


We don’t look that different, or act that different, at least not compared to other species. In humans, of course, it is relatively easy to claim that males and females are largely identical save for reproductive functions. On the gripping hand, nothing is ever as simple as extremists in any argument like to pretend. On the other hand, some feminists claim that these biological differences are confined solely to matters of reproduction, and in all other respects males and females are equal.

On the one hand some claim that males and females are biologically different, leading to all sorts of “natural” differences between them. One of the central debates about gender is the question of biological essentialism.
