

So, there is in fact no surprise, when a women or marginalized people get angry, which is an agentic attribute, it got backlashed because it is against society’s expectations.

Historically women are expected to show communal attributes such as caring, sensitive, honest, understanding, emphatic, while men are expected to show agentic attributes such as passionate, doer, aggressive, competitive. However, when we go back to gender stereotypes theory, no wonder why it is like that. “It is like animal recognition”, she adds, “how powerful centuriated & marginalized people’s race can be at the situation of inequality & injustice.” So, men are rewarded for displaying it and women are penalized for doing the same." Soraya Chemalyīut why it is so offending when a woman gets angry? Is it because women’s anger is powerful? If it is so, why? Why we are discouraged taking women’s anger, marginalized, vulnerable people’s anger seriously and even teaching them to abstain from it? An author Rebecca Traister points out that all movements started with angry woman at their start and their anger have been propellant in so many social moves: Labor movement, civil rights movement, gay rights movement and so on. Anger confirms masculinity, and it confounds femininity. "People are more likely to get angry at women for being angry, whether we are at home, school, work or political arena. Even if only because they are simply not smiling. Black women are seen as angry from the moment they walk into a room. Cooper adds, that is amplified even more. And when we add a racial piece to that, Dr. When a woman gets angry, she is historical, crazy, being emotional and not having a good grasp of reality. When a white man gets angry, that is passionate, something we should reckon with and listen to. Britney Cooper, an author and associate professor at Rutgers University also points out how people react differently depending who the anger is coming from. “Culture after culture, anger is reserved as a moral property to boys & men.” Dr.

However, regardless of where we are, the anger is gendered, says Soraya Chemaly in her extremely resourceful TED talk. WHAT MELT DOWN? (Later Serena Williams' claims of sexism in the US Open final have been backed by the governing body of women's tennis.) Meanwhile some male tennis players’ anger has been perceived so passionate that they had been the theme of some advertisements.Īngry black man is viewed as a criminal angry white has a civic virtue. “She absolutely melted down.” one journalist says. Sounds about all right and even way too mature for a person who is disappointed and/or angry considering other examples. After a loss, she raised her voice, jabbed her finger at the umpire demanding an apology with the most mature language a one can speak with while angry and/or disappointed. And when I search more on why on earth women’s anger is so offending, not much but I have found some sources and tried to gather them to understand the issue more. Then I remembered the work of Liz Plan, an author and a journalist, “The transformative power of women's anger”.
