What she said: Is it any wonder that so many high-achieving young women, despite all the happy talk about their academic success, find themselves in the early

What she said: Is it any wonder that so many high-achieving young women, despite all the happy talk about their academic success, find themselves in the early stages of their careers in chronic uncertainty or anxiety about their prospects for an emotionally fulfilled private life? When an educated culture routinely denigrates masculinity and manhood, then women will be perpetually stuck with boys, who have no incentive to mature or to honor their commitments. And without strong men as models to either embrace or (for dissident lesbians) to resist, women will never attain a centered and profound sense of themselves as women. Emphasis added: Definition of model: 1. a three-dimensional representation of a person or thing or of a proposed structure, typically on a smaller scale than the original. "a model of St. Paul's Cathedral" 2. a system or thing used as an example to follow or imitate. I believe she is referring to the first usage of model and emphasizing how she needs a strong men. That is she wants a well defined instance of class men so that instances of men and instances of women can have well defined interoperable and efficient interfaces. Without such well defined interfaces, instances of women are not sure what instances of men respond to or what inputs they accept and not sure what their output is. Reflection is not implemented. You believe she is saying class men is putative parent class of class women which can smash patriarchy by choosing a different protype. I don't believe that is what she is saying.