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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I gotta say, I'm surprised/disappointed by the anger/vitriol here.  It seems that women just automatically "hate" a woman who has privilege and did well.  There is pure jealousy coming out here, masked as middle class anger - "she just doesn't understand how expensive daycare is, blah blah blah".  It's like people think they can have no connection or understanding with someone in a certain income tax bracket, like she is incapable of understanding your basic human experience and vice versa.  So many of you clearly just want to see her suffer for no good reason.  This is especially sad because she should be a role model for women.  There is nothing inherently annoying about her - she's not Gwyneth Paltrow talking down to people. She worked incredibly hard to get to the top of a business, in a male-dominated world, and she wrote a book trying to help other women up and give advice, and she's known as being a mentor and a kind person.  Yet, everyone on here "hates" her because she's so annoying and so out-of-touch.  Who should we be listening to for advice then, Kim Kardashian?  Or just losers?  Poor people only? [/quote]

+100000000000 PP! I feel exactly the same way as you do about this thread. I don't think men hated on Donald Trump for being Donald the way women hated on Hilary Clinton for being Hilary during the last election. The same way guys don't hate on Donald for his privilege the way women hate on Sheryl for hers. Very sad. [/quote]

I'm a successful female professional and a mother. I consider myself very privileged: came from a stable family, highly educated, so far in good health. I have an awesome husband and very few complaints about life personally. However, I see injustice around me constantly and it makes me sick. I see people being constantly told to pull themselves by the bootstraps when their bootstraps are tearing from all the pulling.  The Clinton and Sandberg narratives are being shoved down women's throats to the point that anyone having a differing opinion is called a traitor to the female gender, and there is no space for discussion. Well excuse me for not voting* or reading with my vagina. (*Disclaimer: of course I voted Clinton given the options!)

Please stop character assassinating anyone with a different opinion, and then perhaps these beacons of women's empowerment will be better received by those who, yes, do find $2300 a month in daycare to be too expensive.[/quote]

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