After a few paragraphs of what amounts to an appeal to authority……herself…..and some private interpretations of her experiences with others, this writer claims: "This experience has heavily informed my testimony of prophets and apostles." That one statement indicates one of the core problems with the Ordain Women movement and all who seek to get their private interpretations adopted by the church as doctrine, which is, they do not understand doctrine. When one's testimony is based in fleshy observations, and biased experiences with flawed humans it really is not a testimony at all. Testimony comes by revelation from a perfect God, though the power of the Holy Ghost, not by self serving interpretations of life.
The writer's whole article falls apart in that her claims and views about the Prophets and Apostles are not spiritually based nor doctrinally informed, but formulated in the flawed reasoning of the mind. Her article brings to light the very reason behind the doctrine Jesus taught: "No prophet is without honor but in his own country" which is the spiritual equivalent of the truth that with
humans, knowledge of…… breeds contempt for. Jesus was not condoning that typical human characteristic, but rather condemning it, and the writer here displays that same flaw in perfect brightness.
The other key that the writer and organizations which hold similar views, like the Ordain Women movement, miss, is that they do not understand what Joseph Smith meant when he taught; "I never told you I was perfect; but there is no error in the revelations which I have taught." They key is when an imperfect human, chosen by God and given keys, speaks the word of God as moved upon by the Holy Spirit it is the same as if God, the perfect God, had spoken it himself. It is not a logical conclusion that because a prophet is imperfect therefore he can never speak the word of a perfect God or teach a perfect doctrine! In fact the Scriptures, understood in their perfect sense, indicate otherwise.
The writer's judgment of conference talks indicates that she has set herself up as truth, replaced God and the Holy Spirit with her private judgments as to who exemplifies kindness and goodness, and then uses that judgment as her witness of truth. That flawed and dangerous form of self deification not only has lead her astray, but informs many apostate movements like the OW.