Women’s uncontainable fury

I remember some years ago an elderly priest commenting on sin. As an aside, he said, as a priest hearing confessions year in, year out, in general men commit sins of lust and women sins of anger.

At the time, it was rather a surprise. Weren’t women kind, nurturing, sympathetic, patient, etc. etc.?

The priest’s words came back to me when the feminist-instigated conflict between men and women moved to centre stage. Not only could women fly into tempestuous fury but the way they expressed that fury was not in physical violence but in reputation destruction – total destruction. This was the theme of many of Jordan Peterson’s comments on the differences between men and women.

Since then others, particularly women, have commented on the uncontainable anger that often grips women. Janice Fiamengo made the comment below on the irrational fury that consumed many women following Donald Trump’s victory at the recent presidential election.

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All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump?

Thoughts on women and rage

Janice Fiamengo, Dec 15, 2024

br/>OPINION: Women's anger and the art of the feminist manifesto — The New  Political

Feminist uproar over Trump’s election was easy to predict, and not long in coming. Within ten days of the election, Clara Jeffery wrote in Mother Jones that “Women are furious—in a Greek mythology sort of way.” Taking examples from TikTok, Jeffery chronicled abundant “sorrow and disbelief and terror, but also incandescent rage,” which many women vowed to exorcise on men: “‘If his ballot was red, his balls stay blue,’” she quoted one.

In The New York Times, a 16-year-old girl, Naomi Beinart, charted her tumultuous emotions, which included a sense of betrayal because her male classmates had carried on with their lives on the day after the election, seemingly immune to the girls’ all-pervasive gloom and outrage. “Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair. We don’t even share the same future,” Beinart opined melodramatically.

No one with even a minimal acquaintance with social media can have missed the many similar, raging reactions: the heads being shaved, the death threats, the promised sex strikes, the fantasies of revenge against Trump-voting husbands. We are to understand that the re-election of a man rumored to lack sufficient pro-abortion commitment justifies thousands of self-recorded screams, imprecations, and poisoning plots.

At least one group of women gathered physically in Wisconsin to shout their angst and anger at Lake Michigan, and there have already been tentative (though apparently less enthusiastic than formerly) plans for a revival of the anti-Trump Women’s March protests, in which women with vulgar placards and pink hats exhibited their “collective rage.”

Women’s rage is all the rage.

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