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How I’m rejecting the pressure to be ‘ladylike’

I’m done conforming to gender expectations

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July 18, 2021 at 9:30 a.m. EDT
(Hyesu Lee for The Washington Post)

I was always trying hard to become something I thought I should be: “ladylike.” Lately, though, I have learned to just be myself, which has taken a lot of courage. Now, I’m truly happy being “unladylike.”