What is a woman: Daily Wire documentary on for limited time for free

Trigger warning: about 45 minutes, a snippet of a goat being butchered, you might find it upsetting but it is very brief.

I am wading through the documentary.

It is striking how many people will not say what is a woman without resorting to the circular a woman is a woman if they say they are.

I watched a hooky upload of this when it first came out and ‘Can a Chicken Cry?’ ‘Can a Chicken have a Gender Identity’ has become part of my family’s everyday lexicon.

I doubt my family would fit in at Matt’s kids’ pink and blue gender stereotype party but nonetheless, I am delighted that the Blue-Haired-Gender-Chicken-Lady scene exists.

Louis Theroux has made numerous documentaries about crackpot yanks. Why won't he and the BBC explore this topic? So much for BBC impartiality.

Louis Theroux made a documentary about so-called 'trans kids' back in 2015.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b05qkzt2/louis-theroux-specials-transgender-kids

That way makes me nervous

Cross referencing the Matthew Parris thread. I think men do need to take an interest in the issue. If they need a regular-guy type character to take them along, then so be it.

Louis Theroux has made numerous documentaries about crackpot yanks. Why won't he and the BBC explore this topic? So much for BBC impartiality.

Ooh, going to give this a try, I've always used the hot water method and while it works this seems a lot more brisk and elegant.

Or you can just give the lid a firm tap against a countertop. Seal breaks, jar opens easily. When I was married I was chief jar opener because I always tapped it just right to break the seal. I remember chatting on the phone with my mum once, when XH asked me to open a jar he was struggling with. My mum couldn't stop laughing when she overheard.

The movie isn't a feminist take on the topic, it is a general (center) parent's point of view.

Just the subject is so wrong it can be taken apart from different sides.

Agree, Nutella.

This sure is getting a lot of sunlight. DH and I watched it last night, now it's trending across the world with 145m tweets.

Sure it wasn't an in depth feminist exploration but let's not criticise it for not being pure enough. It brings the basics to the masses and those who are interested can look into it further

He starts off with a loads of sexist bullshit his son only needing a BB gun for emotional support

I got this far and realised that unless it was a joke it is actually a pile of sexist and misogynist bullshit.

Mrs Walsh needs to try levering a spoon under the rim of the jar to break the vacuum. I hope Matt has other redeeming qualities when she masters that skill.

Well some of that was totally horrific but I did enjoy that right up until the final moment the jar needing opening infuriated me.

The tribe bit was too much of a celebration for rigid sexed roles for me too.

Marci Bowers was described as a "gynaecologist" as well as the list of other surgical specialisms. Would that be an actual gynaecologist managing real woman health issues? Or a gynaecologist who manages the specific requirements of those new surgically created "vaginas" which, whatever she said about the looking like and functioning just like the real thing, definitely do not function like the real thing.
Personally I'd be choosing a gynaecologist who specialises in actual female health but hey ho, when no one is allowed to say what a woman is it must be hard to find an old fashioned gynaecologist.

twitter.com/djossedgaf/status/1664754351263346692?s=46&t=SPorwN-mokktL467rcZ57g

Was he actually saying a gay man wouldn't know but I would because I am a woman? Otherwise Matt asking him about cats seemed needlessly cruel.

Yes, I think so.

106m views of tweet at current time.

It does seem outdated to those of us in the thick of it but it's a pretty powerful documentary and I'm over the moon that it's getting so widely watched.

The Kinsey/Money bits will certainly make the uninitiated gasp!

One bit that confused me was purple hat guy. He seemed to be agreeing with Matt, a gay man wouldn't know...., but was he trans? Was he actually saying a gay man wouldn't know but I would because I am a woman? Otherwise Matt asking him about cats seemed needlessly cruel.

Thanks. I was a bit confused for a mo!

The alarming part for me was people's inability to robustly defend their argument. They would just say 'a woman is whatever a woman says she is' and when pressed to explain that, ended the interview or got angry.

It matches my experience of trying to talk to those kind of people about their beliefs and why I should be convinced that male people can be women.

@Clymene yes, it is.

This is the same Matt Walsh documentary from last year isn't it? He talks to Marci Bowers and some Maasai people. Or is this a new one?