Posted on 08/29/2017 9:05:06 PM PDT by 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.
(Excerpt) Read more at teenvogue.com ...
Written by someone with experience and an agenda.
I’ve apologized to my mother several times since my daughter entered her teen years. I wince just thinking of how I acted and my daughter is just like me.
If only the flood waters of Houston were as shallow as the writers at Teen Vogue.
Oh, yes! Sometimes I think it’s unfair, though: I have four daughters, and my mother had only the one ;-).
interesting, RBF seems to be all over the net now.
Yep. I consulted in Higher Ed for about 5 min, and was one of a very few people who weren't gobbling handfuls of pills. Happy pills, mostly, with a generous helping of painkillers thrown in.
And, it wasn't just the women.
“Most women are clueless emotional nutjobs. They are sucking down so many antidepressant drugs it’s not funny.
Men are opting out. Women are freaking out.”
It’s the hair hair dye chemicals. Goes straight to the brain.
Most women are broken
Classy.
TMI
That is a really harsh commentary.
However, I can’t disagree with you about antidepressant drugs. I am shocked at the large number of women I encounter who will casually admit to taking them.
Yoda said it's fear, but I think anger is the path to the dark side.
Open that door and step through it and things change. One becomes someone/something different. Worst case examples in my world have been the Jekyll to Hyde alcoholic drunks.
And, judging by the media and how they report and to whom, the anger seems to be getting worse, too, which is understandable.
Everywhere I look in our given over, "up is down, wrong is right", crazy, mixed up world, I see how building one's personal ideology around anything other than the highest Truth as one's standard is guaranteed to cause a lot of pain and anger.
Like you said, life is hard enough already.
Hey Laurie, make me a sammich.
They want all girls and women damaged mentally and physically.
That one made me laugh.
Sometimes, even if you have to cringe, it is hilarious.
Somebody has awesome aim.
The Care and Feeding of a Habit
A workman on a construction site went through the same routine every day at noon: He’d open his lunch box, peer inside, then curse and complain: “Peanut butter and jelly again! I hate peanut butter and jelly!”
This went on for weeks, until one day one of his co-workers suggested that if he hated peanut butter and jelly sandwiches so much, he should tell his wife.
“What wife?” he bellowed. “I’m not married. I fix my own lunch!”
The same thing is true, in one way or another, for all of us: Most of what we like least about our lives is of our own making.
If you’re sick and tired of something that’s happening in your life, look around and see, exactly, who is doing it to you.
Then remember that you do have a choice: You can keep eating peanut butter and jelly, or you can try something new. It’s up to you.
But don’t get hooked on baloney, either!
From:
http://www.doitnow.org/pages/224/parables/06.html
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