Fragile Democracy I: The Invalidation Of Women's Anger And The Arrest Of Resego Kgosidintsi

Soraya Chemaly on The Power of Women’s Anger talks about the ways in which women’s anger is often seen as an exaggeration and misrepresentation, which makes them rude and unlikeable.

She says, especially for women and girls we are taught that anger is silent, isolating and destructive. This is despite the fact that anger is a signal emotion which warns us of indignity, threat, insult or harm. Yet we are taught that it is an emotion reserved for men and boys.

My question then follows, if we have so gendered this emotion, what happens, when the indignity, threat insult and harm are not aimed at men and boys? What happens to the signal at that point? The reaction has been the intimidation of those women who have chosen to express their anger at this.

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