(CNN) -- In 1976, Jo Freeman published an essay in Ms. Magazine titled, "Trashing: The Dark Side of Sisterhood," which described how groups of women within the feminist movement attacked and ostracized those seen as too visible or ambitious. "To do something significant, to be recognized, to achieve, is to imply that one is 'making it off other women's oppression' or that one thinks oneself better than other women," she wrote. The piece struck a chord, receiving more letters in response than anything else the magazine had printed. As various over-the-top denunciations of Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg, the avowedly feminist author of "Lean In: Women, Work and the Will to Lead," suggest, it remains depressingly relevant decades later.
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Michelle Goldberg: Sandberg backlash shows many women have issues with female power
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It seems OK if women advocate for the collective, she says, but not if they blow their own horns
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Goldberg: Women seeking authority inspire disproportionate hostility, much more than men
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She says women seem to be harder on each other because they expect so much more
As @placeholder wrote about "trashing," it was often "clothed in the rhetoric of revolution and feminism.