What Sheryl Sandberg’s Facebook disaster means for women

This is a depressing and ironic example of what feminists have been saying all along: women are people. These two things can coexist at once: Sheryl Sandberg can be rightly cast as a corporate villain, and also misogyny can animate how we understand, portray, and punish women’s unscrupulousness. That doesn’t mean we cut Sandberg unearned slack in the name of feminism. It does mean that we knock off the “boys will be boys” attitude about men…