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Book: Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger
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  1. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    As another philosopher, Myisha Cherry, has recently argued, "I want to convince you that there are types of anger that are not bad." In particular, she is interested in anger at injustice, regarding it as a wholly appropriate response to inequity. "Here are some of the features of the anger at injustice: it recognizes wrongdoing. This recognition is not mistaken; this person is not delusional or making this up in their head. It is not selfish. So when someone is angry at injustice they're not just concerned with themselves but also other people . . . this anger does not violate other people's rights and most importantly, it desires change."9
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  2. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    This book is about how anger works for men in ways that it does not for women, how men like both Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders can wage yelling campaigns and be credited with understanding--and compellingly channeling--the rage felt by their supporters while their female opponents can be jeered and mocked as shrill for speaking too loudly of forcefully into a microphone.
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  3. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    Men, including a former senator, told me of how shaken they were to hear from their wives and friends and mothers and coworkers about the ubiquity of sexual assault and harassment, how they had had their hair blown back by the anger they hadn't even known had been pent up.
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  4. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    Humor can be such a good way to hide anger at racist, sexist degradation and to challenge white male authority sideways-without risking as much direct blowback-that it perhaps shouldn't be a surprise that the comedian Tina Fey wrote jokes about Harvey Weinstein's sexual predation-lines about being pinned under Weinstein, and turning down sex with him-that aired on her show 30 Rock in 2012, years before his behavior could be reported straight. In 2013, during the Oscars, the white male comedian Seth MacFarlane also made a Weinstein joke-about the lead actress nominees no longer having to pretend to be attracted to the producer. After 2017 reporting revealed the extent of Weinstein's predation, MacFarlane explained that a friend of his, an actress who'd been harassed by Weinstein, had confided in him, prompting his joke. "Make no mistake," he said at the time, his one-liner had come "from a place of loathing and anger.
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  5. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    Of course it's not a waste to fight for justice, to work to right wrongs; but it is an extra tax on those already working from power deficits.
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  6. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    We are never forced to consider that rage-and not just stoicism, sadness, or strength-were behind the actions of the few women's heroes we're ever taught about in school, from Harriet Tubman to Susan B. Anthony. Instead, we are regularly fed and we regularly ingest cultural messages that suggest that women's rage is irrational, dangerous, or laughable.
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  7. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    Because while it surely felt cathartic to see it all laid bare, even briefly, the view did not undo the damage. We could not go back in time and have the story of Hillary Clinton be written by people who had not also pressed their erections into the shoulders of young women who'd worked for them. We could not retroactively resituate the women who'd left jobs and whole careers because the navigation of the risks, of the daily abuses, drove them out. We would not see the movies or the art that those women would have made, could not live by the laws that they might have enacted, could not read the news as they might have reported it, had they ever truly had a fair shake at getting to tell it their way. The tsunami of #metoo stories hadn't just revealed the way that men had grabbed and rubbed and punished and shamed women; it had also shown us that they had done it all while building the very world in which we still were forced to live.
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  8. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    The women's movement is a movement not of an oppressed minority, but of a subjugated majority. Majorities, by the very nature of their scale, are bound to include groups with varying-and warring-priorities and goals. By dint of size, a majority has the power over a minority-unless its foundations are eroded. The cheapest way to weaken and undermine a mass movement is to use its differences to divide it, and thus maintain power over it.
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  9. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    In figuring out how a woman might win within a system that had not been designed with her in mind, Clinton had set herself up to lose.
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  10. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    The other side of the anger is the hope. We wouldn't be angry if we didn't believe that it could be better.
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  11. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    Men literally have no idea how to even legitimately recognize or name our anger-largely because we don't either. This is new territory for everybody. Women's rage has been so sublimated for so long that there's simply no frame for what happens when it finally comes to the surface. -Sara Robinson
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  12. Rebecca Traister _ Good and Mad: The

    The ability to feel the anger and convey it to others is itself the transformative experience for many women. Women's anger spurs creativity and drives innovation in politics and social change, and it always has.
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