The first part of her essay reminds me of Paul Graham's "Keep Your Identity Small". Tying your identity to any group predisposes you to us-vs-them thinking. Identifying as "a maker" might seem particularly distasteful because maker vs. non-maker is a decent proxy for rich vs poor.

As a teenager, I read Ayn Rand on how any work that needed to be done day after day was meaningless, and that only creating new things was a worthwhile endeavor.

People have happily informed me that I am a maker because I use phrases like "design learning experiences," which is mistaking what I do (teaching) for what I’m actually trying to help elicit (learning).

This is sort of interesting. A man who makes a toaster creates a long-lived artifact used to create an ephemeral product (toast). She creates an ephemeral product used to create a long-lived artifact (education). I intended to argue that she is a maker in that Randian sense, but I guess I understand her point now.

A quote often attributed to Gloria Steinem says: “We’ve begun to raise daughters more like sons... but few have the courage to raise our sons more like our daughters.”

This seems pretty fundamental. Supply and demand seem to currently favor "sons" over "daughters", and capitalism preferentially fulfills the wants of the economically valuable. So of course we are more likely to raise our daughters like sons than sons like daughters. We want the best for our children.