![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() "She would have been dismissed as hysterical and hormonal and irrational."Īctivists hold a protest and rally in opposition to U.S. The kind of anger that he displayed, and the other men in that room displayed, is a social entitlement." Rage in men is valorized and seen as the sign of leadership.Īnd what if Ford had yelled, cried and barked at senators the way he had? "That would have been perceived as incredibly hostile and transgressive," Chemaly said. Kavanaugh was "petulant and indignant," Chemaly said, at the idea "that a woman could hold him accountable in a public court and call into question his status. She points to the contrast in demeanour and tone of Brett Kavanaugh's testimony and that of his accuser Christine Blasey Ford. Women's anger, Chemaly says, is an affront to that traditional expectation. To attract men, to disarm them, to manage them, to comfort them." And without even realizing you were doing it, you learned to make yourself likable. Writing about these books in The Nation, Katha Pollitt argues that women are taught from the start to be pleasing and deferential to men: "From the moment you were born, you were told in a thousand ways that men liking you was the real measure of your value in the world. ![]() Rage Becomes Her joins other recent releases, including Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad and Brittney Cooper's Eloquent Rage, which encourage women to lean into their anger. Soraya Chemaly is the author of "Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger." (Soraya Chemaly/Simon & Schuster) ![]()
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