This is so the worst thing you're going to read all day.

[Trigger warning for misogyny and gender essentialism.]

When a woman should act like a man. Uh-huh.

There are good points buried within this article about, for instance, the impossible task working women face in striking precisely the right tone—not too passive, not too aggressive. (Spoiler Alert: The Sweet Spot is actually the Nonexistent Spot!) But the entire framing, which assigns certain attributes to men and certain attributes to women, without sufficient discussion of gendered socialization, renders the whole thing problematic, to put it politely.

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