
Last night, I watched Matt Walsh’s documentary “What is a Woman?” on Twitter (which you can still watch for free until 7:30pm EST today, if you haven’t seen it yet). It is a shocking, frustrating, somewhat depressing piece of filmmaking. But I was particularly struck by a couple of things as I watched it:
- The unspeakable depravity and wickedness of Alfred Kinsey and John Money. I had some idea, but I never really knew, you know?
- The incredible mental gymnastics required to deny the ontological reality and fixedness of biological sex.
The second point in particular was driven home by one particular conversation, where Walsh asked an academic if we can safely determine that a chicken that lays eggs is female. The professor’s response sounded like something out of Portlandia.
This happened repeatedly throughout the documentary, as Walsh would ask questions to try to point out the logical fallacies inherent in the interviewee’s statements. The person he’s speaking to would either stare blankly, make a circular argument, or become angry. (At one point, a university professor gets angry because he says that Walsh’s use of the phrase “getting to the truth” sounds deeply “-phobic.”)
A critic of Walsh and the documentary might claim that the piece is selectively edited, or that Walsh is guilty of “nut-picking” by featuring only the most embarrassing clips of those he featured. Perhaps. But I don’t think that diminishes the fact that a question like “What actually is a woman?” is so simple a child could answer it but seems to stump multiple-degreed, professional adults. Why? Perhaps because their entire worldview seems to hang on not being able to acknowledge the answer.
As the Apostle Paul writes, “they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened…”
As a Christian, it’s also important to remember that these kinds of documentaries and discussions/debates are helpful to an extent, but they’re not enough on their own. The ultimate hope for those who are lost in the endless maze of post-modern sexual confusion isn’t reason or Socratic debate–it’s the Light that pierces into the darkness, giving sight to the spiritually blind. Only the Gospel of Jesus Christ can turn a person’s upside-down worldview right-side up again.
Now, as for the question of whether chickens can cry? I’m afraid I have to remain firmly agnostic.