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Lean In should be read by everyone, including men
- prawks 14y agoIs the text of this post displaying poorly for anyone else? EDIT: Ah, zooming in a bit fixed it...
- walexander 14y agoThe font is basically unreadable for me in chrome.
- jasonshen 14y agoInteresting. It's Open Sans Light. It looks like this in Chrome for me: http://imgur.com/oQJZpri http://imgur.com/oQJZpri What makes it hard for you to read?
- prawks 14y agoMy default zoom level in Chrome (nothing crazy, mind you) the 'e' character has no horizontal bar, the ''a' character is not connected, it's also quite jagged. It's funny how such simple things can be so jarring.
- Smudge 14y agoI'm on Chrome for Windows and your blog is pretty hard to read. I know that CfW has a ton of font rendering issues, making it easy to overlook some pretty common "jagged font" cases. Here's some more info: "Using Web fonts in your design requires thorough testing on as many different browsers and platforms as possible, with a close look at various options for rendering text. If the screen display is of poor quality and lacks subpixel rendering, then opt for graceful degradation by serving system fonts to older browsers and OS. Conditional comments are the easiest way to exclude older browsers and operating systems from style sheets with Web fonts. Of course, JavaScript is a more elegant way to detect whether a client’s subpixel rendering is turned on." http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/02/the-font-face-rule-revisited-and-useful-tricks/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/03/02/the-font-face-rul... Also useful: http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-font-rendering/ http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2012/04/24/a-closer-look-at-...
- pifflesnort 14y agoThe disclaimer made me cringe: "as a man writing about gender inequality, I acknowledge my privileged (and biased) viewpoint in this discussion." In what upside-down universe is it considered necessary to pre-emptive apologize for what you are (a man) and what you might unintentionally do (offend someone's sensibilities)? These kind ridiculous expectations of others is why the Adria Richards thing blew up, not because of (quoting the article the author links to) "One Brogrammer's Sexist Joke".
- prawks 14y agoIn the universe where the author would likely get a dozen one-off responses mentioning his ignorance of privilege.
- jasonshen 14y agoThank you - this would have been the reality of the situation.
- avenger123 14y agoAgreed. Since when did it become normal to apologize for being a man with a viewpoint? I like the article but there is too much "please don't be mad at me if I offend." Here's a reality bite: Doesn't matter what you say, someone will get offended.
- jasonshen 14y agoBeing a man with a strong viewpoint when talking about women's issues is like being an non-technical MBA going off about how programmers should architect their code. If you don't acknowledge the disparity, you will immediately turn off a huge segment of your target audience. Yes, people may still get offended, but you can try to REDUCE the likelihood that they do, in order to effectively reach more people.
- avenger123 14y agoWell, I have an MBA and also instruct on how one should architect their code since I have a strong engineering background. I am smart enough to realize what language to use and how to do this in a way that fits the target audience. I don't preface my discussions with - "Please don't be offended that I have a business degree." This is my point, your audience will judge you on your content, not your disclaimer. You have your opinion on this and we respectfully disagree :). Good for you for writing the article.
- holograham 14y agoSolid (positive) review. I too have read Lean In and recommend it to the men as much (if not more) than women I work with. I take some issues to some of Sandberg's arguments but the book is tremendous overall. Has changed my attitude considerably.