Bloodless Coup

Replace "in medical school and residency"

With "when I was working on my PhD," and "summer camp/athletic" with "high school/girlie" and Jay could be writing about my experience:

[T]here were years of my life when I would have agreed with Valen about the menace of being with women in a group. For me the sorority house was a summer camp bunk, where I spent four years as the misfit fat kid with no athletic inclinations, a ridiculously adult vocabulary and a remarkable lack of social skills. At least once a summer some girl would pretend to be my friend only to turn around and use the information she'd gained to taunt me. It's not surprising that in high school and college I had mostly male friends. There were girls in the mixed groups I hung out with, and I actually had close relationships with my roommates my last two years of college, but I would no more have joined a sorority than I would have jumped off the roof, even if there had been sororities at my college. There was a Women's Center, but I never once set foot in the place. My advisors and mentors were men; my professional role models were men. I didn't identify as a feminist, in large part because I couldn't identify with other women.

That all changed for me in medical school and residency, when I realized that my experiences were deeply different than those of my male classmates, and I saw the inequities in the ways women were treated as patients and as professionals. I began to identify as feminist during my third-year OB/Gyn rotation, and began to seek out women as mentors and friends during residency.

While this is likely true for many women, I'm betting for nerd girls, it's particularly relevant.