{"id":5009,"date":"2014-11-27T23:26:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:26:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mokita.de\/blog\/?p=5009"},"modified":"2014-11-27T23:26:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T22:26:48","slug":"was-uebrig-bleibt-i-have-been-envious-of-male-characteristics-if-not-the-men-themselves-im-jealous-of-the","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/2014\/11\/27\/was-uebrig-bleibt-i-have-been-envious-of-male-characteristics-if-not-the-men-themselves-im-jealous-of-the\/","title":{"rendered":"Was \u00fcbrig bleibt: &quot;I have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I\u2019m jealous of the&#8230;&quot;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I\u2019m jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they\u2019re trying to do. The fact that they are so often free of the people-pleasing instincts I have considered to be a curse of my female existence. I have watched men order at dinner, ask for shitty wine and extra bread with a confidence I could never muster, and thought, What a treat that must be. But i also consider being female such a unique gift, such a sacred joy, in ways that run so deep I can\u2019t articulate them. It\u2019s a special kind of privilege to be born into the body you wanted, to embrace the essence of your gender even as you recognize what you are up against. Even as you seek to redefine it.<br \/>\nI know that when I am dying, looking back, it will be women that I regret having argued with, women I sought to impress, to understand, was tortured by. Women I wish to see again, to see them smile and laugh and say, It was all as it should have been.\u201d<\/p>\n<p> &#8211; <em>NOT THAT KIND OF GIRL &#8211; Lena Dunham<\/em><br \/>\nOriginalpost auf &#8222;was \u00fcbrig bleibt&#8220; http:\/\/ift.tt\/1psOe0R<br \/><i>&#8222;was \u00fcbrig bleibt&#8220; ist eine Sammlung, sind unterstrichene S\u00e4tze, gefundene Worte &#038; liegengebliebene Gedanken aus B\u00fcchern, die wir lesen und lieben.<\/i><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cI have been envious of male characteristics, if not the men themselves. I\u2019m jealous of the ease with which they seem to inhabit their professional pursuits: the lack of apologizing, of bending over backward to make sure the people around them are comfortable with what they\u2019re trying to do. The fact that they are so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[517,3681],"class_list":["post-5009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-leben","tag-bucher","tag-zitate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5009\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mokita.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}