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Why does it matter if she's being defensive or not? Honestly, what she's showing us is something that we should all be invested in, in my opinion. I find that it feels quite liberating and refreshing to hear about all the examples of life that Roughgarden provides us with. Whether or not her personal investment in the work goes beyond some idea of "objectivity," I am a firm believer in that the mere concept she is supporting (that of the illusion of gender) is powerful and I find solace in it. I'm a firm believer in the fact that the gender binary creates and perpetuates systems of inequality all over the world, and ours and other societies could use more edgy work like Roughgarden's to start to dismantle the idea of "gender" and "sex" as natural.