The Matt Walsh Show - June 10, 2023


Matt Walsh Reacts To 'What is a Woman？' TikToks


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Length

8 minutes

Words per minute

179.5842

Word count

1,503

Sentence count

147

Harmful content

Misogyny

21

sentences flagged

Hate speech

6

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Summary

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What is a woman? What does a woman have to do with it? What is it even a thing? And why is it so hard to define women? Is it because women can't have kids? Or because they don't want to have them? Or is it because there's no such thing as a woman anymore?

Transcript

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00:00:00.000 What is a woman? 1.00
00:00:03.460 Can you tell me what a woman is? 1.00
00:00:06.400 No, I can't.
00:00:07.520 You know, it's a combination of your physical attributes
00:00:10.920 and then what you're showing to the world
00:00:13.300 and the gender clues that you give.
00:00:16.200 So it looks like we've got a bunch of people on TikTok
00:00:17.740 giving their own attempts at defining the word woman.
00:00:21.120 I've yet to hear a good definition from anybody on the left.
00:00:23.620 I'm always ears wide open for anyone who wants to give it a try.
00:00:26.580 So let's just start at the top with clip one.
00:00:28.460 Can we talk about the definition of woman for a second, please?
00:00:32.420 Because I'm really tired of people saying that
00:00:35.140 oh, lips can't even define the word woman. 0.99
00:00:38.440 Well, first of all, I'm not a liberal.
00:00:40.440 I'm a leftist.
00:00:41.220 So let me tell you what the definition of woman is. 1.00
00:00:47.760 There isn't one.
00:00:50.160 Not this again.
00:00:51.420 Yes, Francine. This again.
00:00:53.520 Gender is a social construct.
00:00:55.040 And as such, the definition of woman, which is a gender,
00:00:59.320 will change depending on where and who you are.
00:01:02.680 The definition for gender overall will be different across countries.
00:01:07.180 Biologically speaking, it doesn't even make sense to try and define woman through biology 1.00
00:01:11.960 because not all females are the same.
00:01:16.200 Example number one, some can't have kids.
00:01:19.160 Everyone who says that motherhood is what makes you a woman
00:01:22.560 is literally just invalidating every woman who either can't have kids
00:01:27.800 or doesn't want to have kids.
00:01:29.740 The same applies to sexual organs and genitalia.
00:01:34.480 Okay.
00:01:35.680 My God has forsaken me.
00:01:38.220 So let's start with there isn't a definition for a woman. 1.00
00:01:41.920 Well, to begin with then, stop using the word.
00:01:45.200 You cannot use a word if it doesn't have a definition.
00:01:49.200 If by your own telling it has no definition, then what are you doing using it?
00:01:52.160 So just as a comparison, if I were to tell you this.
00:01:54.500 Hey, I was walking down the street the other day and I saw a zipper do.
00:01:58.520 I saw a zipper do when I was walking down the street.
00:02:00.220 Can you believe it?
00:02:00.660 I saw this really big zipper do.
00:02:02.620 And then you said, what's that?
00:02:03.760 What is a zipper do?
00:02:04.460 What is that?
00:02:05.640 And I said, oh, it doesn't have it.
00:02:06.780 It's not anything.
00:02:07.320 It doesn't have a definition.
00:02:08.500 You see the problem here?
00:02:09.260 How can I possibly be talking about a thing that has no meaning and no definition?
00:02:15.560 This becomes incoherent babble.
00:02:19.780 Please, no gibberish tonight.
00:02:22.000 Please, I beg you.
00:02:22.820 Sorry, daddy.
00:02:23.780 So if that is what you actually believe, then you are not allowed to use the word anymore.
00:02:28.740 You can't talk about women's rights. 1.00
00:02:30.120 You can't talk about women's equality. 1.00
00:02:32.040 You can't talk about the alleged women gender pay gap. 1.00
00:02:36.500 You can't call yourself a woman.
00:02:37.900 What is the definition of a nonsense word?
00:02:43.540 Well, that would be a word that has no meaning.
00:02:45.120 And then from there, we get the standard, which we've addressed at length.
00:02:50.120 But the old...
00:02:51.140 There are some women who can't get pregnant. 1.00
00:02:53.540 You see?
00:02:54.440 Checkmate.
00:02:55.360 Checkmate.
00:02:56.900 A woman is a female. 1.00
00:02:57.880 A female, that is the sex that is supposed to be able to bear offspring. 1.00
00:03:02.840 There can be disease.
00:03:04.380 There could be genetic abnormalities.
00:03:06.200 There could be mutations.
00:03:07.120 There can be injury.
00:03:08.760 There can be sickness.
00:03:09.840 There can be old age, which would all preclude those things.
00:03:13.060 But that is still a capability that this category of person is supposed to be able to have.
00:03:18.400 Let's continue.
00:03:19.340 This question isn't the gotcha that they think it is.
00:03:21.760 It's like asking, oh, can you define Europe?
00:03:23.980 And then having an e-jerk reaction being like, hi, you can't define Europe.
00:03:27.040 Don't you know Germany's in Europe?
00:03:28.300 Of course, Germany is in Europe. 0.78
00:03:29.920 But what about Greenland?
00:03:31.460 What about Russia?
00:03:32.620 What about Turkey?
00:03:33.740 What's difficult is about defining the boundaries, not the ones that are right in the middle.
00:03:37.340 And turns out, TERFs can't properly define the boundaries either.
00:03:40.420 So this is actually not an attempt to answer the question.
00:03:43.380 And most of the attempts to answer the question are attempts, obviously, to evade the question, which is exactly what this is.
00:03:49.900 And by drawing a totally incoherent comparison, not everything is the same.
00:03:59.420 Not everything is comparable.
00:04:00.620 Tomato, tomato, what's the difference?
00:04:02.580 Woman is a biological category. 1.00
00:04:04.420 A continent is not.
00:04:06.500 Even a country is not.
00:04:08.260 We could reduce it down.
00:04:10.380 Just talk about a country.
00:04:12.100 These are not biological categories.
00:04:14.120 And so they aren't comparable.
00:04:15.600 You actually can define Europe.
00:04:17.880 I mean, it does have definable boundaries.
00:04:20.560 But even if you can't, or even if you want to say, well, it changes over time and all this stuff.
00:04:26.100 Okay, that actually is a human construct.
00:04:30.820 You see, that's the difference.
00:04:32.200 Well, that's your opinion, and it's her opinion, but it's not my opinion.
00:04:35.560 It's something that people come up with, and then we draw the boundaries, and we define it.
00:04:42.380 Woman is not a human construct. 1.00
00:04:44.400 We did not invent the reality of females.
00:04:48.160 We came up with names for these things, but we didn't come up with the concept.
00:04:53.460 That's the difference.
00:04:54.660 I don't know how else to explain it.
00:04:56.380 Hopefully that was clear enough.
00:04:57.440 Nothing is clear to these people.
00:04:58.680 In the not-too-distant past, private citizens used to be largely that, if you can imagine, private.
00:05:02.820 What's changed?
00:05:03.600 Well, the internet changed.
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00:05:56.860 What you'll frequently see from transphobic people on platforms such as Twitter or even in meetings with politicians is that they start yelling, define women.
00:06:07.140 And this has become a kind of mantra for the transphobic movement, the concept that for some reason trans-inclusive people can't define women.
00:06:15.420 But it's rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how language works and how we define people.
00:06:20.740 And you see this pretty clearly when you see people like Graham Lynham fail to define a chair in a way that he ends up including a horse in the description of the chair.
00:06:32.360 Or today, when someone responded to a transphobe to my name, they defined women.
00:06:35.920 And they responded with someone who bears or has the capability to bear eggs.
00:06:41.420 And someone simply responded to them with a photo of a man holding a tray of eggs.
00:06:47.020 Turn this off.
00:06:48.380 Really, that's what we're doing now?
00:06:49.860 Well, you can't say that women have the capability to bear eggs because what about men who can hold chicken eggs?
00:06:54.540 Really?
00:06:55.020 You think that is a gotcha?
00:06:57.240 You think, really?
00:06:58.480 The word literally means to produce.
00:07:01.080 And so the member of the human species who can produce eggs, that would be the female. 0.99
00:07:06.800 Well, you know, a man can buy eggs at the grocery store.
00:07:09.740 So that means...
00:07:11.340 And this thing about the chair.
00:07:13.360 You hear this a lot from the trans activists.
00:07:15.500 First of all, again, a chair is actually a human...
00:07:19.580 It is literally a human construct.
00:07:21.040 It is something that humans construct.
00:07:22.380 It's something that we make.
00:07:23.880 And so it does not belong in the same category of existence as biological entities.
00:07:32.440 Okay, we'll do one more.
00:07:33.660 I don't even know why we're doing this.
00:07:34.660 Nobody can, you know, define what a woman is. 0.99
00:07:38.560 You define it.
00:07:40.120 Oh, I'm good at this.
00:07:41.880 Let me help.
00:07:43.900 Women are strength. 1.00
00:07:45.780 Women are power. 1.00
00:07:48.880 Women are thoughtfulness, kindness, understanding. 1.00
00:07:53.660 Never mind.
00:07:54.400 No, you're not good at this.
00:07:55.940 You're not good at this.
00:07:56.560 There it is.
00:07:57.200 That's the definition.
00:07:57.920 Women are strength and power. 1.00
00:07:59.340 I am all powerful!
00:08:01.860 There it is.
00:08:02.880 Debunked.
00:08:03.660 All right.
00:08:04.120 So I guess we've established what we knew to begin with, that they can't define the term.
00:08:07.800 But it was a fun journey to get back to this same conclusion anyway.
00:08:11.960 And we'll wrap it up there.
00:08:13.220 Talk to you tomorrow.
00:08:14.360 Godspeed.
00:08:14.680 What is a woman? 1.00
00:08:19.780 What is she made of?