In both shootings, instead of discussing the fact that the shooters targeted women, the media instead chose to play up the tired lone wolf and mental illness angles.like always. In the Ecole Polytechnique shooting, Marc Lépine shot 28 people and killed 14 women before killing himself. The story reminded me of the 1989 mass shooting at the Ecole Polytechnique in Montreal, which I read about in the book I Hate Feminists! by Mélissa Blais.

Chemaly begins the chapter “The Politics of Denial” with the story of Elliot Rodger, who targeted women in a 2014 mass shooting where he shot 20 and killed six people in Isla Vista, California. That we would no longer put up with being represented by people who were failing us.”įrom harassment and rape to intimate partner violence and murder, everyone largely fails women in the criminal justice system with these crimes-Olivia Benson won’t save us IRL. “The march served an important purpose for women everywhere, showing us all that we could and would defend ourselves and our interests.

Chemaly perfectly describes the power behind the Women’s March that occurred upon Trump’s inauguration: These movements show the greatest potential for women’s anger-detailing the powerful work this powerful emotion can accomplish if it’s used as a tool for something better-instead of being avoided and repressed. But the women's work that actually needs to be done by us is discussed in chapters about the #MeToo movement and women organizing to resist Trump before and after his election, both pivotal moments in herstory. That is, all the extra work women do as caregivers for children, family members, and significant others-aka women’s work. Throughout the book, Chemaly discusses a laundry list of issues contributing to women’s anger.including the laundry. So what do you do with all that pent-up anger? In Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, writer and activist Soraya Chemaly describes the myriad reasons women have to be so angry over the course of the book’s ten chapters, and in the end offers readers a few tips on how to channel that anger for the greater good.

Whether we hide it from the world or shout it from our laptops, the anger never goes away, and finding peace of mind seems basically impossible when faced with the problems women endure. It’s an easy time to be a mad woman in Trump’s America, from reproductive politics to “grab her by the pussy” and everything in between-catcalling, harassment, intimate partner abuse, rape, diet culture, the wage gap, motherhood.the list goes on and on.

Rage Becomes Her by Soraya Chemaly