What Is a Woman? movie review - Aussieboyreviews

IS WHAT IS A WOMAN MORE TRANSPHOBIC THAN INFORMING?

Absolutely not, but it’s just as terrifying and distressing as informative. Is the world really becoming this woke? To the point where it’s a criminal offence to misgender someone and there are ridiculous pronouns? Wow…

Storyline

Matt Walsh travels to different parts of the world questioning the gender ideology movement and trying to figure out the answer to a controversial question nobody seems to know the answer to; what is a woman?

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Movie details

Director: Justin Folk
Cast: Matt Walsh, Michelle Forcier, Patrick Grzanka, Miriam Grossman, Gert Comfrey, Marci Bowers, Jordan Peterson, Mark Takano
Release Date: 1 June 2022
Runtime: 95 minutes/1h 35m
Genre: Documentary
Country: USA
Language: English

CONTENT GUIDE (warning: May contain spoilers)

Themes (M)

Themes in the film include discussions of transgenderism, transphobia, gender dysphoria and identity, abortion, child abuse, puberty blocker drugs, mental health and suicide. There is a scene in which an animal is killed for food.

Violence (G)

A man is shoulder bumped by another man during a protest.

Coarse Language (PG)

The film includes use of the words “s**t”, “**shole”, “d**k” and infrequent bleeped out use of coarse language.

Nudity (G)

There is cartoon breast nudity in an educational diagram on sex.

Sex (PG)

The film includes references to sex, educational cartoon images of sexual activity and bleeped use of the word “f**k” in a sexual context.

mpaa rating

NR (Not Rated)

Aussie boy's thoughts

Matt Walsh isn’t being transphobic or hateful in this powerful documentary. He’s rather exposing how obsessed American society and the world is becoming with gender and identity politics. In What Is a Woman?, he goes on to travel to different parts of the word and interviews people participating in the Women’s March, random folks and psychological professionals about this subject matter, both with agreeing and disagreeing opinions, followed by the question they can’t seem to specifically answer; what is a woman?

This documentary film strives to point out the truth and the reality, in which it understands that the reality is the fact that men can’t become women, women can’t become men, there are only two genders and the main question (or the title) is specifically easy to answer. The people interviewed in this film, interestingly the professionals who take the time to sit down and talk, become easily uncomfortable by Walsh’s question and the thought of ‘the truth’. Most documentaries are organised and discuss the truth very maturely, but in this one, everybody shows clear emotion and frustration in their talking.

Quite honestly, this film starts off on a fairly light pace and takes the opportunities to be funny at several times throughout, but this is until it takes a maddening descent into the truth and becomes very serious, very deep, in a way terrifying, and completely unflinching of the truth, which is where you need to come into this film with an open mind. It shows how woke the world has become quite recently and now even the truth can get you in serious trouble. What Is a Woman is very informative, all while never transphobic, closed-minded and confronting.

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