I'd like to tell Sheryl Sandberg to STFU.

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Anonymous wrote:I'm in the minority, but I like her.

Me too - and I've read her book. I'm not super wealthy, but I enjoyed her thoughts and experiences.

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Meh. Not a fan.

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Humility goes a long way in my mind and those who aren't don't mean anything to me.

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I thought lean in was completely out of touch. I'm sorry she lost her husband but I'm not reading another one of her books.

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She has been on every TV news magazine and morning show this week. I hated her lean in stuff, although she admits she didn't really get how impractical and insulting that was for many women and especially single mothers (like me) until now that she is widowed. Still, there is something shrill and annoying about her. Not a fan.

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Anonymous wrote:I thought lean in was completely out of touch. I'm sorry she lost her husband but I'm not reading another one of her books.

I hate that term 'lean in'. Like most women are not working hard enough! Gimma a break.

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I'm sorry that her DH died, but I still have the urge to punch her in the face.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I thought lean in was completely out of touch. I'm sorry she lost her husband but I'm not reading another one of her books.

I hate that term 'lean in'. Like most women are not working hard enough! Gimma a break.

Exactly! Like working, taking care of aging parents, small kids, my own health issues etc isn't enough.

“I don’t want to lean in: I want to lie down.” -- Ali Wong

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Anonymous wrote:I'm sorry that her DH died, but I still have the urge to punch her in the face.

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Anonymous wrote:Have you actually read her stuff?

I am 50/50 with liking what she has to say and not liking what she has to say.

I read "Lean in"... I plan to read her new book... does she have "other stuff"?

She has already admitted "Lean in" was totally tone deaf and it assumed that women had the same support system she had.

I wanted to highlight sections and leave notes on why it was tone deaf and send it to her .... but why, it literally takes your H dying to get it.

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Wow OP. I feel the same way about her. She acts like she's had it hard. Well, her father was a doctor and they grew up very well off. She has no idea what most of us go through trying to pay for college when we're middle class (parents make "too much" for aid but can't pay a dime to help) and we all don't have fancy jobs.

Her telling women to "lean in" is so full of doo doo. I feel bad her DH died, but she acts like she's the only one in the world who has experienced loss.

All I can saw is "EWW: and I thought I was the only one. You made my day OP.

[Anonymous]

If I leaned in any more I would be planking. If she really wanted to help women, should would help some women in her company to succeed without leaning in so hard (like white guys do).

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Anonymous wrote:She has been on every TV news magazine and morning show this week. I hated her lean in stuff, although she admits she didn't really get how impractical and insulting that was for many women and especially single mothers (like me) until now that she is widowed. Still, there is something shrill and annoying about her. Not a fan.

That touches on what annoys me about her. She writes about where she is in life as if either she is the first person to do this and/or there is no other way. Now that she is experiencing something new and very different for the first time, she gets how off she was before, and gosh! life can be different for different people depending on so many factors. She really came across as obtuse in her first book (kind of like an overexcited first time mom comes across to a grandmother of 12).

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+ 1

yup yup yup

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Anonymous wrote:Wow OP. I feel the same way about her. She acts like she's had it hard. Well, her father was a doctor and they grew up very well off. She has no idea what most of us go through trying to pay for college when we're middle class (parents make "too much" for aid but can't pay a dime to help) and we all don't have fancy jobs.

Her telling women to "lean in" is so full of doo doo. I feel bad her DH died, but she acts like she's the only one in the world who has experienced loss.

All I can saw is "EWW: and I thought I was the only one. You made my day OP.

Didn't she have an amazing mentor who basically gave her the golden kiss and then everything was handed to her? Of course she had to work hard, but some of us never even get that "in" and are stuck with never getting a chance or battling for every position, promotion, etc.