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Elon Musk notes gender ideology contradiction in response to ‘What Is A Woman?’ film review

June 12, 2022 | | Print Article

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man and a self-described free speech absolutist, may have melted more than a few snowflakes Saturday when he dared question an inherent quandary in transgender ideology.

A considerable amount of the furor surrounding the much ballyhooed new documentary “What is a Woman?” created by The Daily Wire’s Matt Walsh evidently stemmed from pointing out the logical inconsistencies of the radical extremists who promote and encourage the mutilation of children far too young to consent to any life-altering decisions. Considering the inherent risks of gender reassignment surgery and puberty blockers, Walsh endeavored to get a clear and concise explanation as to what males suffering from gender dysphoria were actually “transitioning” to.

The podcaster was continually met with arguments of feelings rather than facts from so-called academics and Musk was unwilling to stand idly by while logical inconsistencies went unexplained.

“We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option,” Musk wrote in response to a post shared from liberal journalist Matt Taibbi.

Much as Walsh had endeavored to do in his documentary, the billionaire posited, “Perhaps someone wiser than me can explain this dichotomy.”

The entrepreneur appeared to be seeking actual, definable truth, but as the film proved, the radicals on the left who ascribe to the Marxist ideology of gender theory are “really uncomfortable with that language.”

“You keep invoking the word truth, which is condescending and rude,” said Dr. Patrick Grzanka, a professor of Women, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at the University of Tennessee.

In response to Musk’s tweet, Walsh shared how this was his overall experience in attempting to resolve these inconsistencies of thought. “I talked to the ‘wise’ in the film, ” he wrote, “and it turns out they can’t explain anything at all,”

Similar to Walsh who has received backlash as intense as death threats for daring to question the woke ideologues, Musk was pressed on why it mattered so much to him what other people did with their bodies.

What is overlooked by detractors of Musk’s basic question, which by no means suggest his stance on the issue, is that the biggest concern throughout the documentary was not what adults were permitted to do with their lives, but what adults were forcing upon children through affirmations of their confusion.

As Taibbi captioned when sharing his post that Musk replied to, “I wonder if we’re institutionalizing stereotypes about gender in the same way academics have tried to institutionalize stereotypes about how ‘hard work,’ ‘being polite,’ ‘punctuality’ and the ‘written word’ are ‘white culture.'”

All of these woke positions are hurtling society toward its degradation at an exponentially increasing rate. Meanwhile, as the backlash rolled in for the outspoken billionaire, he presented an actual opinion on the topic suggesting, “It is a better world if we are all less judgy.”

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7 thoughts on “Elon Musk notes gender ideology contradiction in response to ‘What Is A Woman?’ film review”

  1. My biggest concern throughout the documentary was not what adults were permitted to do with their body/lives, but what adults are forcing upon children through toying of their confusion, playing GOD with children’s emotions during their formative years, fast forward 5 to 10 years. What kind of projection are you willing to staple; of the now adults? A fad gone wrong.

    Then who gets the blame? Or what kind of society are you trying to create. Whats your end game?

  2. These woke POS’s will not be satisfied until we are all surgically rendered neutral….

  3. Rational thought is a product of the Modern era. PostModernism is Anti-Modern, so counters rational thought.

    You can’t win against PostModernism using rationality. But they love it when you waste your time trying.

    1. Your first paragraph is historically wrong.

      Your second overlooks what people like me are really doing when we fight postmodernism rationally. You can’t destroy an anti-rational ideology by reasoning it to death, but you can get people to see they’ve committed themselves to things they can’t accept by walking them through it. Even postmodernism, for all its attacks on reason, has a logic of its own it has to follow.

  4. So, Musk wrote:

    We are simultaneously being told that gender differences do not exist and that genders are so profoundly different that irreversible surgery is the only option.

    I doubt that’s what’s going on in their minds (is that the right word anymore?). I argued elsewhere that “their” idea of “woman” places a lot of stress on passivity. That passivity fixation’s part of why they think abortion (and even infanticide, among the most extreme leftists) is necessary to empower women.

    To (some) leftists, sexual differences are real, but unimportant. For one thing, the body itself is meaningless apart from the mind’s whims, self-concept, and interpretation of it. That’s what happens when, like Descartes (whom they tend to follow, despite denying it), you throw out teleology as a real feature of the world and stuff it all into the mind. This means sexual differences are unintelligible (they exist for basically no reason). So, all else being equal, so we have no obligation to respect them. We can do away with them if we have the desire and ability to do so. But, even if sexual differences don’t exist (I don’t know of anyone who says that, mind you), gender differences are “real.” If only in the sense that they have to do with how the mind works, especially once society’s informed it. Given that we don’t have to respect the body, where the latter conflicts with the mind, the mind gets precedence. And that means, if you think surgery’s necessary to deal with the conflict, you can opt for surgery.

    This doesn’t mean I think they’re being consistent. Throwing away teleology isn’t something you can be consistent about, for example. And insisting on changing the body when, following Rousseau’s views about human nature, it would be easier to change their minds instead, is simply ludicrous.

    Moreover, the whole passivity point I brought up raises its own problems. One of them being, if my analysis is correct, then I can’t be the only one who realizes they see women as passive subjects. At least some of them must be in on that dirty secret, too. It makes every form of feminism, “trans-friendly” or not, a fool’s errand, likely one meant to manipulate women for some man’s selfish gain. And it means some people, possibly a few of the ones Mr. Walsh interviewed, are aware of it, and perhaps were too afraid of admitting they hold to such a demeaning view of women. This is going to get very interesting.

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