Personality and Gender

So, I happen to be a huge fan of a blog called Phillolzophy, which is a site that is written by two women in their mid twenties with philosophy degrees. They try to make philosophy fun and entertaining, and have often succeeded (Some successes include describing reality TV shows certain philosophers would be on, to  a platonic view of orgasms). They just recently posted up an article  on the confusion of personality traits and gender. The example the author gives is when she was at college, her professor chastised her for not being more outspoken in class. The professor then explained that this occurred because women were taught to be small and nonthreatening in public areas. The authors response to this comment went a little something like this:

The author argues that just because someone didn't like to talk in class did not mean that it was because of a forced gender role. She then goes on a tirade about how feminism is sometimes taken way to seriously by a few people. She acknowledges that feminism is good, but has the potential to be over-applied in society (much like any concept that has the potential to be dogmatized can). Overall I agree with her. I think she might be a bit too harsh on feminism, but it is still a good read, and one really should take a look at other posts on the site. They are really cool authors.