She’s delivering the commencement Class Day speech at Harvard. How exciting! But she refuses to meet with female workers at a Cambridge hotel who are trying to unionize.

Because that’s sort of icky. And, you know…they don’t go to TED. So they’re not really powerful. And they can’t help her.

Seriously—regular readers of this blog know that I’m a Sandberg skeptic and I think her book is a shallow attempt to address a serious issue. She may not feel that she knows enough about the union drive to weigh in; she may disagree with it. But someone who expects to be taken seriously on issues of women and work owes a group of female workers—who actually have formed a “Lean-In” circle—a more honest response than “sorry, I’m too busy.” If you write a book that’s intended to be a femi-festo, you can’t just ignore the relevant issues whenever they become a little inconvenient.