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Personal boundaries are healthy. I’m learning every so often you’ve got to re-draw that line in the sand when wind and water make it too faint. I have an unfortunately high tolerance for bullshit (I think being raised female in a patriarchal society does that to you), and I’m overdue to recalibrate my BS meter.
This also means embracing a lot of suppressed anger. Being angry is okay, which is a frightening thing for me to acknowledge. I’ve only seen anger manifested as violence, and seldom used as a productive emotion. There are emotions we code as “negative” that can ultimately be productive if channeled thoughtfully. Know that your feelings are allowed to take up space, and it’s okay if it inconveniences someone else a little. Take no shit. Listen to @lizzobeeating.
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Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Anger - Rebecca Traister
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With eloquence and fervour, Traister tracks the history of female anger as political fuel, as well as the history of caricaturing and delegitimising women’s anger. She explores this anger at both men and other women, and deconstructs society’s condemnation of female emotion and the impact of their resulting repercussions. .
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This book. It’s one of the best I’ve read this year, and one of my favourite of @thestackspod’s bookclub picks. Traister writes eloquently, comprehensively and angrily - I flew through this book (actually stayed up late to read it like it was a thriller), learned a heap and was inspired by so much more. .
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The book looks solely at the history of the USA, but it is still enlightening reading for those from elsewhere. Traister covers the suffragette movement, #metoo, Hillary Clinton, #blacklivesmatter, and media portrayals of and mainstream reactions to angry women. She also highlights the problem of white supremacy in the feminist movement - she writes many examples of black women’s activism that has been, and still is, written out of history by white women, and also looks at the particular space black women occupy in relation to rage. She also cites only female historians and activists throughout, which I thought was great. .
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It is easy to be overwhelmed by anger at the historical injustice women have faced, and despair at out ability to create a better future. But importantly, Traister points out that the media has always loved to focus disproportionately on the flaws in the feminist movement rather than its successes. Hearing @thestackspod’s male guest say this book changed his mind and understanding was actually ridiculously heartening. There is hope! And also I think, a sense of validation for any woman who’s felt angry and been ashamed about it. This book gets all the recommendations from me! .
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Emotions, like frustration, anger and rage, are appropriate responses when we find ourselves in increasingly threatening situations where we have to protect ourselves. .
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Anger is a natural and essential aspect of the fight response, an innate mechanism of self-protection. .
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Consider that for babies, a lack of emotional attunement is threatening to survival and babies will become distressed, frustrated, and will scream and protest in the face of inadequate nurturing. .
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Anger isn’t a bad emotion. There’s no such thing as a bad emotion. .
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But research shows us that (thanks to social constructs of our patriarchal society) angry women are often dismissed as being overly emotional, paranoid, and less credible then angry men. In other words, society tells us it’s ok for men to be angry, but that it’s an unacceptable and un-feminine emotion for women (and those assigned a female gender at birth) to express. .
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Additionally, at the time of a traumatic, overwhelming, or threatening experience, our anger can get coupled with the fear of the threat. In other words, our anger can get coded with instructions that tell us “this is dangerous”, and then we start to fear our anger itself.
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Remember: anger isn’t bad. It only becomes problematic when inappropriately directed at others as a coping strategy, or internalized and directed inwards as self-punishment. Anger as an emotion and especially as a response to threat or injustice is normal and healthy. Anger helps us survive!
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