{"id":224,"date":"2018-06-05T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/06\/05\/taking-up-space\/"},"modified":"2018-06-05T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-05T14:00:00","slug":"taking-up-space","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/2018\/06\/05\/taking-up-space\/","title":{"rendered":"Taking up space"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><i>So as my patient apologized to me for the inches of her waist and the heaviness of her breasts and the jiggle of her arms, I thought of all the ways that we humans socialized as females are taught to take up less.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Don&#8217;t talk too loud.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Don&#8217;t be too right.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Don&#8217;t firmly state your opinion, instead precede it with an apology and a deferential &#8220;this is just something I&#8217;ve been thinking&#8221;, Lest in a moment of being strong and deft of mind we be renamed Bitch.<\/i><br \/>\n<i><br \/><\/i><br \/>\n<i>Don&#8217;t show too strong an emotion, for fear of labels like &#8220;Crazy&#8221;, or &#8211;gasp&#8211; &#8220;hysterical&#8221;, a condition named after what is apparently our defining organ??<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/holly.vanschaick.9\/posts\/10201584758658126\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">From an incredible essay by a friend of a friend<\/a>. The entire essay is so worth reading.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>So as my patient apologized to me for the inches of her waist and the heaviness of her breasts and the jiggle of her arms, I thought of all the ways that we humans socialized as females are taught to take up less. Don&#8217;t talk too loud. Don&#8217;t be too right. Don&#8217;t firmly state your [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/coyotebroad.com\/blawg\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}