What Are Women?

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The anti-trans movement says the left can’t define “woman”. But should we even try to?

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Co-produced by Vic Mongiovi
Music by Patricia Taxxon: https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/a...
Sound effects by Epidemic Sound: http://epidemicsound.com/creator
Stock footage provided by tour3d, alexanderguelph, and NK1twelve, from Pond5
Special thanks to Carmilla Mary Morrell for feedback

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"TERFs Are Wrong About Biological Sex"    • TERFs Are Wrong About Biological Sex  

Clips from:
PragerU:    • What Is a Woman? | Man on the Street  
Tucker Carlson:    • Tucker: What is a woman?  
USA Today:    • Sen. Blackburn asks Supreme Court nom...  
Institute of Art and Ideas:    • What is a Woman? | Julia Long, Heathe...  
Sydney Watson:    • Aaaand the erasure of women continues  
Gutfeld:    • ‘Gutfeld!’ slams Judge Jackson for no...  

Sources:

Science, "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/s...
Cambridge Archaeological Journal, "Thinking Gender Differently: New Approaches to Identity
Difference in the Central European Neolithic": https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/15252...
Friedrich Engels - The Origin of the Family, Private Property, and the State
Monique Wittig - The Straight Mind
Maria Lugones - The Coloniality of Gender
Maria Lugones - Heterosexualism and the Modern/Colonial Gender System
Oyeronke Oyewumi - The Invention of Women: Making an African Sense of Western Gender Discourses
Paula Gunn Allen - The Sacred Hoop: Recovering the Feminine in American Indian Traditions
Andrea Long Chu - Females
Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy, "Feminist Perspectives on Trans Issues": https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/fe...

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Table of contents
0:00 “Define woman”
3:00 Where gender came from
16:07 Gender reform or gender abolition?
22:45 Why define women?
30:57 But what are women?
38:16 The state of discourse
40:35 Thanks & Patreon credits