But it turned out he was just experimenting with putting a woman in his example. Growing up, loving illustrated children's books, so many of the protagonists to identify with were boys. The ratio of women or girl main characters to men or boys seems to have been the same as that for children's books. I think an easy test for this is how rattled you are depending on whether a boy or girl or woman or man starts crying. A more sustained test of this is to read Catherine Yee's revision of George Chrystal's older translation of Marcus Aurelius's Meditations.