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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Good Lord.

Young lawyers, and especially the women (sorry, it’s true), are absolutely the worst. You all are so embarrassingly, cringe-inducingly weak. Have a little pride. You’ve swallowed this identity politics, victim status as the highest virtue mentality for so long that you are utterly unable to function in reality. OP, you need to get a grip. You’re an adult. Act like it.

I’m a law firm partner. 8 in 10 of the female associates in our group cannot receive mundane corrective comments on a draft memo without (a) bursting into tears or (b) requesting a meeting with partners, HR, DEI reps, and whoever else they can dream up to discuss their feelings and the “tone” of the office.

You are an embarrassment. [/quote]

I’m also a law firm party and in my experience it is 100% the young men who can’t take the criticism. Their self identity is very wound up in the notion that they are excellent writers and excellent advocates with fine analytical skills and if you think there is room for improvement you clearly are just wrong.  The young women all have a sense of humor about their fallibility and just want to improve (or just want to get home for the evening).  
Some of the young guys are fine with criticism, but of those who can’t take it, it is 100% male.   
Women are steeped in criticism from birth — we really don’t have a hard time with it, and often use it preemptively (ask me about my hair/butt/shoes/exercise habits/diet/parenting skills).  [/quote]

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