יוסף בן שבע עשרה שנה כו’ והוא נער כו’ (לז:ב) – “Yosef, at the
age of seventeen years… But he was a youth etc.” (Vayeishev
37:2). Rashi cites the Medrash (בר”ר פ”ד ז’) that Yosef would
practice “youth-like” activities, including beautifying his eyes
and fixing his hair. Rav Schwab has a very nice explanation of
Yosef’s behavior in his sefer. We will attempt another.  The
Alshich HaKadosh in Parshas Vayishlach (34:1) writes a very
elemental idea. ”ותצא דינה בת לאה כו’” – “Dina, the daughter of
Leah, went out etc.” Rashi says that the passuk specifically
calls her the daughter of Leah and not of Yaakov Avinu, for Leah
also was a יצאנית – a woman who “goes out,” and “like mother
like daughter.” The Alshich asks, however, that the cases are
not similar. Leah went out to greet her husband, which
presumably should not categorize her derogatorily as a יצאנית,
unlike Dina who seems to unfortunately fit the bill. Which
intrinsically begs the question of how Dina could be a יצאנית, a
deprecating description for a girl o