuanced, carrying biological, mental, and societal connotations. To identify as a black person is to have at least a large amount of black/African heritage, while to identify as a woman would require one to simply see themselves as such, trumping their original biology. Gender is a fair bit more conceptual and free-form in comparison to ethnicity, as both womanhood and manhood have very different appearances pertaining to culture and even history, with sexual biology being more of a chunk of what codifies one’s gender. This sort of gets into the inherent difficulty of answering what a woman is, as any other answer alternative to “one who identifies as such” will contrast with dozens of other cultural and historical views. Can’t really say a woman is purely a denizen of the domestic sphere when the equally valid world view of a fair bit of traditional Southeast Asian cultures, such as Vietnam, are much more matriarchal.
Didn't Walsh write a transphobic children's book comparing being trans to a boy thinking he was a tiger and villainising the parents for "fueling his delusions"? Sorry if I got something wrong.
Well, gender is a natural and real human variation, ....identifying is about the authority to know and define yourself. 'Race' also isn't really a hard category, either, despite other attributed characteristics. What group or category one's in kind of comes from various traits and upbringings and 'group memerships' etc, ...people can be raised immersed in Black communities/family and not look Black, for instance, though their cultural 'identification' may have always been in contrast to, say, their skin color. I'm not really in a great position to speak there, but I've listened to various people who are. (Which often comes down to things going on on multiple levels that Walsh is also trying to reduce to absolutes even if people really are very often mixed regarding 'racial' and cultural traits. )
A better analogy would be take someone who is half black and half white and ask if they'll identify as the colour of their same gender parent. Which some will and some won't. Just like some people will identify with their assigned at birth gender and some won't...
@@1greninjawolfbossdeath648 A walrus, actually. A tiger would have been picked up and RAN WITH by the trans furries way, way more-- and would have sounded "cool", and we can't have that, gotta have a "pathetic" animal that's ugly and lumbering. (Of course he also doesn't know shit about animals and doesn't know how hardass walruses are and also I always think of Jamie Hyneman when I think walrus and ain't gonna lie, he'd absolutely be transition goals for me if I didn't set my sights on being more of a himbo.)
The "they just don't understand" part of my brain just wants to ask Matt Walsh why he thinks he knows people's lived experiences better than they do. And the rest of me is just sad for his children.
Can I just say that if there was representation of men and women just being friends with no "oh wait I do find them attractive all along" plot, or "I'm not into you I'm actually into your brother" plot. Then Mat Walsh would believe that men and women really can be friends, and aren't lying about it. A fine example of how representation in media matters.
What is clear to me is that Matt Walsh and his ilk can’t be friends with women... I guess if its his experience it must be true universally because Matt Walsh knows all and represents all.
Honestly. I remember the moment this crystallized for me. I was watching The Killing with my girlfriend at the time. The male and female buddy cop duo were doing their thing, starting to overcome their differences, learning each other’s strengths. My girlfriend said something along the lines of, “I hope they become a couple at some point” and I replied, “if they fall in love, I’m out.” Can we just show a man and a woman working together and not have them fall in love? Just sometimes, to mix things up? And without one of them being gay, let me add.
Haven’t finished the video yet but I think it’s interesting that Matt assumes his son doesn’t “need” emotional support. I feel like that’s his assumptions about gender getting in the way of a potentially deeper relationship with his child. Like the kid looks maybe eight, probably not a fully developed brain or personality yet. How does he *know* that his son only needs a gun to take care of his emotional needs? Has his son verbalized this? I would assume probably not, since children don’t often come out and say, “I don’t need this specific kind of emotional fulfillment.”
"fun" reminder: a neglected child who's used to being neglected will be perceived as calm and not needy. Not because they don't have needs but because they learned their needs don't matter.
Right? My father was raised in a similar way, and he’s told me about how harmful it was to him. He told me his mother had only told him that she loves him ONCE! Like- men are emotional beings. They’re not robots!! SHIT!!!!
Jessie, you are a QUEEN for going out and doing interviews in your adorable beard! The bravery and the self assurance - I adore you. Love it. I'm enjoying your video so much so far, but I just wanted to say thanks for being your unapologetic delightful self.
Obviously, Matt, being a man, is exactly the right person to define women. Personally I think it's a troll documentary and we all know the advice on trolls.
No shit, it is a troll movie. He is picking up stupid arguments and ridicules them in front of a camera, broadcasting them across the world to millions of people, trying to invalidate his opposition. Case in Point? There was a person in the mockumentary that made exactly the same argument you just did. "Only a woman can know what a woman is". Walsh's retort? You are not a cat, yet you can define what a cat is. It sounds ridiculous, and that is the point. But you can replace" woman with literally any other group in this sentence. Soldier, worker, man, plane, apple. Suddenly, defining ANYTHING becomes completely impossible unless you ARE said something. One does not have to be a member of any given group to be able to define what the properties of said group are! That is nonsense! Please do not make stupid arguments like this, you are just giving Matt Walsh more ammunition.
@@Alexander_Kale I'd respond that the cat analogy is a category error. "Cat" and "woman" as categories exist under different taxonomic frameworks. Walshrus's response is intuitive, but many fallacious arguments are. One could argue against my claim, but the conversation would ultimately dig down to the incontrovertible conclusion alluded to by Diogenes: taxonomy is, at its core, a cultural project, not an observable fact.
@@ms.aelanwyr.ilaicos Taxonomy is not the issue here, group affiliation is. Whether I am a member of any given group or not, the information of what constitutes the properties that define said group should be communicable. In other words, a woman should be able to communicate what a woman is, and any non-woman should be able to receive that information. If you cannot communicate the properties of the group you are a member of, then you either do not KNOW said properties, which is fair enough, or you know that there ARE no such properties. Claiming that this information exists but cannot be communicated is utter nonsense...
oh thank god my parents watched this recently and are obsessed with it and i wanted someone to break down some of the claims made because my mom won’t shut up about it but i could only find people breaking down the first segment; god bless you for being willing to wade through this shitstorm 💕
What gets me is the title - “What is a Woman?” Like trans people encompass men and women, yet it’s interesting that transphobes fixate on trans women. It’s almost like transphobia and misogyny go hand in hand….
Binary determinists don't pay attention to transmen because they believe transmen are still 'just women' and they also don't believe women should have any agency or self-determination anyway. It's why the cons had to even edit their Bible to explicitly condemn lesbians, cause monotheists didn't think women should have any choice about things in the first place.
The 'men aren't ever really friends with women unless they're gay' bit is just sad. Almost makes me want to feel bad for the guy if he wasn't such a monster. The fishing pole thing was pretty funny as well. My daughter was thrilled when we got her a fishing pole. I don't even fish but my dad does and it's been a great way for them to bond. My 18 month old son loves playing with dolls, I don't want to think about how someone with Walsh's mindset would react to that. He also loves his toy cars, trains, mini basketball hoop, etc. Point being, none of this should ever be a cause for concern.
Danny Elfman plays with dolls and he's the buffest 70 year old you will ever see. He also has a lot of female friends despite being straight, it's attitudes like that which make it easy for fake female friends to get away with false accusations of sexual assault.
Every single time a transphobe tries to demand that I define "woman" to them, I inform that my definition and experience as a woman is my own and doesn't reflect the full spectrum that is womanhood. For example, I'm an Autistic albino. My _twin sister_ is allistic and can produce pigmentation. If I'm that different from my _literal twin sister,_ then how am I supposed to understand what it's like for total strangers??? Also, I can still respect and appreciate other womens' struggles even if I don't particularly understand it fully.
That’s like saying theirs no definition of a chair because chair can look different. And since theirs no definition a table can be a chair. This is the world we allowed people to create.
@@christianlima987 No, a chair and someone's literal identity are completely different. But you already know that, you all just enjoy making false equivalencies. That's your problem, not mine. Bye bye now.
@@Otakugatothequeen no equivalence on this one I’m using the idea of changing the definition of a chair to the point that no one can define it to show how idiotic what y’all are doing to women is. I’m using it to highlight my point not to make my point. But you’re right you’re stuck worshiping the l g b t social construct and cant think critically.
@@Liry1 yeah, saying "I wouldn't expect someone like you to know what it's like to have a father" is pretty harsh...were you quoting something in reference to Johnny's original post as a joke?
EDIT: Thank you for removing your comment, it really takes the context away from this conversation, and into your agenda. @@Liry1 Thank you for explaining, there is a lot to unpack here. You see, the "Give my son a bb gun" line is a joke on how parents that enforce the normatives for masculinity essentially emotionally neglect their sons. You see, all the boy needs to do is shoot some cans, instead of talking about their feelings and what's making them happy or sad. Regarding your broad statement about people that 'support the deranged idea' usually don't have good relationships with their families...Why do you think that is? Do you think these parents are accepting of these 'deranged'? Do you think they wouldn't kick them out of the home if they refused to pretend they are the gender they are born with? These families they don't have, aren't really deserving of the title "parent", as their love is conditional. Dogs are treated with more respect than their own children...And these are the people you don't think are deranged. Again, thank you for being clear about your views, but the fact is, you are being malicious if you are willing hurt people's feelings over an opinion by calling them fatherless. Yes, dads do matter, but they aren't here for your cause.
@@jacineyatrakos3149 brilliant point. I think you've won me over. Thanks for sharing this glorious piece of information with me. Good day ma'am/person/sir.
I know this video is over a year old, but I still want to comment on this video. Similar to another commenter, I also have to admit Matt Walsh Tactic and Manipulation had worked on me as well as I watched his video alongside other Conservative youtuber when Roe V. Wade got overturned. As during the summertime of 2022, I kept watching these conservative videos on RU-vid, because I thought these were people who I could trust since they were adults, but Unknown to me and not noticing the sign I was being manipulated by these people. During the beginning of my Junior year of High School, after watching a lot of people on Tik-Tok who came from those minority, such as Tran, LGBTQ+, etc., I came to realize that these people were wrong and was spreading hurtful, bigotry, and hateful thing toward those people and because of that I stop watching these people on RU-vid. Right now, in 2023 I’m in my senior year of school as I am now 18-year-old and I’m no longer watching his videos alongside other conservative videos on RU-vid. Now, from Nov 29-Dec 1 of 2023 in my senior years, I am dealing with a lot of guilt, shame, and being very upset about having to watch these conservative people on RU-vid. As on Wednesday, Nov 29, I was crying from guilt and shame for having to watch these videos of people who are downright awful, spreading bigotry, and dehumanization rhetoric. I'm glad I don't watch and consume his video and other conservative video on RU-vid, but the guilt and shame of watching and consuming his video is still there.
awe you're really young to go through this journey so quickly and become more wise! and now you will be able to recognise the many other similar manipulative traps that exist in the world. I grew up in a cult & was one of those people for so many years, so shit like this video hits extra hard bc I was so connected to it.... but the positive is that I will {with the help of a hair-trigger intuition*} never go back into a cult mindset again *i say this bc i know, never say never
The bit where he says that pronouns are about expressing a biological reality is super funny when you consider languages like Bahasa Malaysia which only have one pronoun, dia, which is used for everyone regardless of gender. Which, off topic, but is also why orangutan should be translated as person of the jungle and not man of the jungle because orang means person, as in orang asli meaning original people and used to describe the indigenous populations. If it was man of the jungle it would be lelaki-utan.
@@snoopy-girl your point being? Like, what elements are you referring to? And what does that have to do with the fact that dia is a gender neutral pronoun? Or that orang mean person and not "man" in the way English uses "man" as a substitute for humanity?
@@snoopy-girl There are sexist elements of most languages. I can personally vouch for Hebrew, Arabic, and Amharic, but I think just about any natural language older than maybe 50 years is going to have sexist elements. Yes, including European languages. Yes, including English.
@@laurebourgeois7256 yeah, that's kinda my point. That he's using the existence of gendered pronouns in one language to argue that gender exists as a biological reality, but if that were the case then gendered pronouns would exist in all languages, yet they don't. And some languages contain more than two gendered pronouns. So his argument falls apart because language does not determine biological reality.
"Give my son a BB gun and that's about all the emotional support he needs..." Poor, poor kid. What an asshole dad thing to say though, seriously! That's the kind of bs attitude towards "raising boys" that nearly ruined my childhood. Edit: Jessie picked up on that a few seconds later in the video. Of course she did- and she points out exactly why it's a horrible thing to think about your own child. -"Just bottle it all up son, don't you dare come to me for 'eMoTiOnAl SuPpoRt'. You do that, I'll think your gay, OBVIOUSLY. And you KNOW how I FEEL about THE GAYS..." I can just picture the scene: -"Don't you start crying while I'm being hateful and demeaning towards you or you'll get the belt, SON! I JUST told you, BOY: Crying is GAY. You want to go to Christian torture camp? Do you?" But you know, they want to "protect the children!" and all that... Give us a break. Edit-Edit: If he's arguing that it should be illegal for a queer identifying person to teach children in schools because they might spread their so called "gender ideology" to otherwise ignorant children. Then I'm sure we can all agree that someone who self identifies as a "christian fascist" which is an actual political ideology as opposed to a personal identity, should be nowhere near children's education either. And yet he and the daily wire and Prager """university""" are CONSTANTLY pushing their very serious and historically proven to be genocidal incoherent political ideology upon children in a variety of ways, and with organized top-down structural funding by billionaires who have openly and repeatedly professed their deep disdain for science, democracy, human rights and the entire f'ing planetary ecological environment!
you're projecting your past on others, and you totally failed to understand what Matt meant when he said that, read my other comments so maybe you will
"I give myself a fake gun and that's all the emotional support he needs" 3 years later "Why has my son gone on a shooting rampage offing 12 of his peers?? Truly a mystery we will never be able to understand."
While I think asking the question of 'what is a woman' isn't that helpful in the grand scheme of things, it is one question I find intriguing though sometimes overwhelming and scary. Still, I would've loved to hear what the social studies professor had to say and honestly I would've loved this documentary if it were done right. If he went in with his point of view, but open to being challenged and learning something new.
I love how they claim media is trying to keep his documentary/film under raps when all I have had is youtube advertise it to me with ads, shorts and recommendations...when literally everyone I watch and am subscribed to is left leaning and support trans people
The scene with the kids' birthday party where all the boys are wearing blue and doing "boy" things and all the girls wearing pink and doing "girl" things, is giving me strong "But I'm a Cheerleader" memories. But also, it's like Matt Walsh and other conservatives ALMOST get it. When they talk about the differences between boys and girls, they almost always point to non-sex-related things; like behavior, mindset, social differences, and emotions. Conservatives lean on a lot of bad stereotypes, and they don't believe there's any gray area or overlap between boys and girls. But they do understand (on some level) that gender is not just genitals or chromosomes or gonads. It should not be that big of a leap for them to embrace that gender identity is a thing and that sometimes gender identity is different than assigned gender.
''A BB gun is all the emotional support my son ever needs''.... is how serial killers are created. Also love how always they quote ''Nature''... by which they mean their beliefs about nature based on their absolute lack of understanding of how nature actually works.
Probably gunmen is more fitting. My thoughts went in the same direction hearing this sentence. At least suicide with a gun is what came to my mind. This gun culture paired with a lack of mental health support in the us is really horrifying.
Shooting a BB gun is actually really enjoyable and healthy for boys, especially if it's a bonding experience with the father. I see no reason it would turn someone into a serial killer
