[JohnHaugeland]

I wish you would stop saying "nobody is saying (the thing everyone is actually literally saying)".

Yes, the post saying "I need a woman for a role mode" is limiting one's role models by gender.

[thelibrarian]

No it is not. It is a woman for a rolemodel, not a woman for my one and only and forever rolemodel.

Having a woman for a rolemodel does not exclude also having a man as a rolemodel.

[JohnHaugeland]

A limitation is still a limitation even if it isn't universal.

[king_jester]

If you really believed this, then you would agree that this is true for women in STEM in that the field is heavily stacked with men. It is totally justified to counteract such an implicit limitation in the field by someone putting in extra effort to meet women in STEM.