Posted on 06/15/2022 4:06:30 AM PDT by ViLaLuz
It’s unsettling enough to confront moral relativism as an abstract idea, but it’s downright chilling to see it in real people who let it dictate their lives. ...
Produced by conservative news outlet The Daily Wire, the 1-hour and 35-minute film — this month rated number one for “Movies at Home” on Rotten Tomatoes — follows author, speaker, and podcast host Matt Walsh as he travels across the country and overseas, seeking an answer to the title question.
As a cultural commentator, Walsh has made clear what he (and up until recently, every human civilization) believes a woman is: an adult human female. Yet with a tongue-in-cheek ignorance, Walsh opens the film feeling overwhelmed by conflicting messages about gender identity and sets out to find the truth.
The dramatized ignorance gives the film a touch of humor as well as objectivity. To each one of his interviewees (conservative or progressive), Walsh never argues for a viewpoint but only asks questions.
Unsettling Question
But throughout the documentary, what stands out is not so much Walsh’s question but the reactions to it. When he asks, “What is a woman?” to passersby in New York City and Hollywood, he’s answered with silence and nervous laughter. “I honestly don’t know,” says one.
The experts in academia and medicine also deflect the question. “I’m not a woman, so I can’t really answer that,” says a therapist. “It could mean many things to many people,” says a pediatrician. “What do you think?” says a professor.
Those are the friendlier responses. After repeating his question at the Women’s March in Washington, D.C., the marchers accuse him of harassment and start chanting “-ssh-le” as he walks by. In the one-on-one interviews with doctors, researchers, and a congressman, several of them abruptly call to end the interview. The congressman lasts the shortest.
Why is the question so unsettling? Perhaps because it seeks a definite answer.
One particular interview makes this clear. When Walsh tells a professor that he’s asking the question because he wants to find the truth, the professor bristles and asks that he stop using terms that are transphobic and rude.
In all likelihood, this professor and other interviewees would have jumped to answer the more open-ended question, “What does womanhood mean to you?” But the basic inquiry “What is a woman?” full-stop ruffles feathers because it asks for something universal.
Lack of Definition — and Reality
That’s a problem for our culture, since there is nothing universal about the people who identify as women, either biologically or temperamentally. Apparently, an athletic lesbian is just as much a woman as someone “assigned” male at birth who grew up liking Barbie dolls, and both are as much a woman as an hourglass-shaped pop star.
What do these people have in common? The world’s answer: they don’t need to have anything in common, because womanhood is whatever anyone wants it to be. It’s all personal, it’s all relative — so it’s all meaningless.
It’s unsettling enough to confront moral relativism as an abstract idea, but it’s downright chilling to see it in real people who let it dictate their lives — and would have it dictate their lives — and would have it dictate others’ too. Throughout the film, everyone who supports gender ideology cannot make any firm claim about reality. “What if my truth is that I’m a black man?” Walsh (who is very white) asks the professor, who pauses and then responds, “Are you?”
“What if my truth is that you don’t exist?” Walsh asks one woman. “Fine, then to you I don’t exist,” she shrugs.
Moral Relativism
In order for gender to be fluid, reality itself must be relative. To seek “the truth” is offensive because it might step on the toes of “my truth.”
This brings us back to the easily triggered interviewees. Driven by feelings, moral relativism is all niceness and tolerance until someone pokes at it with an appeal to truth, and then it can only lash out like a child.
We might read about such responses in anecdotes or articles, but seeing them happen in real conversations on screen makes it starkly clear: Our culture has murdered truth, and as a result, it is a weak and insecure creature. What’s more, it can only destroy itself, because when someone declares that “my truth” is hatred, violence, or terrorism, relativism has no moral power to call it wrong.
Walsh’s documentary doesn’t offer much in terms of healing mainstream culture, but for anyone who wants to try, examining that culture up close is a key first step. For that, “What is a Woman?” is a must-watch.
“What is a Woman?” is available to stream on DailyWire.com.
You’ve gotta love how the deranged “pediatrician” became suddenly hostile and wanted to “end the interview“ when Matt started talking about puberty blockers as the same drugs used to chemically castrate sex offenders. It was like a Jekyll and Hyde moment. She almost ran out of the room. Evil personified.
Read my tagline. It also applies to those who think they can control the narrative thus society.
Whats the phrase? In war the first casualty is truth.
Truth and reality have become fluid just as we have the technology to create a virtual world for these people to live within.
[Chilling Hostility To Truth]
A Sign of the Times. Isaiah 5:20.
It is necessary for the world’s population to believe in lies. That way, the Father of Lies (that Old Serpent called the Devil and Satan) can introduce his anti-messiah to planet Earth.
I, too, am shocked at how many people are embracing incredible lies; like a man becoming a woman.
This is a ploy by the Father of Lies (John 8:44).
The mere fact that lies are being promoted on the airwaves (TV, radio, electronic media) tells me the Prince of the Power of the Air (Satan - Ephesians 2:2) is using same to prepare the world for the debut of his anti-messiah.
Maybe we are much worse off than I thought. Can these numb nut 🥜 idiots, walk and chew gum at the same time? Wokeness is a disease.
Despite the current mass formation insanity, reality has a way of reasserting itself - usually via the catastrophic or calamitous events that unfold as a consequence of those delusions.
I don’t think the Chinese are doing this. Their army should have an easy time of it, Satan not withstanding.
I’m not blaming the Chinese for this one. :)
Well, I am. This is being pushed. That means organization and money.
If you want to blame America for being Godless and weak, I agree with you. But, blaming it on Satan is a bit of a cop-out.
At least, that’s my opinion.
Satan is behind the spirit of antichrist.
The lies you see being pushed are being done of the children of disobedience. Their power and instruction comes from the spirit of antichrist.
Satan, as the god of this world (2nd Corinthians 4:3-4) gives power and fortune to whomever he wants.
It’s no mystery as to why men like George Soros have lots of money. It’s no mystery why someone like Obama has power and fame and fortune. They are doing the work of their (ultimate) father.
Were China to be stopped cold, the Dragon would still be on his throne. We put him there, after all. Way back in the Garden.
He will not be stopped until he is taken captive at the end of Armageddon. Yes, then let loose for a short season 1,000 years later.
These things have no human solution. I’m all for trying. However, one must understand this is not merely a simple battle between political ideologies and humans.
That’s not to excuse Leftist ideologies; simply that the children of disobedience embrace them. Yes, for a political end.
Ephesians 6:12
21st Century King James Version
12 For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, against powers, against the rulers of the darkness of this world, against spiritual wickedness in high places.
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians+6%3A12&version=KJ21
Oops let’s try that again
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=John%208:43-45&version=KJ21
John 8:43-45
21st Century King James Version
43 Why do ye not understand My speech? Even because ye cannot hear My Word!
44 Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will do. He was a murderer from the beginning, and abode not in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own, for he is a liar and the father of it.
45 And because I tell you the truth, ye believe Me not.
Ephesians 2:2-4
King James Version
2 Wherein in time past ye walked according to the course of this world, according to the prince of the power of the air, the spirit that now worketh in the children of disobedience:
3 Among whom also we all had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh and of the mind; and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others.
4 But God, who is rich in mercy, for his great love wherewith he loved us,
https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ephesians%202%3A2-4&version=KJV
The NWS forecast in my area for Sunday “Juneteenth” sunny 85°.
The NWS is a Gov’t website.
Juneteenth is a reality for somebody in charge... just as there are many realities tthat are, in reality... mere fiction.
Sadly not all see with spiritual eyes and ears. God bless you SF. 🙏
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