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き三 For 0 video 可 this conversation, visit time.com/handmaids became a hell of a lot more plausible. TIME: There are some differences between the show and the book. nonstraight characters ? Atwood: We're taking 0 仟 from now rather than 1984 , and there are more multiracial couples now. ln the b00k I had them being so segregationist, they were just separating everybody and shipping them 0 the way the Nazis did. ln the show, it's different. SO just as we have cell phones ⅲ the p10t now, we have to update other things. Although I was setting it in the future when I was writing it, I didn't know anything about the future. I wrote that thing on an 01d typewriter in Berlin. We didn't even have personal computers yet. Moss: We wanted the show tO be very 、らを relatable. We wanted people t0 see themselves ⅲ it. lfyou're going t0 d0 that, you have to show all types ofpeo- ple. You have tO reflect current society. A question I get asked a lOt in inter- views: DO you gravitate toward feminist roles? This is a question I struggle to answer, because I don't necessarily feel like they are feminist roles. I feel like they're interesting women. The Handmaid's Tale is considered one of the great feminist novels. I actually consider it a human novel about human rights, not just women's rights. Atwood: WeIl, women's rights are human rights unless you have decided that 、 V01 Ⅱ e Ⅱ aren't human. SO those are your choices. If women are human, then women's rights are part Of human rights. Moss: Exactly. Atwood: When we use that word, feminism, I always want tO know: What d0 you mean by it? What are we talking about? lfthe person can describe what they mean by the word, then we can talk about whether I am one ofthose or not. Moss: I find myselfgetting slightly tripped up because I am a feminist, and l'm not ashamed ofit. But that's not why I chose this role. I did it because it's a complex character. Atwood: lfit were only a feminist bOOk you would think, in that case, all the women are over here on the 10W side, and all the men are over here on the high side. But it's more like the way human Atwood: Even more so.When I first published the book, some people did the "it could never happen here" thing. "We're so far along with women's rights that we can't go back. ” I don't hear that much anymore. Moss: I know. One of the things when we first starte d talking about making the show was whether this was something that could be plausible. I love it, but is this something the public is going t0 buy into? And then unfortunately, six months later, it Moss, , れ d A200d say one Ofthe mostprescient scenes in Hulu's The Handmaid's Tale is 0 women's-rights protest against the governme れ t 39

Essay The Awesome Column Hacking myself is the most surprisingly humiliating decision l've ever made By JO Stein ONE DAYWE WILLALL BE HACKED. BY "WE,: ” I MEAN THE famous and powerful, so it's not something you really need t0 worry about. But I d0. SO, figuring the best defense is a good offense, I decided t0 hack myselfin order t0 control the inevitable damage ofbeing outed by Russians, North Koreans, WikiLeaks, Anonymous or that obese guy ⅲ NewJersey whom Donald Trump seems tO know a lOt about. Unfortunately, l've had bad luck tempting someone t0 help me in this endeavor. Over the past three years, l've gotten tWO hackers I found online to agree, but after hours on the phone arranging how t0 d0 this, they suddenly stopped getting back t0 me without doing any hacking, which, s adly, has made me distrustful ofhackers. SO I got my editor t0 assign hacking me t0 tW0 young TIME reporters, t0 whom I gave my passwords, since they didn't have any hacking skills. They, t00, stopped emailing me. ln fact, theywere SO uncomfortable with the assignment, assuming l'd written embarrassing things, that they didn't want me tO use their names in thiS column. concerned there Will be something thatwill weigh on my conscience: an affair or giVIng tO a creepy political cause or secrets hurting Other people; ” said Anonymous Hacker One. Eventually, they promised tO come to me with anything they couldn't deal with. "Unless we find something that is legally dubious—then l'll go t0 your editor," said Anonymous Hacker TWO. I d0 not know what kind ofvibe I am giving 0ff, though I suspect it has something t0 d0 with that one day I wore mandals tO the Offce. I, meanwhile,was unconcerned. I live an honest, clean, transparent existence free ofracism, sexism, homophobia and that thing where you demean little people, which needs a name. I abstain from doing awful things because I enjoy feeling morally superior. I also enjoy feeling intellectually superior, physically superior and aesthetically superior, all ofwhich really gets ⅲ the way ofbeing morally superior. But mostly I wasn't worried because anything humiliating l've done l've already written a column about, including the mandals. THE ADVICE HACKERS GIVE when looking for dirt in a pile Of data is tO search forwords such as pissed or 0 れ g ワ . They suggest figuring out tO whom the most emails are sent, since that signals a trusted relationship. And tO use Facebook tO suss out relationships—ex-girlfriends, COllege acquaintances—to spot dubious interactions. Deleted phOtO s are telling, as are erased emails. And they say to always, always 100k in the draft folder, which houses the truly horrible stuffpeople are t00 smart t0 send. The draft folder is each and every one ofour personal Nixon White House tapes. 47 that none Ofus want tO live in. cruel things, not even in drafts. And that's a world text. Which means we'll have no safe space tO say going t0 have any friends or family le 代 t0 email or their names in a data dump. Otherwise, we're not before our friends and family are able to search for We had better figure out how to end hacking against being hacked. You're welcome, honey. am divulging this SO that she, tOO, is now immunized she's had done or medical issues she's dealingwith. I want tO share publicly, about cosmetic procedures boyfriends. She also mentions things she wouldn't from friends who tell her horrible stuffabout their human being. " And my wife forwards me a lot ofemails that the radio host Mancow is a "highly unpleasant parents' visits, friends whO voted for Trump, the fact each Other, my son's issues at schOOl, complaints after secrets: people's affairs, mutual friends wh0 dislike potentially being made public were other people's BUT T INFORMATION l'd feel most horrible about Mindy Kaling didn't return my email. Twice. the trunk ofyour car? ” And people would know that ofcontext, including, "Remember Barbie Kean and ifthey were made public simply because oftheir lack is crazy, "crazy. ” Some emails would be devastating is self-pitying. I called a good friend, who I don't think emails l'd written about a family member wh01 think Anonymous Hackers One and TWO found very mean which is nearly the world. person I am talking about behind their back in email world in my emails, I have a 10t t0 hide from any given idiots like me. while I have nothing t0 hide from the shouldn't be afraid ofbeing hacked are, it turns out, later. people who say that those with nothing t0 hide 18 , 000- 、 A70rd document ofhumiliations three weeks Using this advice, my two hackers delivered an

TENDENCY tO apologize was the re- sult 0f an unexpected symptom of her grief: Sandberg completely lost her self- confidence. "lt just kind of crumbled in every area; ” she says. "I didn't think I could be a good friend. I didn't feel like I could do my job. ” She wasn't even sure she could look after her grieving kids. This surprised Sandberg as much as anyone: "lt reminded me of how one day in my neighborhood I watched a house that had taken years tO build get torn down in a matter ofminutes; ” she writes in 0 を t れ B. "Boom. Flattened. ” On her first day back at work, she says, she fell asleep in a meeting, rambled and misidentified a colleague, then le 仕 at 2 p ・ m ・ t0 pick up her kids from school. That evening she called Zuckerberg to see if she should even be there. "Mark said, 'Take the time offyou need,' ” says Sand- berg. "And that's what I would have said tO someone in the same situation. But then he said, 'Actually l'm really glad you were here today. You made two really good points—here's what they were. ' ” That small vote of confidence led to one of the biggest changes Sandberg made in her management style: She no longer automatically diverts work from people facing personal adversity. NOW she asks if they want tO dO it because, counterintuitively, relieving people Of some Of their responsibilities could mean denying them a way of finding their bearings. When Cafyn Marooney was diagnosed with breast cancer shortly after she was asked to head up global communications at Facebook, Sandberg encouraged her tO take the promotion. "Sheryl had been a vulnerable leader that I had gotten to see close up; ” says Marooney. She t00k the job, and ⅲ one Of her first meetings with her team members she let them know she was undergoing treatment. "lt helped people share things with me in a way that helped me understand how to do the job better and faster,: ” Marooney says. Silicon Valley wasn't all so gentle and touchy-feely. Another friend, venture capitalist Chamath Palihapitiya, told Sandberg tO remember her ambition and 'get back on the motherf-cking path. ” He also gave her a chain tO wear Goldberg's wedding band around her neck. (Zuckerberg had also given her a 35 FAMILY ALBUM 'DAVE WAS A ROCK. DAVE WAS MYROCK. ' GoIdberg was smitten with people, as a couple. They really Sandberg from the first movie navigated life. ” GoIdberg advised they saw together—Courage Sandberg to join Facebook, and Under Fire—but it t00k Sandberg he warned her that the first draft SiX years tO come around. Their Of も ea れ加 was "like eating your llth wedding anniversary was a Wheaties ” and needed more few weeks before he died, and personal details. He was widely Sandberg regrets spending it recognized as the Silicon Valley apart. "Dave was one Of the most sage 1 れ OSt generous With hiS time. humble, grounded, confident "I realize how biased I am, but I people l've ever met; ” says his think the world lost something friend Phil Deutch (pictured ⅲ incredibly special when they lost group photo, bottom right). "They Dave; ” says Sandberg. "I meet were fun and great tO be around, people on a weekly basis wh0 tell and interested and curious, as me, 'Dave changed my life. ” ( 9 ) 9U380NVS コ A 3 工のの 3 トコ 00

7 Questions Dr. Wi11ie Parker He grew up Christian ⅲ Alabama and became a doctor at the suggestion Of a college mentor. ln Life's Ⅳ or た , he explains why he's now an abortion provider that out Ofa sense ofcommitment tO When yo 収 first became an ob-gyn the background from which I came, ifl YO did not perform abortions couldn't make women in the South—a because YO 設 felt it conflicted with disproportionate number ofwhom your Christian prmciples. What are poor and ofcolor, which is my changed? l've been a Christian longer background—ifl couldn't make those than l've been a physician. When I chose women a priority, WhO would? a career as a women's health provider, I had t0 think more seriously, more deeply about the fact that I see women on a Abortion providers have been the regular basis who have unplanned and targets Of violence, yet YO don't unwanted pregnancies. The compassion have a bodyguard and don't wear a that welled up inside me for each bulletproof vest. DO yo fear for your life? lfl succumb to an anxiety that woman—each woman had a story, a leaves me more preoccupied with what circumstance—it came tO a POint Where can happen t0 me than the good I can increasingly it was uncomfortable tO be do, that's already a form of death. saymg no. What I believed and what I practiced began tO come intO conflict. Are women's reproductive rights HOW did yo 設 reconcile your more vulnerable now than they were before 飛 oe 仇 Wade? ln my opinion religious beliefs with your sense 0f professional obligation? My epiphany there hasn't been a day since Roe v. Wade became legal in 1973 that women came while listening tO a sermon by haven't had tO fight tO maintain access Dr. Martin Luther King. ln that sermon he described what made the Good tO this very important service. oe has been in place for 44 years, but never has Samaritan good. Someone had been robbed, le 仕 on the side ofthe road it been more vulnerable. injured, and multiple people passed that person by. They all were afraid ofwhat What will happen ifRoeis over- turned? IfRoe were tO be overturned, might h 叩 pen t0 them if they stopped t0 abortion would not become illegal in help. A person not 仕 om the community this country. But itwould go back t0 pre- described as the Samaritan stopped 1973 , when we had states like NewYork, and provided aid. Dr. King said what made that person good was his ability t0 California, Hawaii and several others reverse the question ofconcern, tO ask that legalized abortion before what will h 叩 pen to this person ifl don't the oe decision. Women stop t0 help. would have their reproductive On that particular day, while listening rights determined by their zip code. The real peril is that if tO that sermon and contemplating my role as a women's health provider, it states are left tO their own became very personal for me. I became mechanisms, in most states the person on the road having t0 respond women would lose access tO the need ofanother person—in this tO abortion services. case women asking me tO help them safely end their pregnancies. Are YO hopeful about the future Of women's Why did yo 収 decide tO provide reproductive rights? abortions ⅲ the South? When lleft If I were not hopeful Alabama at the age of 18 , I was ofthe for the future, I would mind-set that Alabama is a better place not get out ofbed every tO be from than tO be in. But increasingly day. I really believe that with my skill in abortions came the hopelessness and despair awareness Ofthe degree tO which access will become a self-fulfilling tO abortion care is limited. I decided prophesy. —ALICE PARK 48 TIME April 24 , 2017 'There hasn't been a day since Roe し Wade became legal in 1973 that women haven't had tO fight tO maintain access tO thiS very important service [of abortion]. ' 0

Television Time Off societies actually arrange themselves, which means some powerful people at the top. The women connected tO those people have more power than the men connected tO the bottom rank. 、嗄 OSS : The commanders' Wives have more power than the male servants. Atwood: You betcha. And Queen Elizabeth I had more power than Joe the peasant. TIME: ls it harder tO get proJects with multiple female leads made ? 、嗄 oss : l've found that to be an issue. I optioned a bOOk with tWO women in it and was tOld multiple times it was "tOO female. ” I was like, Are you even allowed to say that? Atwood: lt's not a problem in the world ofwriting because publishers have this lightbulb over their head that tells them that women read a lot of books. ln fact, there was a funny thing that happened a few years ago in which they were girlifying the covers ABOVE Moss s Offred, Peggy from the end 0fMad Men Margaæt At%00d 0 womanforced intO of fiction, including men's fiction. became a feminist meme. DO YO servitude after her child な Mos s : Really? think that will happen with The た e れ om her Atwood: You really had to fight off the Handmaid's Tale? publishers to keep them from putting Atwood: Why did that become a LEFT Everything that flowers on your bOOk. meme for feminism? Because Of happens ⅲ Atwood's novel Moss: What does Margaret Atwood smoking? n 山 i 曲 ' e 0 を e れ ed SO れ let れ e in read while she's relaxing? Moss: [Laughing] No. lt's her walking ん st0 the au 市 or says Atwood: l'm pretty omnivorous. into her new job. She leaves this old POP science—something Where place after a very long time. somebody else tells me the result come t0 being dead, such as myself, the Atwood: lt's a brave new world. You've with usually, I hope, lovely colored les s likely you are to attract such things. come a long way, baby. Virginia Slims. illustrations. ShOW me the pictures Young women With some power are Moss: Exactly. She's walking down and tell me what you found out. Don't particularly subject tO it, because it's also the hall, and she's carrying a box of make me actually d0 the study and kill a love-hate-love-hate thing. This is an her things and wearing sunglas s e s, all those mice. Everything from there attractive personwhom I ' 1 れ never going doesn't give a sh-t and has made this all the way through to sci-fi, spec-fic, to have a date with, so I hate them. Don't giant leap because it takes place in the regular novels, nonfiction, history, you think? ' 60S. l'm super-proud to have been biography and gr 叩 hic novels. A lot of 、復 OSS : lt's similar tO a scene in the show: part Ofa moment that people can gain history, as you might imagine. a woman reveals that she was the victim any inspiration from or connect With ofrape, and she's told, "You brought this women's rights. 第 M E: Margaret, you re very active upon yourself. You deserve this. ” I can ask the same question ofyou. on Twitter. Elisabeth, you re not on You go out in a sexy dress on the Does the fact that I have the れ 0 翫 e te Twitter at all. What do you make of red carpet, SO now we're allowed tO say bastardes carborundorum ("Don't let the sometimes tOXiC nature Of social whatever we want about you. But that's the bastards grind you down ” ) line media, including slut-shaming? from the book on my necklace, or the not 0. K. Atwood: I am on Twitter, but l'm too Atwood: That's always been the case. If fact that people get it tattooed, is that 01d tO attract slut-shaming. I hate to you go back t0 the 19th century, it was weird? breåk this to you, but I don't think opera stars and female theater stars whO Atwood: I'II tell you the weird thing anyone's interested in Ⅱ le. attracte d this kind 0f thing. lt's not new. about it: it was a jOke in our Latin Moss: [Sarcastically]What a shame. lt just gets amplified. classes. SO this thing from my childhood That's too bad. l'm so sorry about that. is permanently on people's bodies. Atwood: Right? There are pluses and TIME: Speaking ofsocial media, This interview has been edited fo 「 clarity minuses ofgetting 01der. The closeryou EIisabeth, an image ofyour character and context 40 TIME ApriI 24 , 2017 T 工 E 工 A N D M A 一 D ・ S TA L E 【 G E 0 R G E K R AYC 工 Y K—工 U L U

mother, even ahighly resourced one, came as a shock t0 Sandberg. They made her re- think some ofLean . "When I lookback at the chapter called 'Make Your Partner a Real Partner,' it has, like, abig old assump- tion that you have a partner,: ” She says. "I got that wrong. Almost 10 million women are single mothers in the U. S. , and about one-third of those households live ⅲ poverty— something that enrages Sandberg. "I think it's part 0f why I have become so outspoken on public policy now; ” she says. "l'm ⅲ a different place. ” On Father's Day, she and her children went tO a camp for kids whose dads are incarcerated. And in April, she promoted a campaign tO draw attention tO the gen- der pay gap by persuading businesses t0 charge 20 % less for a day. She wants tO see changes in maternity leave, paternity leave and living-wage laws. But she's even less inclined than Worid Series of Poker championships. chain, so Sandberg—half empath half she was before G01dberg died to enter She even had a party for Deutch, whose Spock—had them welded together at the public offce—partly because her focus is birthday will forever be associated with ends and wears both. ) on her kids and partly because she feels Goidberg's death "You know, it's never she can move the needle more effectively going t0 be the same," Deutch says, 'but OVER TIME, Sandberg began tO emerge from where she is. "My loyalty to Mark she really went t0 great efforts t0 help take from the fog. Her mom didn t have t0 lie was deep before and is deeper now," she a day that s pretty dark and change it. ” beside her every night as she cried herself says. Faceb00k recently implemented Sandberg, t00 , is changed. "I think she t0 sleep. She danced at a party and felt a slew Of new bereavement and family- Just has more perspectlve,' says Zucker- momentarily happy She didn't travel as illness leave policies, which she hopes berg when he first got the message from much or have as many work dinners, but will pressure Other tech companies tO she got out. She started playing the piano her 0 Ⅱ that Friday night that said "Urgent, please c 記 4 ' he thought it was probably a follow suit. again after 30 years and created new rlt- But the more mundane stuff breaks work issue, even though She was on vaca- uals with her kids: they started biking her heart t00. "Does there have tO be tion 、、 A 10t 0f things used t0 be 'Urgent, and have weekly "family awesome fun a father-daughter dance? ” she asks. please ca 〃 ' ” he says. "These days they're where one child chooses an activity. She 'My kids will say things like 'You're the not. But I think that that's made her a bet- also lets the kids have sleepovers which only parent I have left. ' Or my daughter ter leader' For her part, Sandberg says, Goldberg, who thought his klds now 9 has been talking about how she doesn't "Mark's one ofthe people wh0 really car- and 12 , needed sleep, had not ailowed. remember her father, his voice. She said, ried me. I believe even more I work with Encouraged by her in-laws, Sand 'l'm glad I have video, because I didn't the greatest person in the world. berg eventually started dating t00. Her think his voice sounded like that. ' ” The Sandberg has faced adversity, de- current beau is B0bby KOtick whO runs remote-controlled blinds come down. veloped resilience and found some JOY. the gammg company Activision Blizzard "I feel it every day. Every day. I go to my and comes from the same brand of cud But what she can't d0 anything about— son's basketball game, and there are a lot what still makes her lower the remote- dly mensch as G01dberg. She has replaced of fathers there. My daughter is going to controlled blinds 1 Ⅱ her meetlng room at the photo of a beach at dusk ⅲ her bed- be in the school play next week, and Dave work and weep every time she talks about room with one of a beach during the day is not here tO go tO any Ofthat. ” it—is the fact that she cannot givp her kids She's even taken back 'birthdays. First she A few weeks after GoIdberg died, started celebrating her own which she their father back. Telling them he was gone was the there was a father-child event at the used to do only every five years. kidsi school, and Deutch proposed des- hardest thing she has ever done. She "She embraces JOY ⅲ a different way ignating a stand-in dad. Sandberg pro- avoids talking about it, but ⅲ 0 を ti0 れ B than she has before, ' says friend Levine tested that it wasn't the same as hav- she wrltes that "nothing has come "She tries to make her birthdays as JOY- ing Goldberg there. Deutch put his arm close tO the pain Of this moment. Even ん 1 as possible. ” On G01dberg's birthday, now When my mind wanders back, around her. "Option A is not available; ” the kids play poker, his favorite game, he said. "SO let's just kick the shit out of I shake and my throat constricts. ' ⅲ which they are being coached by Pa- The difflculties of being a single Option B. ” ロ lihapitiya, wh0 has competed ⅲ the 36 TIME April 24 , 2017 ま を 血 the wa 可 loss, she and Sa 祠 Zucke g changed お“ eboo に S olicies C 工 A R L E S 0 M M A N N E Y— FA C E B 00 K

Television Time Off Margaret Atwood wrote The Handmaid's Tale, a dystopian novel about a society with a plummeting birth rate, in 1984. ln the book, a totalitarian American regime strips women Of their rights and forces those who are fertile tO become "handmaids" tO bear children for wealthy men and their barren wives. Hulu iS making the landmark work into a shOW starring . Mad Men's Elisabeth Moss that will premiere on April 26. Here Atwood and Moss discuss the story's newfound relevance. —Eliana Dockterman Why this shOW now? TIME: Elisabeth Moss: I get asked a lot whether the shOW is in response tO the election, but we were filming befo rehand. MargaretAtwood: The control 0f women and babies has been a part 0f every repressive regime in history. ThiS has been happening all along. I don't take it lightlywhen a politician says something like a pregnancy can't re sult from a rape because awoman's bOdy knows it and rej ects it. There'S an under- current ofthis [type ofthinking]. And then it rises tO the surface sometimes. But The Handmaid's TaIe is always relevant, ] ust in different ways in different political contexts. NOt that much has change d. 、嗄 OSS : When we first met, we were in a very loud restaurant, SO I was sort of leaning over the table trying desperately t0 hear all 0fyour answers. But you said that the kernel 0f the idea was hOW you would control women by shutting down their bank accounts. Atwood: AISO it was, IfAmericawere PHOTOGRAPHS BY RUVEN AFANADOR FOR TIME the air iS cleaner. going tO dO a totalitarian government, Atwood : A character ⅲ the book what kind Of totalitarian government says, "Better never means better for would it be? lt wouldn't be communism. NO surprises there. I thought it would everyone. Moss: You've said a lot, and l've repeated have tO be some sort oftheocracy, like often, that everything that happened in the 17th century in the U. S. I was always The Handmaid's Tale has happened. very interested in the salem witch trials, Atwood: Somewhere at some time. another instance ofcontrolling women. I made nothing up ・ 、嗄 oss : We touch on this more in the show than in the book, but even though 、嗄 OSS : And now we're at a time when our climate iS What it iS in . America things are bad for the handmaids, the and in the world. DO you still feel this government has improved some things. could happen? There are more babies being born,

conversation prefer a president who tells it like it is SO that I know where I stand with him for better or for worse. Sammy Somekh, RAMAT GAN, ISRAEL THE NEW TRUTH RE "CAN TRUMP HANDLE the Truth? ” [April 3 ] : As an Americ an expat living in Australia, I have watched the Donald Trump circus With more than average in- terest. For a11 the euphe- misms, the bottom line is that THE POWER OF WORDS Trump is and always was a RE "A LETTER TO THE PRES- ident ” [April 3 ] : At the cru- liar. Whether lying is ⅲ his cial moment when people's DNA or is calculated does not faith in America iS waning matter. lt is still unaccept- pops up lbtihaj Muhammad's able in a President. WhiIe letter tO Preside nt Trump. many Americans approve Of The letter ofletters. Thank Trump, the feeling here is you, lbtihaj; there is hope, e ntertaine rs. Their reward that he is a morally bankrupt I WAS SO MOVED BY THIS letter that I had t0 stop re ad- should be based on the reve- person totally unworthy t0 be agaln. ing because I couldn't see nue they generate. paying fe- Markku Vanhanen, President Ofone Ofour maJOr the words through my tears. male athletes on the basis of allies. ln Australia he is seen JARVENPAA, FINLAND Muhammad's spirit and hope sex damages the valid argu- as ajoke, and America 100ks illustrate the best in Ameri- ment for equal pay for equal the fool for electing him. MUHAMMAD'S PASSIONATE cans Of every race, religion work for ofwomen letter about what it's like Richard Keyes, and culture. Let's resist the in the Wider workforce. to be a Muslim in the U. S. , ENFIELD, AUSTRALIA evil forces of racism, bigotry wearing hijab and fight- R0bertJames, and incompetence OfthiS ing for an Olympic medal is NO, TRUTH IS NOT DEAD, CANB E RRA Administration ・一 even if it iS not yet. But due tO the insane quite impressive. But I can't something as seemingly in- politically correct climate help feeling a bit uneasy, SAVING RHINOS consequential as saying he110 and hypocrisy ofalmost all not about what she says but RE "A RISE IN RHINO POACH- about what she does not say. tO someone different from glObal mainstream media— ing? ” [April 3 ] : Despite mas- yourself while waiting in line N0t a single word about the sive efforts tO protect rhinos TIME magaz ine included— at the supermarket. ⅲ Africa by dedicated people truth very s eldom shows up. murdering terrorists practic- J00 Dubie, whO put their lives at risk on Luciano Morelli, ing exactly the same religion as she does. What to think a daily basis, the war against WESTBOROUGH, MASS. ROME about a person who feels rhino poaching is being lost. fit to tell everybody what Pressure has to be applied PAY FOR PLAY WHAT WE HAVE IS THE truth according t0 Trump, wonderful people American RE "HOW FEMALE ATH- tO corrupt governments in wh0 is deeply convinced Muslims are but who does lete s Can Help Advance the Africa and Asia to reduce Of his assertions. Like it or not explain the dark side of Fight for Fair Pay ” [April 3 ] : demand and to force them not, the President speaks his this religion? She seems fore- Paying top female athletes tO crack down on the crime mind instead 0f hiding be- mo st tO be a strong-willed the same prize money as top syndic ates that are profiting hind convoluted diplomatic God- crazy woman, dabbling male athletes is not an ex- from one ofthe most expen- niceties for the sake Of po- in religious marketing. ample offair pay: it is an ex- Sive commodities on earth. litical expediency or politi- Georg Hausherr, ample ofsexism and politi- Alas tair S 慊 e ら cal correctness. I personally cal correctness. Athletes are ROUFFIAC, FRANCE JOHANNESBURG CAN TRUMP HANDLE THE TRUTH? TALK TO US SEND AN EMAIL: letters@timemagazine.com Please dO not send attachments Send 0 r : Letters to the Editor must include writer'sfull name, address 0 〃 d home telephone, may be editedforpurposes ofclarity orspace, 0 ou 旧 addressed to the nearestofice: HONG KONG - TIME Magazine 地 e 博 , 37 / F , 0x House, Taikoo Place, 979 King,s RO , Qu 砒 Bay, Hong Kong; JAPAN - TIME Magazine 地 e 博 , 2-51-27F Atago, Tokyo 1056227 , Japan, EUROPE - TIME Magazine ers , po Box 63444 London, SEIP 5F 」 , UK; PIease recycle this magazine and AUSTRALIA - TIME M0g0i00 00 , GPO Box 3873 , sydney, NSW 2001 , Au ・ t 財 0 ; 肥 mo inserts NEW ZEALAND - TIME M0g0i00 00 , po BO 、 198 , Sho 市 00d st. , Auck ね nd , 1140 , N00 Z00 nd before recycling FOLLOW US.• facebook.com/time @哲 me (Twitter and lnstagram) 2 TIME April 24 , 2017

disgraceful has happened. People avoid them, don't invite them out, fall silent when they enter the room. The grieving are Often isolated when they most need community. That's a problem that Sandberg, now 47 , can workwith. The woman wh0 urged the world tO lean in is now undertaking a campaign t0 help people push on, t0 bounce back from horrible misfortune. Her newest book, 0 tio B: Facing Adversity, BuildingResilience, 0 れ d Finding JO. ツ , iS a primer for those WhO are bereaved, t0 help them recover and find happiness. But it's also a guide for the unscathed on how to help people "lean in to the suck,: ” as Sandberg's rabbi puts it. She wrote the book with her friend and collaborator Adam Grant, a psychologist and the author ofthe best sellers Originals and Give 0 れ d Ta た e. Like も ea れ加 , 0 を tio れ B comes with a nonprofit launched by the SheryI Sandberg & Dave GoIdberg Family Foundation. The organization aims tO "change the conversation around adversity," Sandberg's representatives say. If that seems vague, recall that nobody really knewwhat the Lean ln Circles were supposed tO dO either—but there are now 30 , 000 Of them in 150 countries. Some might argue that Sandberg is the wrong te acher for a course in hard knocks. After all, her life, from the outside, seems a mind-bogglingly privileged existence among brainiac titans. She's a billionaire ⅲ no danger oflosing her job, no matter how much time she takes 0 圧 She can afford round-the-clock therapy, and her network can put her ⅲ touchwith anyone. Sandberg is well aware of her advantages. (And in case she needed a reminder, just last month, author Camille Paglia called her "insufferably smug and entitled. ” ) But she has deployed a disadvantage as her ultimate asset: vulnerability. ln June 2015 , a month into her widowhood, after a particularly lousy day, Sandberg posted on Facebook the social-media equivalent of Edvard Munch's Scream. "I think when tragedy occurs, it presents a ChOice; ” She wrote. "You can glve in tO the void, the emptiness that fills your heart, your lungs , constricts your ability t0 think or even breathe. Or you can try t0 find meaning. These past 30 days, I have spent many 0f my moments lost in that void. ” Suddenly, Superwoman became very human. 34 TIME April 24 , 2017 Except because she is the kind ofper- son who always has at hand a Ziploc bag filled with exactly the right number of macadamia nuts, Sandberg's howl intO the void came with helpful tips. Don't avoid the heartbroken (except when they obviously want t0 be avoided). Don't tell them that everything will be 0. K. be- cause, well, how would you know? And don't ask the bereaved how they are. ln- stead ask them how they are 市砒 day. NONE OF THE ADVICE in the post or ⅲ the book is particularly new. Grief is not a novel problem. But not very many folks with Sandberg's platform and pain have talked about it, with the intent of starting a movement. "She was able tO find some gratitude," says Grant, "and really think about how she could share the experience she had in a way that would help other people. ” Sandberg's 2015 post has now drawn almost 75 , 000 comments, including ones from Facebook employees who didn't know hOW tO react tO their famous boss, whO occasionally broke down in tears in a meeting—which, as Sandberg writes, is not the kind of disruption SiIicon VaIIey is looking for. "I think a lot ofpeople wanted t0 reach out to her, but they didn't know how," says Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. "You know, there's this whole question of, Are you reopening a wound or something? And 0f course, what she would say is not reopening the wound. 1 1 e an, it's, like, open and gaping ・ A month before G01dberg died, Tracy Zamot, a music publicist in NewYork, also lost her husband suddenly, of a pulmonary embolism. She says Sandberg's post had THE BEREAVED ARE OFTEN TREATED LIKE THOSE TO WHOM SOMETHING UNNATURAL OR DISGRACEFUL HAS HAPPENED a real effect on the way people talked to her. "The minute she wrote, 'HOW are you today?' people started asking me that; ” she says, which made answering the question much easier. "I didn't feel like I was going to explode into a ball of flames every time I had tO answer. ” Sandberg claims that she shared her feelings 0 Ⅱ impulse, but the response pushed her t0 action. "I got SO much Of this wrong, so much of this wrong; ” she says in her glass-walled conference room, which is identified by a small plaque near the door that reads, ONLY GOOD NEWS. To Grant, a Wharton SchooI profes- sor, Sandberg has made a contribution not just t0 self-help but also t0 leader- ship. "I would like more leaders to real- ize what Sheryl did through living it; ” he says. "Expressing emotion When you ve gone through extreme pain is not we ak- ness. lt is humanity. ln the weeks after GoIdberg died, even before she posted on Facebook, Sandberg had been codifying her agony in a jour- nal and sharing it with a few close confi- dantes. "I wrote and I wrote and I wrote; ” she says. Keeping a journal is one of the activities She recommends tO ease the grieving process. "Literally all I did was my kids, come to work and write. ” The 100 , 000- plus words she eventually wrote were a big part 0f her recovery and be- came the spine ofher b00k. What Sandberg learned, with the help Of Grant, was that there are three myths people cling t0 that make it harder t0 spring back from adversity. The first is that they're somehow responsible for what h 叩 pened to them. The second is that sadness must carpet their lives from wall to wall. And the third is that they will never feel any better. Ever the communi- cator, Sandberg calls these mistakes the threep's: thinking about adversity as per- sonal, pervasive and permanent. The lessons, which she says she wishes she knew when her first marriage ended in divorce, didn't come easily. Grant tOld Sandberg she had to ban the word sor . "Sheryllikes to ban things that are not productive, like #banbossy,: ” he says, citing Sandberg's campaign t0 stop using a word about girls that is never used tO describe boys. "There's no more effective way tO argue with someone whO's strong- willed than tO turn their own words around on them.