How to Be a Woman Archive

  • Random Snippets From My Own Feminist Journey OR A Few Things I Learned About Being a Woman

    Posted on November 18, 2012 | 4 Comments
    Around that time, I also got it into my head that I would like to be President of the United States when I grew up. I sent multiple letters to the White House.

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  • Nearly True: Man Reading Moran Uncovers Repressed Grooming Memory

    Posted on November 16, 2012 | 6 Comments
    Since I had no idea what she was talking about, I assumed her question had to do with fine-tuning the performance of our new house cleaning service by paying for a more expensive option involving, perhaps, additional personnel from Brazil.

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  • There you are

    Posted on November 16, 2012 | 5 Comments
    How old were you when you last felt completely like yourself without checking in with the rest of the world to see if you were "acceptable"?

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  • I Don’t Know What to do With my Breasts! And I Think I’ve Experienced Some Sexism

    Posted on November 15, 2012 | 7 Comments
    Although it would take a lot more life experience for the lesson to sink in, it was important to have a sense at a young age that I wouldn't settle for just any attention that came my way, to know that I would rather be alone than feel small and humiliated or like a body part that just happened to have a person attached to it.

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  • “I Hate the Feminists”

    Posted on November 14, 2012 | 10 Comments
    I wish 17-year-old me could've had a good chat with Caitlin Moran. Perhaps Moran could've helped me realize that feminists are on my side, not something scary and Other.

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  • I Am a (Mormon?) Feminist

    Posted on November 14, 2012 | 2 Comments
    My first official introduction to feminism came in an undergraduate class on Feminist Theory at BYU (an idea that now makes me chuckle, it seems like such an oxymoron).

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  • I’d Rather Pretend I Don’t Have One

    Posted on November 13, 2012 | 12 Comments
    Some parts of How to Be a Woman are so funny, they left me in bed, shrieking with laughter. I'm talking about legs sticking up the air, writhing in the bed, gripping the bed sheets laughing.

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  • Dudes–How To Be A Woman is a Must-Read!

    Posted on November 12, 2012 | 17 Comments
    Feminism can, and should, be explained in a way to men that is not only understandable, but also sympathetic, without making them feel like complicit conspirators in the patriarchal society they inherited, but did not intentionally design.

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  • How to Be a Woman Week

    Posted on November 12, 2012 | 8 Comments
    So, here it is, The D&S How to Be a Woman Week, wherein we'll be discussing our favorite parts of the book and that scariest of all F-words -- feminism

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