But for women, rape is thousands of moments that we fold into ourselves over a lifetime. “Men learn to regard rape as a moment in time a discreet episode with a beginning, middle, and end. Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women's Anger If ever there was a time not to silence yourself, to channel your anger into healthy places and choices, this is it.” In anger, I have lived more fully, freely, intensely, sensitively, and politically. Your anger is a gift you give to yourself and the world that is yours. In them, anger has moved from debilitation to liberation. The women I admire most-those who have looked to themselves and the limitations and adversities that come with our bodies and the expectations that come with them-have all found ways to transform their anger into meaningful change. Reenvisioned, anger can be the most feminine of virtues: compassionate, fierce, wise, and powerful. Women, especially, will be told to set our anger aside in favor of a kinder, gentler approach to change. Watch carefully, because not everyone is asked to do this in equal measure. In the coming years, we will hear, again, that anger is a destructive force, to be controlled. The anger we have as women is an act of radical imagination. If it is poison, it is also the antidote. An opportunity for contemplation and self-awareness. It is survival, liberation, creativity, urgency, and vibrancy. How much anger is too much? Certainly not the anger that, for many of us, is a remembering of a self we learned to hide and quiet. In anger, you will find both ferocity and comfort, vulnerability and hurt.
It is both powerlessness and power, palliative and a provocation. It's a speech act, a social statement, an intention, and a purpose. It is reflective, visionary, and participatory. In anger, whether you like it or not, there is truth.Īnger is the demand of accountability, It is evaluation, judgment, and refutation. Anger is instrumental, thoughtful, complicated, and resolved. It is justice, passion, clarity, and motivation. Anger is freedom, independence, expansiveness, and entitlement. It is rational thought and irrational pain. It is intimacy, acceptance, fearlessness, embodiment, revolt, and reconciliation. It is communication, equality, and knowledge. “Anger is an assertion of rights and worth.
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