{"id":3271,"date":"2023-06-06T21:38:01","date_gmt":"2023-06-06T21:38:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3271"},"modified":"2023-06-06T22:08:06","modified_gmt":"2023-06-06T22:08:06","slug":"what-is-a-woman-movie-review-matt-walshs-epic-film","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=3271","title":{"rendered":"\u2018What Is a Woman?\u2019 Movie Review: Matt Walsh\u2019s Epic Film"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/what-is-a-woman-movie-review\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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\u201cWhat Is a Woman\u201d movie review: We give the new Matt Walsh film 5 of 5 stars.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

Movie critics have shunned Matt Walsh\u2019s epic and brilliant documentary \u201cWhat Is a Woman?\u201d although more than 110 million people have watched it. That\u2019s okay; the country\u2019s elite critics are making themselves irrelevant in a central debate of our times.<\/p>\n

Because the mission of Wisconsin Right Now \u2013 Wisconsin\u2019s top conservative news site \u2013 is to give you the news the liberal elites censor, we have decided to write a What Is a Woman movie review most news sites wouldn\u2019t dare. Walsh pointed out on Twitter that only six movie critics had written reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and none from major sites. The IMDb page<\/a> for the movie says, \u201cThe reviews for the film were hidden on Letterboxd.\u201d That\u2019s just wrong. It\u2019s also revealing.<\/p>\n

Into this zeitgeist comes Walsh, the Daily Wire podcaster and commentator with a deadpan style that is far more effective and harder to refute than flame-throwing.<\/p>\n

To some degree, Walsh\u2019s documentary is a statement on censorship. It\u2019s worth noting that the documentary would have reached far fewer eyes if Elon Musk hadn\u2019t purchased Twitter. What the left can\u2019t argue, they censor. This plays out in interview after interview, where Walsh\u2019s carefully worded, completely legitimate questions eventually cause squirming interview subjects to shut down a conversation they can\u2019t win.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a power shift happening in America, and it started with the concerns of parents at a local level bubbling up to the national stage. The free flow of information is essential. Middle America \u2013 and science and common sense \u2013 are moving past the left at warp speed, and they don\u2019t even realize it. Simply put, the elite left has lost the argument because they don\u2019t control all platforms to reach audiences anymore (thank you, Elon). They win only through censorship and silencing.<\/p>\n

By trying to redefine (or even eradicate) womanhood, the liberal elites have dramatically overplayed their hands. Just ask Target or Bud Lite or the Sun Prairie, Wisconsin, School District<\/a>. Frankly, we\u2019re surprised that LGBTQ adults aren\u2019t more upset. Going after children is setting their movement back decades.<\/p>\n

The biggest mistake the left has made is trying to supplant parents\u2019 decision-making authority with that of liberal educators\u2019. A parental movement that organized and grew in opposition to the excesses of masks and COVID-era online schooling has shifted its focus with a ferocity to trans-indoctrination and mutilation of kids. Liberals make a critical mistake if they think this debate is limited to the far corners of the right or Kid Rock shooting a commemorative beer can. If given the information, few parents will side with the left on this.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat if my truth is that you no longer exist?\u201d Walsh asks a woman, who says, \u201cI mean if that\u2019s your truth sure, I don\u2019t.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut you do because we\u2019re having this conversation,\u201d says Walsh.<\/p>\n

\u201cCan you tell me what a cat is?\u201d he asks another person on the streets of San Francisco. A pediatrician objects to Walsh using the word \u201cdrugs\u201d to refer to medical treatments given to juveniles after he points out <\/a>that the drug, Lupron, is also used to chemically castrate sex offenders. She thinks calling drugs \u201cdrugs\u201d is harmful.<\/p>\n

Sample conversation in Walsh\u2019s documentary:<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n

\u201cIf people feel they\u2019re a woman, they\u2019re a woman.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cYes, but what is that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThis conversation is over!\u201d<\/p>\n

Contrast this with the words of blunt store owner, Don Sucher, who declares that it\u2019s all \u201ccommon sense.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do I know I\u2019m a man? Because I\u2019ve got a d*ck,\u201d he states.<\/p>\n

A slight criticism: One of the most powerful segments in the Walsh documentary focused on hospitals performing mutilation surgeries on minors and exposing them to hormones for which society lacks research documenting the long-term consequences. Walsh interviews Scott Newgent<\/a>, who describes the horror of the surgical procedures involved in transitioning, even showing the documentarian a mutilated arm which tissue for a penis was harvested from.<\/p>\n

This is horrifying. We think the hospital mutilation angle could have been spun into a second documentary so the angle did not get somewhat lost (read Wisconsin Right Now\u2019s recent investigative article <\/a>in which we document \u2013 in the hospitals\u2019 own spokespeople\u2019s words \u2013 the fact that two major Wisconsin hospitals are performing mastectomies on gender dysphoric juveniles and injecting them with hormones that even the FDA has not approved for this use).<\/p>\n

Walsh fought initial censorship by Twitter until Musk reversed it and pinned the documentary to the top of his page. The documentary discusses a Canadian father jailed <\/a>for using the \u201cwrong pronoun\u201d for his daughter and penalized for speaking out against his underage daughter being given hormones to transition without his consent; a Virginia school board that tries to limit debate (until Walsh ingeniously moves into town to qualify); and a Dr. Phil episode that was taken down when the other participants claimed Walsh\u2019s questions caused them \u201cemotional damage.\u201d To further a new age of censorship, the left has absurdly decided that conservative opinions (and even the \u201ctruth\u201d) are actual violence (case in point: Tom Cotton and his New York Times editorial).<\/p>\n

But what makes the question \u201cWhat is a woman?\u201d so incredibly terrifying to the left?<\/p>\n

Because they can\u2019t answer it.<\/em><\/p>\n

Their definition is not based on \u201ctruth,\u201d as Walsh argues, but rather a distortion of it. Walsh\u2019s thesis: Their answers are based on feelings and emotion, contradicting reason and science (XX, not XY). It\u2019s the difference between subjective and objective truth. They want us to believe gender is a social construction when they\u2019re the ones constructing it.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biological differences between the sexes have long been recognized at the biochemical and cellular levels. Rapid advances in molecular biology have revealed the genetic and molecular bases of a number of sex-based differences in health and human disease, some of which are attributed to sexual genotype\u2014XX in the female and XY in the male,\u201d<\/em> explains a research article available on the National Library of Medicine<\/a>. \u201cEvery cell has a sex,\u201d says the header.<\/p>\n

Walsh twists their logic on his interview subjects (therapists, a Congressman, a pediatrician). For example, they think it\u2019s fine for kids to feel their gender is something else, but kids have such imaginations they believe in Santa Claus. If people can pick their gender because of how they feel then why can\u2019t they pick their race? These are questions Walsh poses.<\/p>\n

The documentary brings one to the inescapable conclusion that gender and sex are the same thing. As the documentary points out, there are men who are more feminine in characteristics or traits than others, and there are girls who are tomboys, but that doesn\u2019t make them something they are not. Sex is not \u201cassigned\u201d by a doctor at birth; it\u2019s determined by biology and God. Men and women are simply not built similarly; just ask the female swimmers who lost to Lia Thomas. Walsh does.<\/p>\n

Walsh\u2019s 1.5-hour-long documentary exploring sex and \u201cgender\u201d is a brilliant expose of the insanity of liberal elites. It\u2019s hard not to watch Walsh\u2019s movie and not come away with the reality that a large portion of the United States has completely lost its mind.<\/p>\n

One baffled look or smile on the Maasai African tribal members\u2019 faces (visited by Walsh, who asked them about the roles of men and women) proves that point. \u201cWe have never seen things like this,\u201d the Maasai warrior says, apparently thinking it\u2019s all nuts. Perhaps the entire \u201cgender\u201d debate is the luxury of a society with too much time on its hands.<\/p>\n

Contrast their simple truths to the byzantine logic of the professor Walsh visits who babbles on about \u201cconstructs\u201d and is \u201creally uncomfortable\u201d with the language \u201cgetting to the truth,\u201d which he considers \u201cdeeply transphobic.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIf I probe about what the truth is?\u201d Walsh says the professor, adding that \u201cwe should begin figuring out what the reality is.\u201d<\/p>\n

At one point, on the Dr. Phil show (in an episode later censored), Walsh is accused of being extreme and points out that he\u2019s just articulating a position that society held since the beginning of time. Until now, in America. How and when did that become extreme? Why should we fear making these points? Why has America become a country where you fear exercising freedom of speech (as witnessed by a Thomas teammate who was interviewed in shadows for the documentary, although she\u2019s since allowed Walsh to use her name)?<\/p>\n

His expose of the forebears of the \u201cgender identity\u201d movement \u2013 including Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey, who \u201cwanted to rid society of Judeo-Christian values when it came to sexuality\u201d and believed \u201cchildren are sexual from birth\u201d \u2013 is very disturbing. Kinsey based his data on convicted sex offenders, and performed \u201chorrific sexual experiments on children, some under the age of 1,\u201d according to Walsh, but he remains celebrated by Hollywood and academia, and his work is the foundation for current teachings in schools.<\/p>\n

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