What Are Women?

Video Description

Watch this video ad-free on Nebula: https://nebula.tv/videos/lilyalexandre-what-are-women --- The anti-trans movement says the left can’t define “woman”. But should we even try to? --- Patreon: https://patreon.com/lily_lxndr Twitter: https://twitter.com/lily_lxndr Letterboxd: https://letterboxd.com/lily_lxndr Instagram: https://instagram.com/lily_lxndr --- Co-produced by Vic Mongiovi Music by Patricia Taxxon: https://patriciataxxon.bandcamp.com/album/crocus 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 --- Further viewing: "The Alt-Right Playbook: Never Play Defense" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmVkJvieaOA "TERFs Are Wrong About Biological Sex" https://youtu.be/zRQHZcU9ZqU Clips from: PragerU: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJQ3z0mXj8A Tucker Carlson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I3Jmv0vZvJ4 USA Today: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWtGzJxiONU Institute of Art and Ideas: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nfw_ICIrJYA Sydney Watson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oP_vN7xUZ7Q Gutfeld: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HRl8Ak4Unjc Sources: Science, "Sex equality can explain the unique social structure of hunter-gatherer bands": https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.aaa5139 Cambridge Archaeological Journal, "Thinking Gender Differently: New Approaches to Identity Difference in the Central European Neolithic": https://eprints.whiterose.ac.uk/152524/3/thinking_gender_differently_new_approaches_to_identity_difference_in_the_central_european_neolithic.pdf 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/feminism-trans/ --- 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