Referencing a distribution of abilities is making a reference to abilities. Your statement was categorical. "This is a statement of women's choices, not their

Referencing a distribution of abilities is making a reference to abilities. Your statement was categorical. "This is a statement of women's choices, not their ability". Yet it was a statement about distributions of ability. That's a statement that references ability. You didn't say "the memo refers to variance of abilities". You stated that it did not reference ability. That statement is simply not true.