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 ...
Laurie, Laurie, Laurie, take a Midol, change your tampon. You’ll feel better in a couple of days.
I’m always happy. :)
Well said.
This article was such a letdown after last month’s how to on anal sex. Just not as interesting as the informative, “there will be poop, butt plugs, and it will hurt so be hip, and embrace it” read was.
Other then that I am pretty mellow.
I can’t speak to the state of the female psyche overall, but I’m pretty sure that reading Teen Vogue is a good way for neurotic, screwed up people to get worse, not better.
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.
Seriously?
WE all make choices in life.
These women can choose to be angry, choose to go through life with a chip on their shoulder, and be angry with the men in their lives, for perceived issues.
And as regards the men, the men can choose to exit stage right rather than deal with the difficulties presented by being involved with such women.
“No means yes....yes means anal”.
I think that’s how it goes.
Yes, but why does he have to turn The Five on?
Why can't he watch a nice ball game?
And this bitchy writer's point would be?
My ex never hid her anger. If I’d shot her when I first wanted, I’d be out by now. And I’m pragmatic, not angry.
Be angry all you like, darlings. Your smarter sisters are having their pick of the men you’re spurning. And they’re all laughing at you together.
Was really very good, now I know what to look for.
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.
“As I’ve grown up, I’ve stayed angry”
Yeah, brag about staying angry.
You’ll never grow up, Petra Pan.
I bet Laurie Penny is just a JOY to spend time with.
I do not know why women are angry. They cook an clean for me and make me a sandwich. You think they would be happy!
BTW anyone know the cure for arsenic poisoning?
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