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Patriarchy is based on ____, which is the belief that women are innately (that is, by nature) inferior to men: less intelligent, less rational, less courageous, and so forth.

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____individuals believe that traditional gender roles- which cast men as decision-makers and women as dutiful followers-are right and natural because men's innate superiority dictates that they should be in charge, not only in the family but in business, politics, and all other important social institutions.

In order to oppose sexism, many feminist thinkers differentiate between our sex, which is our biological makeup as female or male (for example, our sex organs and body chemistry), and our ____, which is our cultural programming as feminine or masculine (for example, our behaving as “sweet little things” or “macho-men”).

Feminism argues that while we may be born female or male, we are not born feminine or masculine. Rather, it is ____that decides which behaviors are considered feminine, and therefore appropriate only to females, and which behaviors are considered masculine, and therefore appropriate only to males.

Simone de Beauvoir argues in her groundbreaking book, The Second Sex (1949), “One is not born a ____; one becomes one.”