b. Men are naturally more aggressive than women.

All humans beings have the capacity to be aggressive. We need this ability in order to motivate ourselves. However, when talking about male and female aggression what we are talking about is the socially-inappropriate use of aggression, rather than aggression itself.

While it is true that men (and young men in particular) tend to use violence as a means of problem-solving more readily in our society, this is a result of cultural factors and expectations.

• In basic terms, men have more freedom than women in our society (their behaviour is less tightly controlled by others) and aggressive behaviour, up to a point, is more socially-acceptable or encouraged in men than women.

• However, the fact that not all men are overly aggressive and that many women have shown themselves capable of extreme forms of violence demonstrates that a tendency to socially-inappropriate aggression is not something that people are born with.
  

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