What's happening?

For many years, feministsPeople who call for women's rights with the aim of achieving gender equality. There are different ideas within the feminist movement. have argued that differences between men and women are caused by social factors, not biology.

Now some thinkers say that we have got it all wrong. They call themselves "reactionary feminists".

Men, they say, are biologically more aggressiveLikely to attack or be angry. , while women are biologically more protective.

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True feminism, they argue, should stress that women are different to men.

But critics say this is just bad science. It means drawing a line between "natural" and "social" that does not really exist.

There is no way of proving that human beings have "natural" differences that are not about the societies we live in - because almost no humans live alone and not in a society.

Yes! Men and women really are different. We should not ignore that.

No! Biology does not really matter. Some men and women act in different ways because they have been brought up to do so. We should all be free of these expectations about how we behave.