We can't really control if we feel angry or not. "A lot of studies really indicate that men are much more likely to associate anger with power and women to associate it with powerlessness, and I think that's because how we tend to experience this emotion. On the idea that "anger is filled with information" "When we shut down somebody's anger we are literally silencing the knowledge they have and saying it's not valuable to us as a social resource." Soraya Chemaly And so I provide examples of that in the book and talk both the ways it hurts us and the ways it can so powerfully help us." I want to be able to consider the ways in which this emotion, which we all have as humans, is equally leverage-able for good. "What I really want to focus on is we have a sense of that in our culture, we have an emotional culture that thinks of anger as destructive and as negative when in fact it's the way we perceive and manage anger that yields these bad effects. On understanding anger as a force for positivity And we end up being powerless in that situation."
They are not penalized in the same way as when women do it, it actually transgresses, so we violate gender norms. And so there are rewards for doing that, they gain power from doing that even if it's ugly and uncomfortable and causes people distress. I mean, study after study after study shows that when men display anger, it reaffirms gender norms, it reaffirms masculinity. We're not misunderstanding the situation. "We really understand from a very early age what the risks and costs of our displaying full emotions, and particularly this emotion, are. On the double standard when it comes to expressing anger and displaying emotion Soraya Chemaly, writer, activist and author of " Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger." Director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project, which aims to curb online abuse, increase media and tech diversity, and expand women’s freedom of expression.
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