What Is a Woman?

A conservative dudebro trying to tell everyone what he thinks a woman is, and turns out it's someone who can ask him to open a jar. This documentary contains massive misunderstanding of science and history.

No revelations except the pharma angle, especially in canada, where doctors don't need parental consent to slice up and heavily medicate kids. The rest is a pretty biased showcase of the LGBTQ's lack of factual argumentation, hence refusal of discourse and denial of the most basic biological prerequisites. When i say biased, i mean walsh has clearly picked the unlikable and insane to make his case against. That's also no attempt at an honest debate. Shoutout to an underused Jordan Peterson.

I'm not bothered by the one-sidedness because almost every institution that shapes our ideas not only perpetuates lies ("transwomen ARE women") but enables shutting down opposition. (The Dr. Phil show was pulled.) The speed at which these Gender Studies "academics" need to flee or pull their "Transphobic!" gun also reveals a big problem w/ the field & as of 7/17/22, Rotten Tomatoes has only 4 media reviews: why aren't liberal critics eager to skewer this? Because they can't. So, they say nothing

Any decent discussion or debate is quickly killed by Walsh's antagonistic bias confirmation. He can't wrap his head around the answers to his questions because they don't align with his closed-minded world view. The only time he seemed satisfied was when his wife catered to his stereotypes and asked him to open a jar. And at least twice he whined about having to wear a mask while filming somewhere during a worldwide pandemic. What a turd.

Pretty well done. I don’t think his questions were unfair or ambushing in any way. He consulted numerous legitimate professionals involved in the gender transitioning community. However, it’s unfortunate that he betrayed a bias toward obstinacy mentioning feeling ‘suppressed’ by mask wearing indoors during what may have been peak COVID. Perhaps it was to make a point that he was willing to capitulate on things which made him personally uncomfortable? The ending with his wife was cringe.

In an insane world, this breath of sanity is most welcome.

Horrific and disturbing. Walsh does a decent and fair job presenting this subject.

America needs a factory reset.

Michael Moore lite in that it weaponizes its messaging (not saying it's anti-trans). It's meant to rouse emotion and be entertaining primarily, but that doesn't mean there are no facts. Walsh has a clear aim, and has even admitted that he trolled some. Soh, Peterson, good. Not the same quality as good MM. Some is cringey, soft, expected a firebrand but got a pretty good flick. Ideological leanings will dictate the enjoyment of most people anyway.

If one doesn’t find the central figure to be too painful (I really know nothing about Matt Walsh, nor about Justin Folk), and as long as one doesn’t expect to learn anything, then this documentary functions reasonably well as an attempt at handing out some rope and bits of wood and nails and letting experts and professionals go out of their way to publicly construct their own gallows. Certainly doesn’t attempt to “weigh the evidence” on “both sides” in any genuine way, but who does?

Walsh is often one-sided and regularly facetious (i.e., the pickle jar), but I don’t think that’s really a strong criticism. The same could be said of a lot of far superior satire. On the whole, this movie is better at pointing out problems than at grappling with complexity. It’s kind of dismaying, that a movie so preoccupied with pillorying groupthink is so smug and so uninterested in letting its audience think for themselves. Nonetheless, I think it deserves a larger viewership.

This topic could be investigated so much more effectively. This documentary is full of well-established facts that the target audience are already aware of. It's rushed and only scratches the surface. If there's one thing we've all seen enough of, it's predators with blue hair stomping on the rights of the vulnerable.

The movie making isn't particularly special, but the content is insane

Feels pretty one sided with specific agendas and biases. However, it’s well produced and does offer some interesting opinions and ideas on what defines a person on who they are and tackles things people would avoid talking about in public. Worth a watch regardless of political beliefs and trying to judge it fair and square.

More interested in playing the hits for the LibsOfTikTok crowd than in tackling any one issue thoroughly and meticulously. Matt Walsh is to the culture war issues of his day what Michael Moore or Bill Maher were to the Bush-era lightning rods of cultural division: he may be more right than wrong, but even his most incisive arguments get washed away by his insufferable shtick of feigned curiosity, which is every bit as off-putting as the feigned ignorance on the part of his interview subjects.

A documentary that never includes the obvious answer "Physical vs Psychological". Question answered, documentary over. Me left pissed at how stupid people can be.

What is a baby? What is a grandpa? What is a cat? What is a dog? These and other profound questions with answers lying in the farthest depths of the cosmos instill feelings of wonder and unease at the face of the unknown. What is a finger? What is a head? I marvel and I grasp for breath. I turn to Matt Walsh's film and after a thorough and exhausting search, facing walls and overcoming obstacles, academically researching the topic, he provides a satisfactory answer: it's an adult human female.

only saw clips in a video countering it. fascist propaganda garbage

The interview clips that already made their way to YouTube are the best parts and I found all of the other stuff (especially the staged scenes) pretty cringeworthy. It's clearly trying to be in a Michael Moore vein but it's mostly a full movie of the worst Moore bits.

This is not a politically unbiased documentary. Regardless, this needs to raise non-partisan critique of the current gender ideologue craze.

Obviously one-sided and a few moments may make your eyes roll, but still worth a watch as most people seem to prefer to ignore this topic altogether rather than risk upsetting anyone.

Disingenuous.Tries to mimic Michael Moore's documentary style but lacks the dynamism or wit of those. Promotes such tedious, erroneous ideas as "I'm a man, so I can't understand women" and "my daughter is emotional because she's a girl". Fair enough, the progressive ideology surrounding transgenderism is irrational but not only do the documentarians make that case poorly, their own beliefs are no less ridiculous. This is the documentary equivalent of an Adam Sandler Netflix comedy.