How to Be a Person (3 page)
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Authors: Lindy West
How to Take a Compliment
How to Be a Guest at a Party
How to Host a Party
On Toilets
How to Actually Do Laundry
11. WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT FOOD
How to (Not) Be a Foodie
So You’re a Vegetarian!
A Really Easy, Really Pretty, Really Good Soup You Can Make With a Butternut Squash
How to Make Tacos
How to Make Very Tasty Pasta
How to Make the World’s Best Macaroni and Cheese (With a Monogram on It!)
How to Make an Impressive Entire Roasted Chicken
Make Your Own Coffee!
Organic Food: WTF?
12. WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT MUSIC, BOOKS, AND ART
How to Be Into Music Without Annoying Everyone
What the Albums in Your Dorm Room Say About You
What the Art Posters in Your Dorm Room Say About You
Everything You Need to Know to Successfully Flirt With a Film Nerd
Spoiler Alerts for the Big Novels So You Can Flirt With English Nerds as If You’ve Already Read Them
Books You Should Avoid
13. WHAT NO ONE ELSE WILL TELL YOU ABOUT POLITICS
Getting Started
How to Know If You’re a Republican or a Democrat
Take It Easy on Tattooing Yourself in Your Beliefs
When It’s Okay to Yell at Someone About Politics
What No One Else Will Tell You About Feminism
Guess What? You Are a Feminist
First-Wave Feminism: Maybe We Could Be Citizens Now?
Second-Wave Feminism: Maybe You Could Stop Raping Us, Please?
Third-Wave Feminism: Maybe I Like Rape! Shut Up! Maybe I Don’t! Shut Up!
Postfeminism: Sexism Is Dead! Long Live Sexism!
Stop Victim-Blaming!
Stop Slut-Shaming!
Gender Is a Social Construct: What
ARE
You!?
Women Do Not Exist for the Purposes of Your Boner
Male Privilege: It Is Real, and It Is Totally Bogus
A Final Note: Yes, Indeed!
14. SOME FINANCIAL ADVICE COURTESY OF THE BIBLE
Eschew Credit Cards
Get Thee Unto a Credit Union
The Bible Further Suggests That You Get a Job
Jesus Christ on a Bicycle, Don’t Buy a Car
The Golden Rule and Beer
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