Confronting: 'In your face!' Abrupt. Shocking.
grievances against heirarchy = sullen toward men, man-hater, angry because it's a mans world.
'Token' = you're the man they've got when they don't need a man at all. So they tolerate you ... but don't necessarily like you. (Like the black man at work who is there because there's a government policy of including blacks. Not because work likes black men. So he's the token black man.)
"Whipper Snapper" = young fellow, cheeky young fellow. Friendly 'insult' of older person to younger one.