Inside the effort to erase the female identity and objective truth: A review of Matt Walsh's What is a Woman?

For years, society has debated the proper role of a woman. Should she vote? Should she own property? Should she be considered a citizen in her own right or merely an extension of her husband? Should she pursue a career or stay at home instead?

On the one hand, there were — and still are — those who wanted to shove women in a box and limit their influence to the confines of the home. And on the other, there were many who, in pursuit of equality, drove women to distort their desires and reject their nature to become more dominant and independent than they needed to be.

But what no one has ever questioned before is whom the feminist debate is all about. No one stopped in the middle of the fight for suffrage, for example, to wonder how to define the word “woman." It was a word that didn’t need defining because its meaning was, until very recently, self-explanatory: A woman is an adult female born with a uterus and breasts — and the only kind of person in the world capable of bearing children.

She is a person who was once denied the right to vote, own property, and represent herself legally for no reason other than the fact that she was an adult female born with a uterus and breasts. She is twice as likely as a male to be the victim of sexual assault and more than four times as likely to be the victim of domestic abuse, simply because she is an adult female with a uterus and breasts. She has been denied educational opportunities, is at risk for massive complications during childbirth, and has had to fight for equal representation in the workforce — all because of her biological sex.