What is a Woman – The Video
June 6, 2022 in Gender Issues | Tags: Against Gender Idology, Feminism, What is a Woman
It sad to see so many women in the grips of an ideology that silences their speech around the very essence of what they are.
Women are adult human females, and that should never – never – be a fraught statement. https://t.co/Ajx8Nu4xFm
— The Arbourist (@TheArbourist) June 4, 2022
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June 6, 2022 at 6:11 am
silverapplequeen
Funny how nobody ever asks “What is a man”.
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June 6, 2022 at 8:53 am
tildeb
When mutual respect for reality is lost (as this documentary shows is all too common throughout the dysfunctional West), there can be no honest conversation. Trans ideology does not respect reality; instead, it tries to reshape reality by changing the words we use to describe it to ‘fit’ with an incoherent ideology based on temperament and personality… ie feelings. Hence, we see the circular argument used repeatedly that a woman is defined as anyone who feels like a woman.
The wake created by the imposition of this ideology in and by our institutions is one of collaborative harm especially to the pipeline children – the vast majority who are girls – who are to be used to repopulate this activist group. This collaboration by well meaning but cowardly authorities – especially in medicine – is unconscionably irresponsible and deplorable child abuse. That’s what this affirmation ideology in medical action ‘treating’ gender dysphoric youth is in reality: child abuse. And women in particular are paying the price as they become – once again – second class citizens expected to yield in all ways to this dystopian transactivist invasion.
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June 6, 2022 at 10:22 am
tildeb
And then there’s this… in case anyone thinks the issue is personal and therefore somewhat trivial…
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June 6, 2022 at 12:11 pm
makagutu
Treated as given or maybe not. Maybe to be woman is what is contested
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June 6, 2022 at 1:32 pm
tildeb
Silverapplequeen, a natal female claiming to be man in the west has no significance to other males in terms of rights, freedoms, competition, ability, access, or physical safety. I’ll bet if multiple podiums in multiple sports were being taken by such female-into-male claimants – especially because of some biological physical advantage with which females develop – you bet the question would be raised and settled in men’s favor in record time.
But the answer is still the same simple dictionary definition: an adult human male. But very few transactivists start the hate campaign over this because even fewer people think bigotry, hate, and intolerance is Poof!ed into existence by stating such a biological fact. Only for transwomen do we make the exception that everyone must pretend that they really, really, really are women and so deserve to have women yield to them in every aspect.
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June 6, 2022 at 2:02 pm
darthvelma
Could we maybe not give clicks to a man who said back in May: “there’s really no creature on Earth more repulsive than a bitter old pro-abortion feminist. Henious monsters overseen the slaughter of millions of children and still not satisfied! Blood-thirsty psychopaths!!!”
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June 6, 2022 at 2:11 pm
darthvelma
Hit post before I was really done. Matt Walsh is not on our side. He hates women just as much as the most “woke” TIM. He believes 100% in “gender” (aka sex role stereotypes), he just thinks it is also 100% tied to biological sex.
Conservatives think if you’re a girl, you must like pink.
TIMs think if you like pink, you must be a girl.
Radical feminists (and honestly, most people with 2 working brain cells) think that everyone can like whatever they want and that your personality and interests are not dependent on or tied to your sex.
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June 6, 2022 at 2:14 pm
tildeb
Isn’t it interesting that – like with criticism of Islamism – only the more right wing element seems able or capable of criticizing the extreme idiocy of the Left? I we follow your advice, DV, there would be basically no criticism of this insanity at all.
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June 6, 2022 at 2:23 pm
darthvelma
Plenty of radical feminists have been criticizing the trans movement from the left. We get no-platformed and have our lives and livelihoods threatened. Matt Walsh only gets traction because he’s a dude. And a conservative, woman-hating dude at that. The last thing we need is people watching that video and then falling down the right-wing woman-hating rabbit hole.
If you really want to help women in their fight against all this nonsense, lift up the voices of actual feminist woman. Not this suppurating boil on the ass of humanity.
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June 6, 2022 at 2:32 pm
tildeb
Oh, I do. I even put my money where my mouth is. One does not need to be a radical feminist to support women’s rights.
But the point is that when the truth is spoken and reality respected, the source simply doesn’t matter. Content over context. There’s the merit. Anyone and anything said no matter how true and relevant and needed can be smeared by context and dismissed on this basis. That serves whom?
For you to highlight the source – highlighting who is doing the saying rather than focusing on what is being said – as of questionable moral character for this other opinion or that other statement rather than the content of the one presented – undermines that core message of speaking truth to power. You are doing the work of the censorious woke.
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June 6, 2022 at 2:43 pm
darthvelma
I am simply pointing out that there are better sources one can point people to that describe the problem with trans ideology than a man who hates women.
I am also pointing out that while Matt Walsh may be anti-trans, he is in no way opposed to gender. I don’t particularly want to live in a world where I have to live by Matt Walsh’s definition of what a woman is.
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June 6, 2022 at 6:29 pm
tildeb
You’re still doing it: vilifying the messenger as if this matters to the message. Every person who has tried to explain why trans ideology is anti-female to its core is vilified exactly the same way. Yet here you are doing the same thing. That deserves criticism regardless of WHY you are doing it because in effect you are serving only one master: the aims and goals of this deplorable ideology by discrediting some of its critics.
Because trans ideology is a left wing ‘progressive’ ideology (it is corrosively anti-liberal in its central tenets and wholly regressive in toxic effect) I see left wing people falling all over themselves to amplify the feelings of some males over the rights and protections and responsibilities of others, females in particular. This is deplorable. I don’t care what political stripe or other opinions someone might have if they are willing to denounce this abhorrent and damaging ideology for the right reasons, namely, in the name of refusing to go along with the lie that identity trumps reality, in the name of respecting reality enough to not trying to force others to join in the lie in the name of some anti-reality narrative. Every person of any political stripe who cares about the value of an individual in law should be screaming from the rooftops why going along with such a lie, codifying it law, implementing it in medicine, endorsing it as if a virtue when it causes so much harm in real life to real individuals is deplorable. But instead – and just like clockwork – the weevils come out to question the moral character of these brave people willing to stand against it in the name of something else and so undermine the message in the name of championing some imaginary other virtue. It’s not a virtue; it’s a vice.
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June 7, 2022 at 9:24 am
tildeb
Rotten Tomatoes for What is a Woman?: where have all the critics gone? Into hiding? Nope. Dozens have told Walsh that they’re not going to promote transphobia from such bigot as he is. Sound familiar, Darthvelma? The result? Almost no critical reviews from those who claim to be critical reviewers rather than what they show us to be: ideological mouthpieces for mainstream media. So some actual critical reviews come almost entirely from viewers. This, in a nutshell, demonstrates the problem progressive ideology capture has: a loss of honest dialogue. It reminds me very strongly of the worst kind of religious belief: adherents and blasphemers, the moral and immoral, the righteous and heathens. To avoid the negative assignment, most disbelievers become fence sitting agnostics, apologists, and get busy trying to appear reasonable by acting the role of the tone police. In atheist lingo, these confused people become the ‘butters’ as in, “Yes, I don’t believe like those extreme ideologues, but… (usually followed by why they aren’t as immoral and strident and hateful as those willing to stand on principled, reasonable, and justified disagreement).”
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June 7, 2022 at 9:40 am
darthvelma
tildeb, I’m done engaging with you on this. Matt Walsh is a self-described “theocratic fascist”. He’s anti-abortion. He’s anti-gay marriage. He advocates the “Great Replacement” theory. A stopped watch is right twice a day. That doesn’t mean you rely on it to tell you the time when you have a better option.
If you don’t understand why I might be concerned about signal boosting the conservative critique of trans ideology over more liberal voices of opposition, I don’t know what to say to you.
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June 7, 2022 at 10:40 am
tildeb
You seem to miss the point that what’s important isn’t about who is saying what but the what that is being said. Your concern about Walsh is entirely misplaced if the issue is really about criticizing trans ideology. You seem to think it’s about something else, about the pedigree in feminist qualifications before and above the legitimacy of criticism of trans ideology on merit. You seem determined to wave away this legitimate concern I raise about your diversionary concern from the issue at hand and stick to selecting only those voices you deem appropriate while criticizing as “signal boosting” moral degenerates (who listen to “this suppurating boil on the ass of humanity”) of anyone who doesn’t go along with your pre-approval process.
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June 7, 2022 at 5:11 pm
tildeb
“If you really want to help women in their fight against all this nonsense, lift up the voices of actual feminist woman.”
It would be interesting to count up just how many voices of feminist women have been raised here on Arb’s site (I think dozens) because you make it sound like raising Matt’s voice with this video is somehow a replacement, a step backwards, an offering that shows questionable anti-feminist preference. That’s your narrative imposed on others and it’s truly a bizarre and biased reading of this post.
You then presume Matt’s voice is raised because he’s a dude. That’s just insulting to anyone who thinks trans ideology is lacking enough on merit to question its wider and imposed application. This false accusation may help you feel like you’re helping ‘the cause’ of feminism by vilifying an obvious ally because he’s not aligned to your ‘correct’ radical feminist ideology, but all you’ve accomplished is trying to change the subject of the video being posted here (and Arb’s perceptive commentary) to be about Matt’s feminist credentials or, as you point out repeatedly, his lack of them. You don’t seem to realize why this approach you take isn’t a good idea when it comes to confronting the lies of trans activists and the incoherence of trans ideology with whomever shares the same concern… but instead put aside the very real threat this ideology presents when institutionalized really does cause real harm to real women in real life regardless of their radical feminist credentials.
You want to go after Matt’s character and smear it to suit your own reasons more than you want to go after a deeply dysfunctional and irrational anti-female ideology. You would prefer to vilify allies rather than welcome their added voices that serves this vital shared cause. I think that’s incredibly short-sighted and needs more, not less, criticism for taking your eyes off the prize and urging other allies to follow your lead. This tactic helps only trans activists gain ground while you get busy squabbling about who is allowed to criticize it.
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June 9, 2022 at 8:56 am
cara ryan
It’s everything I (suddenly) noticed the world trying to remind me about when I became around 15…but: absolutely *nothing* to do with either surviving through a 40-minute cardio session or using a power washer to clean my own backyard patio whenever I feel it needs being done(!).
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