female rage

a young age, girls are taught to control and suppress their emotions, to be constantly kind and perpetually pleasant. This expectation of emotional suppression and control is perfectly summed up with the quote from Maggie Royer, “woman’s first blood doesn’t come from between her legs but from biting her tongue”

It’s also true that expressing anger is, for a woman, to risk attracting actual material violence. Many of us assume well-practiced expressions of impassivity when being harassed, because shouting back, or even rolling our eyes, invites the possibility of physical escalation. It’s difficult to feel safe expressing anger, but it’s also unpleasant –... See more

It’s easy for the pain of women to be fetishized, she argued, but what’s less easy is to fetishize our anger.