I sometimes wonder what future generations will make of the modern West here in the early decades of the 21st century. I sometimes wonder what they will think of us when they discover that one of the defining questions of our age is also one of the most straightforward: What is a woman? Yet an answer to that question seems to be elusive, opaque, and fraught with peril. The “wrong” answer to that question can identify you as a dogmatist or a bigot. The “wrong” answer to that question can cause you to be alienated from your family, fired from your job, or cast out of polite society altogether.