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tabby wrote

An example of sex/gender essentialism might be, "Men are tough." There's nothing inherently wrong with toughness, but it tells men that they should be tough rather than, say, sensitive or vulnerable, and it suggests that men who aren't tough are lesser men. Although there are commonalities between many men, there are as many different ways to be a man as there are individual men. There is no "essential man".

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