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December 4, 2023 29 mins

When I was growing up I heard this nursery rhyme a lot. It’s an old traditional nursery rhyme about what little boys and little girls are made of.

What the nursery rhyme’s telling us is that boys and girls, and so men and women, are very different to each other.

But today, picking up on Marxist ideology, that there are no individuals and everyone is the same, regardless of our gender. Liberal feminists, in particular, say that there aren’t even any physical differences between men and women.

Radical feminists accept that there are physical differences between men and women but, under what they call the socialisation theory, they say that the way boys and girls are treated growing up has a dramatically negative effect on women. That theory, accepts physical differences but insists that there aren’t any innate psychological differences between men and women. Any differences we observe must be the product of nurture, not nature.

So who’s right? And what does it matter in the context of children’s rights to a mother and a father.

Tag words: Louise Perry; The Case Against the Sexual Revolution; Kary Faust; Stacy Manning; Them Before Us; Lia Thomas; Liberal feminists; Radical feminists; transgender; testosterone; osetrogen; Dr Louann Brizendine; The Female Brain;

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