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Message: [QUOTE="bags27, post: 2075336, member: 6761"] I'd say that Mulkey has tunnel-vision. That she got where she is by being ferociously focused. Some people can be that ambitious and still have a broader perspective (sometimes that's called "wisdom"). Some people can't: they are wired to do just one thing (Isaiah Berlin's famous "Hedgehog and Fox" distinction derived from Archilochus: "The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing"). And, while some people are wired to do/know things just one way, other people are simply scared to broaden their thinking. They believe that if they do that, somehow they'll lose the edge they've gained through that single-minded intensity. Freud defined maturity as learning to live with your ambiguities. That means accepting, rather than suppressing, complexity. Is Mulkey hard-wired to know only what she knows, or is she emotionally stunted from knowing more than that? Nature vs. nurture? Either way, she needs people around her to help her get the right message out. Because, one more slip-up of any sort--whether it be on sexual assault or sexual identity or some new thing coming out of left field--and good luck with recruiting.... [/QUOTE]