In the video below, Bill Kristol interviews Christina Hoff Sommers, a self-described "moderate feminist," former college professor, and now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. She is a critic of the radicalization of feminism over the last few decades. I first gained knowledge of her (and the commotion she stirred up) when she published her first book, Who Stole Feminism?: How Women Have Betrayed Women (1995). Since then she has written other books including The War Against Boys (2001) and Freedom Feminism (2013). She currently hosts a weekly YouTube series, The Factual Feminist, in which she addresses feminist myths in short five minute segments. If you watch the interview, be sure not to miss the segment on "The War Against Boys" at the 42:29 - 49:09 spot)
On the notion that gender is a total social construction, Sommers argues for the reality of masculinity and femininity. She responds to a Kristol question saying: (my emphases)
It’s [gender] obviously a complicated mix of biology and culture, but, you know, there’s no society in the entire anthropological record where you find the men are the nurturers and the women are the, you know, soldiers. They don’t exist.
Again and again, we see that it’s real. There’s something, femininity and masculinity are real and most people, not all, but most people, many of the stereotypes are true. That women do tend to be more nurturing and risk-adverse and have usually a richer emotional vocabulary, and men tend to be a little less explicit about their emotions, emotionally flattened – we’ll say, stoical to be nice. More stoical, more competitive and they do engage in a lot of risky behavior, for better or worse. Men tend to show up at the extremes of success and failure more than women because they are sometimes more – single-minded in the pursuit of, more obsessive pursuits – more likely to do that than women.