  The above procedure, however, can be problematic. This becomes obvious when moving to the social world. For example, aiming to discover women’s nature following the above procedure in patriarchal societies (like ours, according to MacKinnon) is highly problematic. MacKinnon believes that it is an observed regularity in our societies that women are submissive and object-like (and men are women’s objectifiers). This means that one might be led to the belief that women are by their nature submissive and object-like. (It should be noted here that MacKinnon, and also Haslanger and Langton following her, use ‘men’ and ‘women’ to refer to gender categories, which are socially (not biologically) defined: one is a woman or a man by virtue of one’s social position; see the entry on  feminist perspectives on sex and gender.)  However, the belief that women are naturally submissive and object-like is false, since women have been made to be like that.