![]() ![]() It was a very quick read, and let me experience a whirlwind of emotion. This collection includes essays from 22 incredibly diverse women, and a forward from the editor. Feminist non-fiction is one of my favourite genres, and I’m always looking for more. ![]() So, when I first saw this collection of essays, I knew I had to read it. ![]() It’s a terrible experience, being told you’re not allowed to yell when you’re mad, or that “you’re too emotional” when others around you (men) are acting how you want to act. I’ve spent a lot of therapy sessions talking about my anger: why it’s there, why I’m ashamed of it, and why I’m hesitant to let myself feel angry. If you’ve ever been called any of the above, or been told that you’re “not acting like a lady,” welcome to the club. Millennia of conditioning is hard to unlearn.” ![]() They’ve been labeled hysterical, crazy, dangerous, delusional, bitter, jealous, irrational, emotional, dramatic, vindictive, petty, hormonal they’ve been shunned, ignored, drugged, locked up, and killed kept in line with laws and threats and violence, and with insidious, far-reaching lies about the very nature of what it means to be a woman-that a woman should aspire to be a lady, and that ladies don’t get angry. “Throughout history, angry women have been called harpies, bitches, witches, and whores. ![]()
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