Multiple perspectives

Yes we need to have an endless dialogue about “what is a woman” because we still after all these thousands of years just can’t seem to figure it out.

Tate Modern has become engulfed in a transgender rights row after promoting a short film about the definition of “woman”.

The gallery screened What is a Woman? by Norwegian director Marin Håskjold on Friday evening as part of an evening focused on female artists.

In it, a trans woman is drawn into an argument in a women’s changing room over whether she should be there.

Over whether he should be there. These “arguments” and “discussions” and “debates” are always distorted from the outset by the fact that the trans “woman” is referred to as a she.

The Tate rejected the activists’ criticisms, telling The Telegraph: “We have chosen to screen a work that does not propose one perspective on the question of womanhood, but instead considers multiple perspectives.”

How fascinating. When will the Tate screen a work that proposes multiple perspectives on the question of manhood? Why is it only women who have to keep being subjected to “discussion” of what a woman is while what a man is continues to be taken for granted?

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