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'''Biological essentialism''' is the claim that | '''Biological essentialism''' is the claim that biological instincts cannot be overridden or are too hard to override and therefore activism to change the way most people naturally behave, on a timescale shorter than thousands of years of human evolution, is a waste of time and potentially dangerous due to the increasingly draconian means that are expected to be used to enforce the change. | ||
A common counterargument to such fears is that a ''middle ground'' can more realistically be reached, since humans ''are'' malleable to some extent. | A common counterargument to such fears is that a ''middle ground'' can more realistically be reached, since humans ''are'' malleable to some extent. | ||
Proponents of biological or gender essentialism often have a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] streak. | Proponents of biological or gender essentialism often have a [[Libertarianism|libertarian]] streak. | ||
Biological essentialism has gained popularity in the [[incelosphere]] in the late 2010s. | Biological essentialism has gained popularity in the [[incelosphere]] in the late 2010s. | ||
Some biological essentialists [[blackpill|blackpillers]] promote fatalism, believing that it is impossible to change female nature, so we should just "give up". Other biological essentialist blackpillers like [[Jordan Peterson]] say one should embrace natural human behavior and use the resulting hierarchies to enforce monogamy to solve or at least mitigate the incel problem. | Some biological essentialists [[blackpill|blackpillers]] promote fatalism, believing that it is impossible to change female nature ('''gender essentialism'''), so we should just "give up". Other biological essentialist blackpillers like [[Jordan Peterson]] say one should embrace natural human behavior and use the resulting hierarchies to enforce monogamy to solve or at least mitigate the incel problem. | ||
==See Also== | ==See Also== | ||