This is how you clean up and leave the room spotless; This is how you say \u201cplease\u201d and \u201cthank you\u201d; This is how you treat people kindly; This is how you smile; This is how you eat without creating a mess; This is how you do your laundry and fold your clothes; This is how you iron your clothes; This is how to cook; I don\u2019t even like cooking<\/em>; This is how you sit up straight and have good posture; This is how you look confident; but what if I\u2019m not confident?<\/em>; Even if you aren\u2019t confident, you have to look like it; This is how to be a woman in society; This is how to cover up when you go outside; This is what you wear to school; This is what you wear to formal events; This is what you wear to a party; This is how you take a flattering picture; This is how to wear makeup; do I even need to wear it?<\/em>; This is how to cover up your blemishes; This is how to fix your makeup after you\u2019ve cried; This is how to look skinny; This is how to go on a diet; This is how how to stay thin; This is how to say no; but what if someone doesn\u2019t take no as an answer?<\/em>; Always walk in a group if you are walking at night; Never go to the bathroom by yourself; Always have your phone with you; Learn to never go somewhere at night; This is how to be a woman in society; This is where the emergency boxes are on campus if you ever need them; This is the number for campus police; This is how you hold your drink if you are at a party; Always get your own drink, never take one from someone else; but what if they seem nice?<\/em>; Always have a sober friend with you if you plan on drinking; Always let someone know where you are going; Send your location to a friend, so they know where you are; Know how to check if the Uber you are getting into is the right car; Always check behind you when you get in your own car; This is how to defend yourself if you ever have to; This is how you ignore catcalls walking down the street; This is how to tell if someone is following you; This is where to buy pepper spray; will I ever need that?<\/em>; This is where to go if you ever feel like you have been drugged; This is how to be a woman in society; This is how to get a partner; This is how to make your partner happy; This is how you forgive people; This is how you apologize; what if I\u2019m not in the wrong?<\/em>; Know that a lot of people won\u2019t take you seriously; Know that you will have to speak louder than any person to be heard; Know that you might not get paid as much as your coworkers; Know that people see you differently because of your gender; Know that you are gonna have to fight for every little thing; This is how to be a woman in society.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Amari Wilson-Rice, ’21<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"full-width-single-post.php","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=808"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1690,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/808\/revisions\/1690"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=808"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=808"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jdlitmag.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=808"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}