.BigMeanInternet writes on the dangerous anti-trans documentary 'What is a Woman?'
Photo: Andrew Caballero-Reynolds/AFP via Getty Images Over time, words change. Stretched by the practicalities of real-world usage, our language warps and evolves. It’s an organic, unavoidable, and even auspicious process, but occasionally we’re liable to lose some valuable meaning we can’t easily recover. When that happens, it’s worth consciously deliberating as a society what we’re doing and why, lest the river of language carry us somewhere we don’t want to be.
By disguising a religious precept as a reasonable question, Walsh and his team have set out to win new friends and encourage existing allies at the same time. It’s an effective strategy, and the majority of us who understand the factual existence of trans people can’t afford to ignore them. Is Walsh a coward? Has he renounced Jesus Christ for the filthy lucre of his Daily Wire boss, Ben Shapiro? That doesn’t seem to be the case. In Unholy Trinity, he concedes that, by relying on scripture, Christians lost the gay-marriage debate: “We were never going to convince the secular world to respect marriage by quoting Corinthians or throwing barbs from Leviticus.
On programs like The Daily Show, Da Ali G Show, and Penn and Teller’s Bullshit, the Christian right was a regular target for mockery. The Daily Show’s 2004 segment “Queer and Present Danger” jokingly interviewed straight couples “victimized” by the long celebratory lines at the San Francisco city clerk’s office.
Walsh is obviously not engaging in good-faith inquiry, yet the movie spends a solid third or so of its runtime in these conversations. Why bother? For the movie’s implied audiences, these scenes serve two different functions. For the fundamentalists who find the whole idea of gender roughly as absurd as most of us find the claim that biblical patriarchs lived to the age of 900, these are laugh lines.
“I’m done asking questions,” Walsh says 78 minutes into the 95-minute runtime. Then he picks up a metal folding chair and hurls it against the bulletin board on which he’s pinned pieces of source material, including pictures of his trans subjects. This is where the film changes tone, from faux inquiry to what I saw as an incitement to violence.
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