{"id":2845,"date":"2014-01-14T17:20:31","date_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:20:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=2845"},"modified":"2014-01-14T17:20:31","modified_gmt":"2014-01-14T17:20:31","slug":"girls-are-trained-to-say-i-wrote-this-but-its","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=2845","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Girls are trained to say, \u2018I wrote this, but it\u2019s probably really stupid.\u2019 Well, no, you wouldn\u2019t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, \u2018I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.\u2019 Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don\u2019t go, \u2018Thank you\u2019, you go, \u2018No, you\u2019re insane.\u2019<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<div class='attribution'>\n<p>Lena Dunham, in an interview with <em>The Guardian <\/em>(<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/culture\/2014\/jan\/11\/lena-dunham-called-fat-hideous-and-i-lived\">x<\/a>)<\/p>\n<p>And then we\u2019re told we don\u2019t know how to accept compliments. You can\u2019t just say \u201cThanks,\u201d you have to make sure it\u2019s a thanks with humility!<\/p>\n<p>(via <a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/metteivieharrison.tumblr.com\/\">metteivieharrison<\/a>)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Girls are trained to say, \u2018I wrote this, but it\u2019s probably really stupid.\u2019 Well, no, you wouldn\u2019t write a novel if you thought it was really stupid. Men are much more comfortable going, \u2018I wrote this book because I have a unique perspective that the world needs to hear.\u2019 Girls are taught from the age of seven that if you get a compliment, you don\u2019t go, \u2018Thank you\u2019, you go, \u2018No, you\u2019re insane.\u2019 Lena Dunham, in an interview with The Guardian (x) And then we\u2019re told we don\u2019t know how to accept compliments. You can\u2019t just say \u201cThanks,\u201d you have <span class=\"excerpt-dots\">&hellip;<\/span> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/?p=2845\"><span class=\"more-msg\">Continue reading &rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-quote","hentry","category-uncategorized","post_format-post-format-quote"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p13tCM-JT","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fierce.jnfr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}