I like the author's attitude: "Lets do this thing, and empower women, fight for gender equality, and change the world, but lets be realistic about it. Lets own

I like the author's attitude: "Lets do this thing, and empower women, fight for gender equality, and change the world, but lets be realistic about it. Lets own the problems on our side and fix them." In my experience, anything that begins with "Define X as the agent of good" falls into the trap of "X does $BADTHING therefore $BADTHING must be good", and credibility is lost (it also works in reverse, "define X as the agent of bad..."). On the other hand "Define $IDEAL as the goal" has a tendency to look for good from all directions, and address the bad wherever it comes from.