Some Contemporary Feminists Have Accused Second-Wave Feminists of Being Essentialists

Some contemporary feminists have accused second-wave feminists of being essentialists. They say that women's groups, slogans like "I am woman, hear me roar," and quotes like Germaine Greer's "I do think women could make politics irrelevant by a kind of spontaneous cooperative action" repeat the essentialist logic that created patriarchy in the first place. How are these things essentialist?

A) They pay too much attention to sexual orientation and to transsexuals.
B) They fail to address the lingering traces of inequality that still exist.
C) They tell women to adopt the instrumental role.
D) They treat gender as an unambiguous two-category system.
E) They focus on the social construction of gender roles.