What Is a Woman BEST MOMENTS Part 1 Matt Walsh — Transcript

Full transcript

1. 0:00With the fluidity of these things,
2. 0:02how do I know if if I'm a woman? You
3. 0:04know, I I
4. 0:06That's a great question. I like scented
5. 0:08candles and Yeah. I've watched Sex and
6. 0:10the City. Yeah.
7. 0:11Um Yeah.
8. 0:13So, how do I know? Yeah, that that
9. 0:15question right there, like that question
10. 0:19is like when it's asked with a lot of
11. 0:22curiosity, right? That's the beginning
12. 0:23of a lot of people's like gender
13. 0:25identity development journeys. If my mom
14. 0:28who gave birth to me is
15. 0:30a woman. Mhm.
16. 0:32And my wife is a woman. Um though I
17. 0:35haven't asked her.
18. 0:36Maybe I should. Um
19. 0:39But if they're all women and also the
20. 0:40boy who sits down with you and says I I
21. 0:42think I'm a girl
22. 0:44actually is one, then then what is a
23. 0:46woman? Mhm.
24. 0:49Yeah.
25. 0:51Great question. I'm not a woman, so I I
26. 0:53I can't really answer that.
27. 0:57I don't care if you think you're a sheep
28. 0:59dog
29. 1:01and you come into my store, it don't
30. 1:03matter to me. Just don't come in and try
31. 1:06to shove that [ __ ] down my throat. If it
32. 1:08makes someone feel better, what about
33. 1:10their their feelings? I mean
34. 1:11I don't give a [ __ ] about their
35. 1:12feelings. I'm old. What about the Star
36. 1:14Wars universe?
37. 1:15Jar Jar Binks,
38. 1:17pansexual, do you think?
39. 1:19Transgender?
40. 1:21Um
41. 1:22Why would I Why would I even care? It's
42. 1:25If it's his truth.
43. 1:27Well, it ain't true. You're not a
44. 1:29scientist. You're not a gender studies
45. 1:30major. Or are you? No.
46. 1:32How do you know that you're a man? How
47. 1:34do I know that I'm a I guess because I
48. 1:36got a dick.
49. 1:39So what So what
50. 1:42What is a woman?
51. 1:48Why do you ask that question?
52. 1:51I just really like to know.
53. 1:54What do you think the answer to that
54. 1:55question is?
55. 1:59Well, I'm I'm asking. That's why I came
56. 2:01to a college professor who who's
57. 2:04who this is your This is what you do.
58. 2:07What other kinds of answers have you
59. 2:08gotten?
60. 2:14A lot of like this where you're where
61. 2:15you're not answering. I've got a lot of
62. 2:16that, so. I think it's interesting that
63. 2:18you that you say that some of the people
64. 2:20you've you've um interviewed have been
65. 2:22um reluctant to answer it, and I think
66. 2:23that has a lot to do with the way the
67. 2:25questions that preceded it and the the
68. 2:27way that you've conducted yourself in
69. 2:28the interview. How have I conducted
70. 2:30myself?
71. 2:31How do you think you've conducted
72. 2:31yourself?
73. 2:33You Yeah.
74. 2:36You just really don't want to answer the
75. 2:37questions, do you?
76. 2:39I I came today very willing and and
77. 2:41enthusiastic about answering questions
78. 2:43about women's and gender sexuality
79. 2:44studies, which is what I do.
80. 2:46You wanted to answer questions about
81. 2:47women's studies, and so shouldn't the
82. 2:49the first
83. 2:50answer you should be able to provide is
84. 2:52what exactly is a woman?
85. 2:53Well, it's it For me, it's it's actually
86. 2:55a really simple answer, and that's a
87. 2:56person who identifies as a woman. But
88. 2:58what are they identifying as? As a
89. 3:00woman. As But what is that?
90. 3:03As a woman.
91. 3:05Do you know what a circular definition
92. 3:06is?
93. 3:08I do.
94. 3:11It's sort of like
95. 3:12what you're doing right now. Where a a
96. 3:14woman is is a woman. Mhm.
97. 3:16Well, cuz you're seeking what we would
98. 3:17call in my field of work an essentialist
99. 3:20definition of gender. I think it sounds
100. 3:23like you would like me to give you a set
101. 3:24of biological or cultural
102. 3:26characteristics that are associated with
103. 3:29one gender or the other. I'm not seeking
104. 3:31any type of definition. I'm just seeking
105. 3:33a definition. Yeah, and I gave you one.
106. 3:36Sure. Uh
107. 3:38At what age can a child first
108. 3:41begin to
109. 3:43transition into another gender or
110. 3:45identify themselves as
111. 3:47a gender different from how they were
112. 3:49born? Yeah. Well, I mean, there's
113. 3:51there's research and data that show that
114. 3:53um babies and infants um understand
115. 3:56differences in gender.
116. 3:58I don't know if you've ever heard of
117. 4:00people in the trans abled community.
118. 4:02These are people who are physically
119. 4:05able-bodied but feel like they should be
120. 4:07disabled or identify as such. Uh for
121. 4:10example, a man who has two arms but
122. 4:12feels like he should have one. If a if a
123. 4:14man in this kind of marginalized
124. 4:16community was went to the doctor and
125. 4:18said, "I want to have
126. 4:20my arm cut off."
127. 4:22Do you think that that That has nothing
128. 4:23to do with gender identity.
129. 4:25Well, it's So someone's
130. 4:27someone's self-identity and how someone
131. 4:29identifies.
132. 4:29That sounds That's someone who has a um
133. 4:33a and I'll accept it as a mental
134. 4:35diagnosis, a psychiatric condition. I
135. 4:39don't even pretend to know what
136. 4:40apotemnophilia is all about, but somehow
137. 4:43it's the idea that you want to you know,
138. 4:44you're fascinated or charmed by having a
139. 4:46limb or part of a limb missing. Mhm.
140. 4:49Okay? I would say that's
141. 4:52uh
142. 4:53pardon my non-medical language, kooky.
143. 4:57You don't see any
144. 4:59You think it's just totally irrelevant?
145. 5:01Yep.