Posted on 11/20/2022 10:05:39 AM PST by Salman
Exhausted and overwhelmed, Gretchen Miller felt the frustration of the past three years rise up within her. On a whim the 54-year-old from Sydney posted a message to her local community Facebook group. “Does anyone else feel like screaming?” she asked.
The responses poured in. “I want to scream because of climate change and economic inequality,” one woman wrote. “Because of real estate agents and landlords,” said another. “My fiancé decided he didn’t love me anymore,” read one reply. Miller said she received more than 100 messages in the first hour.
From that callout, the Shout Sisters group was formed. A month later they met for the first time at an inner city park to bellow their frustrations into the Australian night.
n recent months, women-only “scream groups” like Miller’s have cropped up all over the world. Frustration, pandemic exhaustion and the pressures of life are common reasons women say they take part. Most are drawn to the idea of unleashing their anger without inhibition. It’s a freedom participants say is hard to find in a world that can be uncomfortable with women’s rage.
“Women want to scream,” Miller explains. “There are plenty of spaces for men to yell [but] we don’t often get to raise our voices [and] when we do we’re met with disapproval.”
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Wolves howling at the moon.
I’m having the same sort of trouble, but with box-end wrenches.
Reading crap like this makes me embarrassed to have a uterus.
There’s a reason it’s called “hysteria.”
No worries. Us men have our own idiosyncrasies. The differences are what makes us men and women.
Female voters in the USA vote overwhelmingly democrat, from statistics I have seen. Not as monolithic as black voters, but still majority for democrats. Even when female GOP candidates are on the ballot.
(Misspellings are intentional.)
Ew. So glad I don’t know and don’t have to listen to that person.
And she is surprised by that??
Calm down, ladies
There, fixed it
Have you two lovebirds picked out a china pattern yet?
It is complete BS. Western women sure have it good.
I keep my 10 mm socket attached to the tool box with a zip tie.
Salem witch trials?
I’d rather drink turpentine and piss on a brush fire than spend one second with Ann Archy.
We don’t often get to raise our voices
Yes dear yes dear..........................................
She's screaming at the clouds and because she has too much.
You’ll be under her window with a ukulele singing “Sweetheart of Sigma Chi” within a week while she flings out Forget-Me-Nots.
Oh my, I am so overcome I am blushing.
🤮
After you’ve bought the fifth caulking gun, you clean out the garage and find 6 of them.
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