Sandberg wasn't talking about low-wage workers, either. These are all highly-educated professionals in white collar jobs aiming their messages at the women they imagine to be their (future) peers. That is a problem, but it's not unique to Brooks.

It should go without saying, but legal academia at that level is insanely competitive. Suggesting that this woman doesn't really understand hard work the way she would if she worked in the private sector is asinine. She's obviously worked hard to get where she is.

From her faculty profile:

Anger management would be very helpful for you. Seriously.

"Since she has tenure already, the rest of the time [when not teaching] she can do diddly squat if she wants to. There are no requirements for publishing x papers a year or getting y research grants."

By what metric do you measure cushy? Have you ever been employed as an instructor or faculty member?

You come off as super foul in every single one of your replies. Take it down a couple notches.

A lot of people have been calling bullshit on this book for the past year, including bell hooks and Kate Losse. I don't want to assume you don't know this, but this just reinforces the many problems with that book, namely that if women don't take the freedom to think for themselves and relax from time to time, they're…

No. But I don't think you understand all of the things that an academic does. Her job probably requires her to do a certain amount of public service (media, volunteering, going to other things in the community), academic service (serving on various committees on campus, serving on dissertation and thesis committees…

First of all, the world of law professors at an Ivy differs markedly from the way that most professors at Big State School in a non-professional department see themselves and spend their time.

Your comment that academic work is "not overwhelming" is a pretty common lay assumption, but is nevertheless incredibly off base and makes me wonder how many academics you actually know.

No. Hating your work and loving your work aren't the only two options. Enjoying your job does not require enjoying every moment and every task, and being able and willing to give up all of your free time and some of your sleep to do more work. No one is required to define themselves by their job.

Yeah...easy to leave at 5 when you're in the C-suite.
She also talks about how, as soon as she is finished reading her kids a bedtime story, she rushes back to her laptop to continue working.
She also talked about hovering over the toilet with morning sickness while sending emails on her phone.
She also talked about how…

You can very much love your work overall, and still feel overwhelmed/bored/unhappy with parts of it. Every job includes some percentage of bullshit. It's unavoidable. You can work to minimize the bullshit, but you can never eliminate it completely.

THANK GOD someone called this shit out.
Lean In benefits the corporate structure...and no one else.
Corporate feminism is bullshit, y'all.

After a particularly brutal year, complete with being in the office working on both the 4th of July and Christmas Eve, I decided that I simply was not available outside of work hours unless something had LITERALLY blown up.

But then we can't whitewash entrenched corporate sexism so that Zuckerberg gives us a bigger initial stock option!

The backlash against the toxic, antifeminist hokum that is Lean In cannot come fast enough. It's fucking Orwellian.

The funniest part about this photo is the photographer's willingness to have her name associated with it. I supposed I would take that photo if you paid me but I wouldn't want my name anywhere near it.

How about we all just do whatever the f*** we want and stop worrying about whether our choices and lifestyles align with the latest privileged writer's trend piece on All the Things Women Are Doing Wrong.