Matt Walsh Reacts To 'What is a Woman？' TikToks
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Summary
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?
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You know, it's a combination of your physical attributes
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So it looks like we've got a bunch of people on TikTok
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giving their own attempts at defining the word woman.
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I've yet to hear a good definition from anybody on the left.
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I'm always ears wide open for anyone who wants to give it a try.
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Can we talk about the definition of woman for a second, please?
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So let me tell you what the definition of woman is.
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And as such, the definition of woman, which is a gender,
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will change depending on where and who you are.
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The definition for gender overall will be different across countries.
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Biologically speaking, it doesn't even make sense to try and define woman through biology
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Everyone who says that motherhood is what makes you a woman
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is literally just invalidating every woman who either can't have kids
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The same applies to sexual organs and genitalia.
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So let's start with there isn't a definition for a woman.
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You cannot use a word if it doesn't have a definition.
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If by your own telling it has no definition, then what are you doing using it?
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So just as a comparison, if I were to tell you this.
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Hey, I was walking down the street the other day and I saw a zipper do.
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I saw a zipper do when I was walking down the street.
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How can I possibly be talking about a thing that has no meaning and no definition?
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So if that is what you actually believe, then you are not allowed to use the word anymore.
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You can't talk about the alleged women gender pay gap.
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Well, that would be a word that has no meaning.
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And then from there, we get the standard, which we've addressed at length.
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A female, that is the sex that is supposed to be able to bear offspring.
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There can be old age, which would all preclude those things.
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But that is still a capability that this category of person is supposed to be able to have.
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This question isn't the gotcha that they think it is.
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And then having an e-jerk reaction being like, hi, you can't define Europe.
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What's difficult is about defining the boundaries, not the ones that are right in the middle.
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And turns out, TERFs can't properly define the boundaries either.
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So this is actually not an attempt to answer the question.
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And most of the attempts to answer the question are attempts, obviously, to evade the question, which is exactly what this is.
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And by drawing a totally incoherent comparison, not everything is the same.
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But even if you can't, or even if you want to say, well, it changes over time and all this stuff.
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Well, that's your opinion, and it's her opinion, but it's not my opinion.
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It's something that people come up with, and then we draw the boundaries, and we define it.
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We came up with names for these things, but we didn't come up with the concept.
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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.
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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.
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But it's rooted in a fundamental misunderstanding of how language works and how we define people.
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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.
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Or today, when someone responded to a transphobe to my name, they defined women.
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And they responded with someone who bears or has the capability to bear eggs.
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And someone simply responded to them with a photo of a man holding a tray of eggs.
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Well, you can't say that women have the capability to bear eggs because what about men who can hold chicken eggs?
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And so the member of the human species who can produce eggs, that would be the female.
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Well, you know, a man can buy eggs at the grocery store.
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First of all, again, a chair is actually a human...
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And so it does not belong in the same category of existence as biological entities.
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Women are thoughtfulness, kindness, understanding.
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So I guess we've established what we knew to begin with, that they can't define the term.
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But it was a fun journey to get back to this same conclusion anyway.