mother dearest

I read this article (http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704111504576059713528698754.html) entitled " Why Chinese Mothers Are Superior" and I didn't know what to think. I heard the end of an interview with this article's writer, Amy Chua, earlier this week and she was not making the same argument that she seemed to have made in this article. She was backing down a little and kept saying that she didn't mean it as a comment on Chinese mothers as a whole but rather as a comment/reflection on her own parenting style and experiences with that.
As upset as I was with this article, I suppose there is some validity in it, though it definitely is a sweeping generalization (fallacy, ms Scott!). That being said, I feel like the methods mrs chua used are not entirely exclusive to Chinese mothers. I can say that my own mom, a Latin American mother, lived up to chua's policies concerning sleepovers, theatre, instrument practices, grades, and body fat. She upheld these policies until she saw how it hurt us, her daughters. Mrs Chua's children must been either a) really emotionally strong or b) unhappy wight their lives to the point of their mother ignoring their unhappiness.
Anyway; I came here to say that and that I'm a bit disappointed in the writer. She was bold enough to write this, kudos to her, but I'm weary ( is that the word I'm looking for) of how she suddenly seems to be backing down from her argument after getting all this criticism/praise. Now I'm going to make a generalization and say that I feel that women do this/ are more prone to do this than their male counterparts and it really upsets me. We need stronger women in the world. I guess it all goes back to those lines that I'm constantly thinking of in the Heidi Chronicles:
heidi- actually, I was wondering what mothers teach their sons that they never bother to tell their daughters
scoop- what do you mean?
heidi- I mean, why the fuck are you so confident?

And I guess sometimes we forget that mothers are daughters too.
Readers, please comment if you have any thoughts, criticisms, remarks or reflections on this. (no, those words do not mean the same thing.)