I don't shy away from some very difficult issues that would be hard for a junior person to bring up. There are some mine fields that I am willing to step into that I wouldn't expect a junior woman to do. For example, there has been a tendency to shy away from talking about the differences that women might bring to technology. But that's not entirely true. I agree that technology is gender neutral only in the sense that anybody can do it.
Technology is available to anyone.
But some would say that because technology is gender neutral, it doesn't make any difference who does it. Here I disagree. An individual person's background and interests always influence the outcome. We bring different things to what we do - and these differences make what we do better. To have diverse input is critical to the success of our discipline.