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The Manipulations of Matt Walsh's "What is a Woman?"

Jessie Gender

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What is a Woman... truly a difficult question that only Matt Walsh was "brave" enough to ask. Yet, clearly, there are issues, so let's break down all the ways The Daily Wire plus' film What is a Woman manipulates its audience and how Matt Walsh created a documentary to frame trans people as the villains through misinformation.

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0:00 - Intro
7:05 - What is a Matt Walsh?
12:48 - Framing
16:59 - A Lack of Curiosity
19:38 - Walsh's Pre-Determined Answer
26:30 - Affirming Yourself
37:52 - "Just Asking Questions"
40:57 - How The Questions Were Asked
59:01 - Conclusions
1:04:14 - A Surprise Twist & Announcements

20 Comments

@JessieGender1 Creator 4 years ago (edited) Pinned

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.

@luvahadowsdolls 2 years ago

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.

@jonnaking3054 4 years ago (edited)

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

@charscreamAA 4 years ago

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.

@michaelbugner7011 2 years ago

I felt so disgusted when he said, "Give my son a BB gun, and that's all the emotional support he needs." I grew up with a father he was a conservative "manly man" and I couldn't be emotionally open with him. Being raised to ignore your feelings and just "be tough" is so toxic.

@muunwulf4706 4 years ago

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.

@FinntasticMrFox 4 years ago

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.

@TheHunterGracchus 4 years ago

"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.

@KandidKlown 3 years ago

The CW for Matt's beard is much appreciated, thank you.

@justjack1996 4 years ago

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.

@viktoriavadon2222 4 years ago

"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

@Zapporah85 4 years ago

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.

@blitz3391 3 years ago

Matt's questioning of sex in Star wars shows he's never played Mass Effect.

@supercrazylegs1 4 years ago

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.

@AuroraExhale 4 years ago

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.

@gRinchY-op5vr 4 years ago

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

@leosmith7511 3 years ago

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.

@dcjokerhs 4 years ago

I love this.
Like, it makes me want to chomp into the transcript of Matt's Trash with all the power of an ex-English Student, just to crit it the way you'd read and crit a student's essay: you generally need to ask a question, then prove the answer, but rather than pulling out papers, this bigot just seems to move onto the next question, which makes the previous question redundant. When you make a question reduundant, why ask that question? Commonly, that's to distract or alter the way the viewer/reader takes the next question, so if you do that enough, circle it around enough... Suddenly you're right back at your initial question, which you sound like you have answered, when really, you have answered nothing.

@opy9135 4 years ago (edited)

Way back in high school one of our media groups produced a ~5 minute video of students misanswering 1st grade questions cut from over 3hrs of footage. This was just meant to be a funny film highlighting the bias in editing. It however was picked up by the national media and went viral denigrading the state of US public education while completely ignoring the producer's point. You can tell any narrative/ make anything look how you want through editing.