Most Women You Know Are Angry — and That’s All Right

teen vogue ^ | Aug 2 2017 | Laurie Penny

[Mandingo Conservative]

In this op-ed, writer and journalist Laurie Penny, the author of the new book Bitch Doctrine: Essays for Dissenting Adults, explores female anger — why we hide it, why it's feared, how we can use it to change the world...Many women you know are angrier than you can possibly imagine. Most are pretty good at hiding it, having been taught to do so since childhood...Case in point: period jokes. How many times have you heard people dismiss and belittle a woman who dares to express emotion by telling her she’s probably menstruating? How many times have men in power — including Donald Trump — tried to push back and put down women who criticize them by implying that our opinions are nothing more than a mess of dirty, bloody hormones, none of it rational, none of it real? These jokes are never just jokes. They’re a control strategy...The patriarchy is so scared of women's anger that eventually we learn to fear it, too.

[GBA]

Yeah, about that...as a single man, who would rather not be single, therein lies my problem.

Wisdom says:

It is better to live in a corner of a roof than in a house shared with a contentious woman.
Proverbs 21:9

Yep, no doubt about that. As a rogue male, my guiding principle is:

It is better to dwell in the wilderness, than with a contentious and an angry woman.
Proverbs 21:19

Amen! Sad, but true.

[John Milner]

I’m a man and I’m angry that getting smacked in the balls is considered ‘funny’. Ever watch America’s Funniest Home Videos? Ever see a segment of women getting kicked in the crotch? Me neither.

Now you know why men are angry. And living our lives of quiet desperation.

Damn, this is just too easy.

[Trillian]

I’m sure all teen girls and young women are reading teen vogue. /s

[Bullish]

Oh good Gawd, grow the hell up Laurie.

[Bullish]

Most are pretty good at hiding it

Not ANY of the many I've been involved with.

[Bullish]

I guess some women are just bound to become Jane Hathaways.

[yldstrk]

I was married to an angry man, there was nothing that didn’t piss him off

[Tax-chick]

I have a theory about this: If you’re a reader of Teen Vogue, you’re probably a teenaged girl. That means your mother and most of the other women you know are the mothers of teenaged girls. THAT is why they are angry.

[KC_Lion]

For your interest.

[mountn man]

Years ago, a buddy of mine had a girlfriend, who I could always tell what time of the month it was.

It was the only time she was actually a nice human being.

WAFC

[mountn man]

A number of years ago I dated a gal, who after we started dating, always complained. Usually about work.

Day after day after day after day, complaining about the same person or people doing the same things. NEVER doing anything to address the situation.

One day on the phone, she was extremely angry about something at work. Finally, I made some lighthearted remark. Which REALLY set her off.

Why was I making jokes? The situation was SERIOUS!!!! DAMNIT!!!!

I told her I was just trying to lighten the mood and trying to make her laugh a little.

Her response was "I WANT TO BE ANGRY"

My response was "Well I don't."
"If you're in a bad mood and want help getting out of it, call me."
If you're in a bad mad AND WANT to stay there, call someone else".

Then hung up.

I think we went out once or twice afterwards. But the complaining attitude never changed and I decided I wasn't putting up with that crap any longer.

Saw a poster on a teachers door one time. It said:
"Everybody brings joy into a room. Some when they enter. Others when they leave."

Happiness is a decision. One that needs to be made everyday.

Life is hard enough, without needlessly adding angry people into it.

(see my tagline)

[cgbg]

On the other hand, you used to have women like my great-grandmother, who married at sixteen, worked her fingers to the bone as a poor farmer’s wife, bore eleven children and buried three of them In their childhood, raised my mother from infancy after my grandmother died in childbirth, struggled with cancer on and off for the last twenty years of her life and who, by all accounts, had the patience and love of a saint.

Then you also had women like my grandmother, married young, never worked a day in her life because men always took care of her every need, never had any illness, smiled every day, and live to be 106. That was the grandma who politely explained to me "never believe what you see on television--there is no way we went to the moon". :-)

[grobdriver]

I guess all those angry women could "become" men.

Think of the payback!!

[Chode]

poor little Miss Used and abused... feh

[Pollster1]

Sometimes it's funny:

Anti-Trump, anti-American, anti-police terrorist tosses a tear gas canister back at the police and gets a pepper ball right where it will do the most good.

[Chickensoup]

My son has spoken about women he has dated who are seething under the surface and one glass of wine can turn them into volcanos.

Young successful, attractive, Christian girls too, for the most part.

They are angry, pushy, and vulgar when they become undone.

[Chickensoup]

In Teen Vogue?

[Caipirabob]

All I can think of is the old classic;

"Put another log on the fire, cook me up some bacon and some beans..."

Lol...now really, I've seen the "angry" thing. It's a joke. The moment you see a hint of it, start your exit plan.

There are too many wonderful women out there who are not insane or infected with the left's twisted version of reality to get caught up in the nightmares of some maladjusted liberal woman. Forget them and move on.

[sockmonkey]

** In Teen Vogue? **

http://www.teenvogue.com/story/anal-sex-what-you-need-to-know

[Enterprise]

How long have you been washing cars MORON? I told you I wanted Pine Scent, not Cherrywood.