- Starring
- Matt Walsh
- Director
- Justin Folk
- Rating
- Not Rated
- Genre
- Documentary
- Where to watch
- DailyWire+
Overall Score
Rating Overview
Rating Summary
In the last few years, the number of young people who identify as LGBT has increased dramatically. So much so that it is estimated that 1 in 5 Gen Z’s identifies as falling somewhere within the ever-expanding spectrum of QWERTY nonsense. Matt Walsh and The Daily Wire‘s What is a Woman couldn’t be more timely.
What is a Woman?
Unarguably the Daily Wire’s most well-known documentary to date, the often funny, always poignant What is a Woman follows Daily Wire alumn and host of The Matt Walsh Show, Matt Walsh, as he travels the globe asking people from the most highly educated Westerners to those of an African tribe living in literal mud huts the question, What is a Woman?
Some documentaries are meant to move you while displaying the greatest of human kindness or suffering. What is a Woman is meant to be a persuasive piece that holds a mirror up to the inane gibberish espoused by the radical religious zealots worshiping at the altar of modern gender theory. Like a garlic-encrusted Kryptonite crucifix to a Kryptonian vampire, Matt Walsh drives back the fiends who would surgically mutilate and sterilize the nation’s children in the name of The Church of the Latter Day Saints of Inclusion and Representation; Diversity be Thy name.
Walsh and director Justin Folk keep things deceptively simple in the best traditions of argument and debate. In most of the film’s interviews, Matt will ask a simple and seemingly innocuous question and then sit back as madness spews forth from the mouths of those he’s interviewing, allowing their bizarre and senseless ramblings to weave the proverbial noose around their own necks. It’s all done with adroit editing that cleverly uses the subject’s own words or those of his/her she/xhe popcorn/pirate contemporaries against shimself, painting they/who as the twisted buffoon shuzbut is. Then, with dark chocolate deliciousness, Walsh delivers the coup de grâce and asks the physician, university professor, or Congressman, “What is a woman,” after which they all, without fail, transition into human pinball games stuck and sputtering on TILT while choking on puberty blockers and hypocrisy.
While it may not be the most Christian of things, watching What is a Woman without a warm blanket of schadenfreude settling over you is impossible. Moreover, were we living in sane times, What is a Woman would win over converts by the droves. However, this is a world in which blue-haired men who think they are lady wolves are taken seriously by college professors in Kiefer Sutherland cosplay (watch and tell me that’s not the look he’s going for). Therefore, it may take your shaved-headed barista sister-in-law with a degree in queer gender studies multiple viewings to make a dent.
Serving up slaughtered Leftist doctrine with wit, sagacity, and two true and titanium testicles, What is a Woman is a must-see for those who feel overwhelmed at the prospect of addressing this subject with those in the opposition. Walsh and team give you the tools to shine the light of truth on this darkness, and they are so simple that anyone can wield them. We unflinchingly mark What is a Woman as Worth it.
WHAT IS A WOMAN? ROLE MODELS
It’s easy to remain silent in the face of a seemingly intractable foe, and when they have access to all of the weaponry (i.e. media, Hollywood, and the education system), no one could fault you for sticking your head betwixt your legs and choosing to mind your own business. In defiance of this, Matt Walsh has fearlessly placed himself at the forefront of the opposition to this madness. Now, he needs our prayers, and deserves our respect.
WOKE ELEMENTS
None.
James Carrick
James Carrick is a passionate film enthusiast with a degree in theater and philosophy. James approaches dramatic criticism from a philosophic foundation grounded in aesthetics and ethics, offering insight and analysis that reveals layers of cinematic narrative with a touch of irreverence and a dash of snark.
16 comments
biden
June 4, 2023 at 10:59 pm
I love when men tell WOMEN who they are and how they should act, how inclusive and kind 😍😍.Thank you soooo much because why would actual women decide when it could be mansplained to them?
Ray
June 6, 2023 at 1:17 pm
Dear Biden, obviously you have not seen the film. Matt Walsh doesn’t ANYBODY who they are, he simply asks the question “what is a woman?” Can you answer that question or are you just here to troll?
august cornelia
July 3, 2023 at 1:08 pm
he tells the viewer because the movie unsurprinsingly has a narrative
he is not asking people without bias, hes guiding the entire doc to a conclusion lmao
literally watch just the ending scene
Ano
July 4, 2023 at 3:35 am
Although that might be true in part, at least he can give a non-circulair answer on the question. So he’s both asking the question and telling his point of view. Although it might seem long forgotten, it’s ‘ trying’ to start a conversation/discussion not just making a claim and run away when it gets challenged.
Marcia Cal
June 11, 2023 at 10:38 pm
Because they have the common sense lost to many that call themselves a woman but could also be a dog or a crocodile.
Jennifer
June 19, 2023 at 5:48 pm
I watched this movie the night it premiered in 2022 and yes, it was fascinating to see how so many women have been shut down and shut out by men forcing them to be quiet about their privacy concerns. Look at all the female athletes being told by men, “You don’t have the right to be uncomfortable with men watching you undress in the privacy of your locker room. You don’t have the right to be uncomfortable seeing a stranger’s private parts in your locker room. You don’t have the right to medal in your own event when a man wants to compete with you.” Praise God for Matt Walsh shining a light on this. The trans ideology and movement is the opposite of inclusive and it very much represses women’s rights. Thanks for pointing this out.
Charles
June 1, 2024 at 9:06 pm
If we’re equal it’s not mansplaining its logic… I guess we’re not equal. That was way too emotional to be equal to male logic.
Brian
June 5, 2023 at 12:01 am
Is this the first 100% on Woke or Worth It? Based beyond belief. Film is fantastic. I love what Matt & the Daily Wire people did with this one. It is a real eye-opener.
Eduardo Viana
June 5, 2023 at 10:30 pm
Amazing movie! Everyone should watch it.
Chris
June 9, 2023 at 9:33 am
Quite amazing, I must say. This film displays the saturation of those that believe the nonsense of the transgender world, in their own words! Probably one of the most truthful documentaries produced in the last 50 years.
Charles
June 19, 2023 at 2:08 pm
Remarkable film. Academic prevarication and obfuscation at its worst.
You got the impression they were not fully aware the ideology possessing them had destroyed any real empathy they may have had. They appeared to be cut off from their own humanity, almost robotically following ideological orders. I can think of instances in mid C20 history where equally possessed people behaved in much the same perversely innocent way, detached from their own humanity and human respect for others. Ideology must come before humanity.
What is a Woman is a chilling warning of the reality that the educated and intelligent, particularly those who may be slightly inadequate and more likely to go with the herd, contrary to popular belief,are the most vulnerable to ideological possession and consequent detachment from humanity.
TrulyWoke
June 20, 2023 at 5:19 pm
Gender ideology is a load of mysognistic rubbish and has left me both alienated from the left and politically homeless (hence my username, TrulyWoke), but Matt Walsh’s thesis in this ‘film’ is also utterly incorrect.
Biology =/= gender
Gender roles are social constructs and they always have been. A woman is a woman because she is biologically female, not because she needs a man to open a jar for her.
Selrisitai
December 9, 2023 at 7:09 pm
You’re trying to create some kind of universal reality, but the fact is that the word “gender” was synonymous—ergo, interchangeable—with the word “sex” for most of its existence. Only recently did the definition “social roles” become a definition of the word “gender.”
Even if “gender” always meant “societal roles based on sex,” your assertion that Matt Walsh’s position is “incoherent” would still be incorrect, because despite the obfuscating language and the claim from gender ideologists that they’re not concerned with biological sex, the truth is that they think that not only are genders (by their definition) are social constructs, but sex itself is a social construct, and that genitals are just coincidences.
A woman is a woman because she is a woman, and THEREFORE she will need a man to open a jar for her. There’s nothing prescriptive here, this is an observation of physical reality. Your belief that women don’t need men to open their jars is a foolhardy one that has never made anyone happy. Men don’t complain that they have to open the jars, but feminists love to complain that men happily open jars for them. Consider why such an insane scenario would exist. It AIN’T because men told women they couldn’t open jars and women, being fully capable of opening jars, resented it.
Men kept being asked to open jars, by women, and so they noted it. And then women resented it. Why?
Bob Barker
June 26, 2023 at 4:58 am
@TrulyWoke
Biology == Gender.
It’s in the linguistics of the word. The term ‘Gender’ refers to a language model which identifies the biological concept of ‘male’ and ‘female’; all languages (English, Russian, Chinese, Yu’pik, Cherokee… pretty much everybody since the beginning of time) have done this, at the very least, from the beginning of language.
Now, Gender roles are social constructs; I come from an egalitarian society, where gender roles are fluid based on skills, preferences and expectations. I grew up with my grandmother and then my aunts being the leaders of the family.
Gender roles =! gender
Linguistically speaking, the ‘gender’ in ‘gender roles’ acts as an adjective to tell the reader/listener about the specific type of ‘roles’ to which the speaker refers; however, ‘gender’ as a noun refers to any given language’s commonly accepted rules about how to refer to the biological traits that makes a person a ‘male’ or a ‘female’. to be sure, there are more genders, such as hermaphrodite; but, these biological traits are rare and produce a non-functioning sexual system, on average.
TL;DR – The term ‘gender’ is a linguistic construct that allows speakers to reference biological beings with specific reproductive attributes.
Mike D.
June 28, 2023 at 2:55 pm
If this is indeed a journey filled with monsters and morons, then kudos to whoever picked Matt Walsh to front it. He fits both bills!
Al
August 17, 2023 at 1:50 am
What is with all these downvotes to perfectly reasonable comments? Can people really not stand facts, logic, or that someone may hold a different opinion to them? What I really don’t get with this movement, if biology and genitals don’t define gender how does removing them affirm it?