But speaker awards and elim wins only address qustions of attitudes and identity at the margins. Which is to say not much, althogh the questions of identity and attitude are definitely at the margins. Of course, all women are different from all other women. Some of us are fascinated by military sub-systems and kill ratios. Some of us read Derrida for fun.
Men are different from other men, too.
Gender is a difficult subject to think about. If they wanted to make it, they could do what I did. I was anything but a role model. I was rude and arrogant and defensive and unapproachable. I also considered myself to be a feminist, thinking that really, there was only one feminism.