Oh FUCK YES to female rage!! I absolutely adore how you’ve covered this topic - women are told so often to ‘smile’ and ‘don’t be bossy’ and ‘be nice’ but what is this?? The 1940s?? I am quite often a little ball of raging feminist anger - it often spills over my cup onto the people around me, and I’ve long believed that this fire is something to be proud of, not shy away from. Women are not one dimensional smiling Barbies. Were actually pretty fucking angry most of the time 💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
Thank you Katie!!! YES!! I used to always think there was something wrong with me and thinking other girls didn’t get angry and it ate me up inside!! I actually think there’s something really exhilarating about allowing ourselves to feel the anger now
I have been saying this for so long. Women are made to believe that 'being angry' is not okay and an emotion we shouldn't feel. I feel so guilty and ashamed if I feel any bit of angry and start questioning 'what's wrong with me?'. All of those beliefs then hold you in this emotion which makes it much more harder to step out of the anger zone. As Soph Coombs said below, just announcing 'I'm angry' definitely makes me feel a sense of relief. Thank you for starting this conversation because it needs to be talked about more!! I've had an article in my drafts for so long that I need to write on 'exploring feminine rage in film' and this has definitely sparked some motivation in me to start writing it.
Yes!! The guilt is horrible!! I think accepting anger helps it go away anyway, but the embarrassment of it is absurd. You MUST write that piece, it sounds amazing - there would be so much to explore!! Thank you for reading Ciara, and I agree with everything you've said in this comment ♥️
Yes!!! I get the worst kind of angry - I set and let things fester until a tiny things sends it over the edge. I'm working on expressing my anger from the outset so that I can communicate and manage it in a much better way instead of reacting in a way I'm not proud of. It feels so freeing to just say "I'm angry". Like you say, we're allowed to feel all the emotions and without bad days we wouldn't know the good ones.
Love this Soph, I can bubble over sometimes as well, I think it comes from not wanting to let the anger out or upset anyone or even just the vanity of not losing composure! I think you're right, slowly diffusing the feeling means we can more rationally express how we feel, but we're absolutely still entitled to feel the range when it's necessary!
Feeling soooo much better now, writing this deffo helped me let off some steam! 😅
Yes to all of this! Every emotion and feeling is valid, and that includes anger. Leaning into (female) rage and letting yourself feel a full range of emotions really must be its own form of therapy.
Oh FUCK YES to female rage!! I absolutely adore how you’ve covered this topic - women are told so often to ‘smile’ and ‘don’t be bossy’ and ‘be nice’ but what is this?? The 1940s?? I am quite often a little ball of raging feminist anger - it often spills over my cup onto the people around me, and I’ve long believed that this fire is something to be proud of, not shy away from. Women are not one dimensional smiling Barbies. Were actually pretty fucking angry most of the time 💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️💁🏻♀️
Thank you Katie!!! YES!! I used to always think there was something wrong with me and thinking other girls didn’t get angry and it ate me up inside!! I actually think there’s something really exhilarating about allowing ourselves to feel the anger now
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I have been saying this for so long. Women are made to believe that 'being angry' is not okay and an emotion we shouldn't feel. I feel so guilty and ashamed if I feel any bit of angry and start questioning 'what's wrong with me?'. All of those beliefs then hold you in this emotion which makes it much more harder to step out of the anger zone. As Soph Coombs said below, just announcing 'I'm angry' definitely makes me feel a sense of relief. Thank you for starting this conversation because it needs to be talked about more!! I've had an article in my drafts for so long that I need to write on 'exploring feminine rage in film' and this has definitely sparked some motivation in me to start writing it.
Yes!! The guilt is horrible!! I think accepting anger helps it go away anyway, but the embarrassment of it is absurd. You MUST write that piece, it sounds amazing - there would be so much to explore!! Thank you for reading Ciara, and I agree with everything you've said in this comment ♥️
Yes!!! I get the worst kind of angry - I set and let things fester until a tiny things sends it over the edge. I'm working on expressing my anger from the outset so that I can communicate and manage it in a much better way instead of reacting in a way I'm not proud of. It feels so freeing to just say "I'm angry". Like you say, we're allowed to feel all the emotions and without bad days we wouldn't know the good ones.
Hope you're feeling a little better now xxx
Love this Soph, I can bubble over sometimes as well, I think it comes from not wanting to let the anger out or upset anyone or even just the vanity of not losing composure! I think you're right, slowly diffusing the feeling means we can more rationally express how we feel, but we're absolutely still entitled to feel the range when it's necessary!
Feeling soooo much better now, writing this deffo helped me let off some steam! 😅
Yes to all of this! Every emotion and feeling is valid, and that includes anger. Leaning into (female) rage and letting yourself feel a full range of emotions really must be its own form of therapy.
Yes! Female Rage the Musical is inside all of us ✨