Women 'Take Up Space' - Post something you're good at without putting yourself down.

[JeanneDeMontbaston]

I saw this on twitter recently: you tweet something you're damn good at, without apologising or getting into false modesty.

I was feeling a bit down today reading all the threads about how feminism is too this or too that, too academic or too humourless or not good enough at explaining itself - and I thought maybe it'd be good to have a more positive thread.

Rules: if you post a non-serious 'I'm so good at eating my bodyweight in stale Easter Eggs/procrastinating on MN' type thing, this counts as false modesty and you need to post something else too!

I'll start - I'm a really good teacher.

So am I Jeanne!

Awesome. We rock.

Sorry that was not very well articulated. I am also a really good therapist (Hope I am I allowed two? !!)

I'm good at sounding very knowledgeable about topics that I know basically nothing about. This is necessary in my job - people often need to be soothed but not really informed so an air of competence and authority is important!

(Important: I'm not a HCP, don't panic!)

I've loved this on Twitter. So many women breaking social rules around women being silent about their talents!

I am a really good counsellor. I get a great deal of pleasure out of holding people's hands as they find their way through their difficulties.

You're allowed two, three, however many.

sweet, you're coming perilously close to explaining it away with that.

This is a really good idea Jeanne. Do you think often women will often not do this as 'boasting' is seen as unfeminine?

I am excellent at time management and tracking projects. I can also make a pretty good fruit crumble.

Oops.

I shall try again.

I'm good at coming up with left field ideas that no one else has thought of, but that turn out to be Very Useful.

(No further qualifiers )

I'm excellent at shagging and bjs not to put myself down.

YY, lily, that was the original premise - that women tend to explain things away, or apologize. And also that we perhaps just don't celebrate enough that we are good at things.

All of these are great to read.

I love that morethan.

I'm good at shagging too. Or I was, back in the day.

I'm a good boss and, you know what, I'm a good mother. There. I've said it. I haven't even caveated it with "I'm not perfect" or "I'm too shouty".

I'm also good at swimming and cooking. And I have awesome pop knowledge. I am a brilliant asset on pub quiz teams for that round. I would have been brilliant on Name That Tune. .

I am extremely good at getting on with a wide range of people, even very difficult/awkward individuals. This has come in pretty handy in the academic world My diplomacy skills are second to none.

I'm very talented in the branch of applied arts that I work in.

(not that you'd have known that at a recent professional meet up- all I saw was the backs of a lot of tall beardy blokes telling each other how great they were. Total sausage party. OK, maybe it was that they didn't know me. Or maybe my genitalia face didn't fit. But it left me determined to have more of a cocky attitude, just like them, and to tell everybody how great I am more- again, just like them).

I am good mother and a dog walker. Efficient chief at home and good at gardening.
I don't play games with people and pretend that I like them if I don't.

I am really good at solving technical problems.

I am resourceful.

Great idea. We all need to celebrate our achievements without shame.

I'm really good at my job and am very organised
I'm a good mum and friend, I'm loving and have a high level of empathy.

at sausage party!

Another Really Good Teacher here!
I find it infuriating when someone posts a thread after not getting a job and gets snidey comments. They explain how they more than fit the criteria in XYZ ways and some bastard writes "maybe they preferred the other candidate's modesty" or similar. I'm all for women stating their strengths unapologetically!

I am very good at being concise.

I used to be good at breast feeding.

I can be very funny if I feel like it and I'm really clever.

I am good at having an orgasm.

I am good at ironing. And swimming. I have pretty good general knowledge - I know a little about a lot of things. I am also a whizz at parallel parking. And when I was at primary school, I could name pretty much any seashell you could find on British shores, but I would have to do some revision to get back to that level of knowledge again.