gender essentialism is soooo funny bc it's like "this is what women are like" and you're like "I've met women and many of them, if not the majority, have not been like that" and it's like "well women SHOULD be like that" and you're like "why should women be like that" and its like "because that's what women are like"
The response a lot of conservatives have is that we have "turned away" from nature because modern society is "degenerate" and "perverts" human nature. So they'll argue that "two sexes" and gender roles are natural but feminism has "poisoned" women's minds. They see it as a sign of social ills that women aren't in the home as "happy" housewives. You'd have to convince them that women were not happy being second class citizens for much of history, but that is a tall order for people who don't believe in facts or logic.
