Various articles in today's Times about anger and specifically women's anger - quite timely!

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Can't post links just now as I'm on my way out but I can later or someone else is welcome to. There are about 4 different articles about anger, how to deal with it, how it is viewed etc, including one specifically about how anger has been viewed differently in women, and some history of "angry women". Some quite interesting bits, and it seems quite relevant at a time when we have had to get angry once again to defend our rights!

Thanks OP!

Here's one I could find:

Why the world needs angry women.

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-the-world-needs-angry-women-3sntvf3ztt_

I can't see anything like that in the app version, which is the only place I know how to do links.

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/d6237a4e-fd8f-11ea-8eac-e356e4cd0308?shareToken=85b9804d7c5a5e3afedca9eb01b049ff

Yes, that's the one about women specifically, thanks for posting the link!

Here are the others now I'm back, which are not so much focused on women in particular but it's touched on in places. I thought there was maybe one more but can only find these two now:

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/the-punchbag-theory-when-is-it-healthy-to-let-your-anger-show-b7ml5xjqs

www.thetimes.co.uk/article/anger-management-tips-eight-ways-to-cope-with-rage-075lb7wvh

The comments are incredibly depressing on the one about women's anger.

Proff, when you see comments that depress you, dive in and give as good as you get. Gloves are off. It can be lots of fun.

Thick skins needed in these times

Very very interesting. I judge myself very harshly for showing anger. I generally see anger as a loss of control. Not healthy.

By adulthood, women consistently report feeling pressure to restrict competitiveness and express positive emotions towards others. The psychologist Carol Tavris, the author of Anger: The Misunderstood Emotion, cites studies demonstrating that “when we are denied the expression of what we believe is our righteous anger, we end up feeling powerless and of lower status”.

This section speaks to me. My working life has been blighted by those feelings of powerlessness and feeling that I am not valued. It wouldn’t have required that I got my way on each occasion, but even feeling that I had been listened to and not dismissed would have been a big step forward. As it is, each negative experience hinders my ability to ask the next time. Now, at 50 I’m utterly cynical... and that’s considered bad too.