A sort of recommendation with caveats

 Last night, somewhat against my better inclinations, I watched Matt Walsh's "documentary" "What is a Woman?"

Some of it was very good.  Some of it was cringey. I wish he would have cut the snark and provocation and taken the subject seriously. So I can't really recommend it, but I can't really not recommend it, either.

The best parts were the serious interviews, one with an adolescent psychiatrist (old school) who explained the Kinsey report and other research that led us to this morass, and the Britsh theologian Carl Trueman who explained how identity and emotion figure into these developments.

If you can skip through to those folks, it will be worth your time. Other good points are Jordan Peterson (I just like how he talks, but sometimes he's a bit much) and the Canadian father on the telephone. Also the academic who teaches women's studies but cannot define a woman. And Debra Soh, who has some credibility as a neuroscientist. 

(Walsh did not go to college and clearly has a bias against higher education or anyone more educated than he. The way he edits the interview with the professor sort of signals that.)

As a woman, I am offended by any man or woman equating womanhood with makeup and dressing up. My life as a woman has been defined by relationships, marriage, motherhood, abuse, dealing with some levels of opposition to my career and and spiritual aspirations, and mostly joy. Not by frilly dresses, false eyelashes, and bubble baths. In this day, a woman who likes the outdoors and "guy stuff" should not be told by others that she is anything other than a woman who likes the physical world. No one has that right, and neither do they have the right to insinuate a gentle and musically talented young man is not a "full man."

The core: at this time, certain elements of society in academia and related areas, in concert with social media and activist groups, are confusing language and emphasizing subjective emotions. Why? and why such violent resistance to any desire to debate this matter?

Follow the money. Media makes money from our fascination with this overblown topic. And there is an argument that some elements in medicine do, too. 

However, there is a lot more clickbait than serious journalism on this issue.  To say nothing of the dirth of recognition and compassion in the video of and for those who experience the dysphoria that leads to the search for decisions.