Mike Rowe (Dirty Jobs) recently offered a summary of the popular cry “let’s go Brandon” in a comment that went viral. When a reporter pretended a crowd expressing their displeasure with the President was merely cheering the winner of a Nascar race, the minced oath for “f*** Joe Biden” was born. The term and the attitude behind it were broken down by Rowe as follows:

I think people have just become sick and tired of being told that what they’re seeing and what they’re hearing is not what they’re seeing and hearing… I think they’re enemies of being told that what they’re seeing and what they’re hearing isn’t real, that it’s somehow a figment of their imagination.

That quote rang in my head as I sat through Matt Walsh’s “What Is A Woman?” In this documentary, you will see the pressure to ignore reality in order to further a “noble cause,” on which truth must be sacrificed. It appears that everyone is aware of it. It’s one thing to see over-credentialed professors spin webs of incoherent gibberish to justify gender fluidity. It’s quite another when Walsh stands in front of a group of women, poses this question to them, and they all stand silent. Some of them squeak nervous giggles as they shift their weight from one foot to the other, hoping that the laughter will take away their obvious discomfort. It remains to be seen whether they are “sick and tired” of it, as Rowe observes. But it’s clear that a command from on high has been issued to accept a false reality. The fear this instills in both the elite and the common man is undeniable.

Let me clarify that this is still a film review, and everything mentioned previously is not only appropriate, but also necessary for judging the film. I don’t watch enough documentaries to know if it’s difficult to make a good one. I can say with more certainty that it is rare to see one that is so good that it captivates an audience other than docu-fans. It’s even rarer for a good one to rely on shockingly accurate portrayals of its subjects rather than sensational distortions of the realities it seeks to uncover. That’s why I told my wife the next day that, as a film, this one competes with The Last Dance.

Perhaps I’m giving away the plot here, but understanding What Is A Woman? is to recognize it as a tongue-in-cheek film. Because the answer should be obvious, the film title is a stupid question. That is the film’s point. Walsh brings that point home with wickedly patient subtlety, directed masterfully by Justin Folk (No Safe Spaces). Walsh doesn’t need to preach sermons to you in a world so devoid of fundamental truths. He only needs to pretend to be an oblivious observer, gallivanting from town to town, country to country, continent to continent (literally), exposing what the degraded culture has forgotten. The fundamental responses to fundamental truths. It’s like seeing Christ bait his opponents with the simple question, “whose image is this on the coin?”

As Walsh locks his eyes at his interview subjects, the film locks it’s eyes at you, quietly acknowledging that it knows what you know. That it is aware you are attempting to conceal your knowledge. And the truth hasn’t changed despite every song and dance you’ve performed to hide it. The film dares to present, in Walsh’s personality, that both sides of the argument have a mutual understanding of what the truth is, and that the only way out of the truth is to lie. Not to make a mistake, misinterpret something, or even believe something falsely. It is to intentionally lie. The film dares to show that we both know this, regardless of what we say about it.

Interestingly, Walsh’s dry wit leads to a sense of optimism. On that note, much has been said about his wife handing him a jar to open, and Scott Nugent’s story, a woman attempting to heal from the scars of a previous life of gender-swapping surgeries. These are brilliantly placed and have probably sparked the most hope in the majority of viewers. I don’t disagree, but please allow me to make another suggestion.

Walsh visits a tribal Kenyan village in a frequently promoted scene from the documentary. In between javelin throwing demonstrations and bites of animal kidneys, he asks the same questions that have stumped university professors and “gender-affirming” pediatricians. To cut a long story short, this primitive tribe appeared to be the only people in the film who were grounded enough to question the nonsense that was quickly becoming the baseline of the western zeitgeist. They make fun of it. They even declare their disinterest in joining this culture.

That scene isn’t just hopeful because some primitive tribe knows basic human biology better than our institutional elites. It is hopeful because it reminds you that the lunacy of this culture exists only in a bubble. This crap has no chance of lasting outside of an insular universe. As pervasive as gender ideology is, the film presents you with a larger, more original world in that moment. Where the sun rises and sets as it has always done, and a man can rest assured in the same rules that God has placed in nature since the beginning of time. Watching this primitive tribe laugh at the nonsense of genderfluidity confirms Walsh’s statement on the Dr. Phil show wasn’t all that profound. It’s ridiculously obvious. You don’t get your own pronouns.

What Is A Woman? can be streamed on The Daily Wire.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TqBguWbia_o