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Sheryl Sandberg thinks women are stupid. The former chief operating officer of Meta and the founder of the nonprofit Lean In, based on the ideas in her 2013 book, Lean In: Women, Work, and the Will to Lead<\/i>, is back in the news<\/span><\/a>, this time (again) voicing her disappointment in the fairer sex\u2019s inability to conquer corporate America.<\/p>\n Sandberg has pivoted from her claims that women aren\u2019t fulfilling the DEI prophecy because of a systemic failure in American corporate culture (patriarchy!), to aiming her sites on the manosphere and pushing back on the \u201ctradwives\u201d movement. In a recent LinkedIn post, Sandberg writes:<\/p>\n The problem with the romanticized vision of the tradwife is that it signals to women that to be a good wife, partner, or mother, you have to do it full-time. <\/i><\/p>\n This gives working women one more burden to carry on top of everything they already manage: guilt. Arianna Huffington says it best: \u201cAs a working mother, it feels like they take the baby out and put the guilt in.\u201d As I told <\/i>People magazine last week, I\u2019m worried that the glamorization of the tradwife trend risks putting that guilt back into women \u2014 guilt that many of us have worked long and hard to shed.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n As a full-time working mom of three (4- and 2-year-olds and a one-month-old that I\u2019m holding while writing this essay) who has never taken a maternity leave and has felt the intense pressure of being a good \u2014 or at least not so bad \u2014 mom, wife, employee, and colleague, Sandberg is partly right about the guilt; she just wants to own all<\/i> of it.<\/p>\n Twenty-first-century feminists emphasize choice the same way Henry Ford offered color options for the Model-T: You can choose any path, as long as it\u2019s the one prescribed by the Lean In feminists.<\/p>\n It\u2019s been over a decade since Sandberg proclaimed that she does not \u201cbelieve two countries run by women would go to war. Full stop,\u201d and she\u2019s still<\/span><\/a> making the case that more women in positions of power and influence would make for a better world \u2014 especially for women. First, it\u2019s obvious by this statement that Sandberg has never seen an episode of The View,<\/i> and second, she\u2019s denying an inherent truism of human nature: that the most cruel and unforgiving people toward women are\u2026other women.<\/p>\n Note to my fellow women: Sheryl Sandberg is angry at you for taking her advice and exercising your agency just as readily as any man\u2019s. The trouble is you chose unwisely in the eyes of the pseudo-empowering world of Lean In feminism.<\/p>\n Sometime after Anne-Marie Slaughter wrote her revealing 2012 Atlantic<\/i> essay, \u201cWhy Women Still Can\u2019t Have It All<\/span><\/a>,\u201d (to which Sandberg\u2019s book is a reply), society pivoted from the \u201cMommy Wars\u201d of the 1990s to flattening the sexes into androgynous groups where there should be no differences in the types of ambitions or motivations between sexes. So, when outcomes are disparate by sex, there must be something wrong with the individual or the system. It couldn\u2019t possibly be because women have a natural tendency to choose maternal roles or prioritize home and child care over professional advancement. Women have been duped again! Don\u2019t you understand that deep down under all that maternal instinct is a girlboss destined for the C-Suite?<\/p>\n\n