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I think Christy's point is that when you met women who were goal-oriented, driven, and extremely ambitious in the business world, your assumption about them was that they were "trying to be men." This assumption is one that is based on patriarchal ideas about gender - that men are ambitious and highly driven while women are caring and have low goal-motivation. However, many, many individuals do not fall into these definitions of gender. Christy and the previous poster were annoyed by your assumption that simply by having these characteristics, the women you encountered were "trying to be men," when in fact, they were most likely simply acting in accordance with their own high-focus, high-motivation personalities. That you would say that such women were "trying to be men" reveals that you do, though perhaps unconsciously, subscribe to at least some of the patriarchal gender norms that many women have fought very hard to overcome. This is not to condemn you - we all must realize our own assumptions about the world before we can seek to truly change anything. God bless you in all your future attempts to lift up and recognize the women (and men) who are doing God's work in the world.