Women as Namers

What is the role of women in relationship to men with regards to love and naming? The Matrix provides some interesting insights.

The act of love requires a consequent renaming because of the new social person that is created in the relationship between a man and a woman.

Trinity's love for and recognition of who Neo was enabled him to embrace his identity. At the beginning, it was Trinity who found Neo and convinced him to join the resistance. It was Trinity who recognized that Neo was the One and whose love brought him back to life.

This shows women not as the passive beloved, but as active receivers of love. Through their recognition of particular men as worth receiving love from (which involves active trust), women affirm the existence of and the manly self-exertion of (see Harvey Mansfield's Manliness) these men. It is only in his relationship to Trinity that Mr. Anderson is Neo. Their love engenders Neo's embrace of who he is and the power associated with his new role and name.