I find I resonate with certain aspects of this article, but do have some mixed feelings in certain areas.

I definitely agree that, in the process of establishing ourselves in the workplace, we shouldn’t feel that we have to conform to a certain ideal of ‘ridding ourselves of all things feminine’ in order to fit a mold what people think a leader “should” be. However, I have to question if we should be heavily categorizing things in the first place?

For example, in the workplace, I don’t really view being firm and leader-like as either masculine or feminine. It just seems like something you have to do in order to get anything done Unless, of course, you’re being a complete jerk to people then that’s completely different. I also don’t necessarily correlate passiveness with femininity either, but that could just be my personal definition as opposed to what it actually is.

I mean, I think I get your overall point (the misconception of femininity being correlated with weakness and being inherently inferior to masculinity) but there are certain parts that I feel get lost in translation.