Matt Walsh: "What Is A Woman?": Africa Edition

I'm not exactly sure what the status of this disagreement is. It's an entirely open-and-shut case... Or, rather: it's a case that was so closed there was no such things as opening it. Or, rather: it's not even a case. It's as if a political faction known for its unshakable commitment to promoting the interests of the third shift as opposed to the first were to suddenly begin insisting that "for" some people, night is actually day. I mean, look: day is when you work, and some people work from 9-7. Also, dawn and twilight are not exactly either night or day--so something something "nonbinary" something. So day and night are socially constructed. I mean, we made up the words, right? And, unlike us, some cultures tend to lump dawn more with night than with day, and twilight more with day than with night. And night on one side of the globe is day on the other. And what about the poles, huh? Besides, everybody has always known that day was really a kind of night and night was a kind of day--that's the way it's always been! You just somehow never noticed that. Bigot.

   There's so little room for disagreement here that basically everyone realizes that it's a mere semantic disagreement. Well, not even that, really. Rather, it's merely a proposal--in the sense of insistence--that we start using words differently. Gender ideologues will often say things that show that they recognize this, but will rarely admit it outright. As is so often the case with the pomo-prog left, they don't really know what they think. To some extent they kinda believe what they're saying is fact, to some extent they're just insisting that we speak their new language. To some extent they're really just saying REEEEEEEEEEE. 

   Some views really are inherently incoherent, so there's no clarifying them. ("Trans")gender ideology survives largely on the basis of unclarity. As do many views. That's not a bug, it's a feature. The term 'gender' in particular acts as a kind of buffer, so elastic that it can dampen the force of most criticisms with skillful equivocation. The term means at least four or five different things, though I've never diligently counted. On the theoretical side, 'socially constructed' does that job, since that term is used in (I did count once) about ten different ways. 

   The Africans don't realize that they're supposed to take this nonsense seriously--or pretend to. We were all just as baffled by this nonsense the first time we heard it. We've just been badgered into pretending it's a serious position. In fact the right response is something more along the lines of: this is absurd. Stop wasting my time with it.