Episode 43: Women Are Not Switzerland

From the time we are young girls, women are socialized to keep a calm exterior. It’s an unhealthy expectation, since we experience the full range of human emotion. In the Church and in the world, an angry man is perceived as being tough or powerful, but an angry woman earns a much less positive label. For Latter-day Saint women, meekness, niceness, and peace-keeping are valued traits. Being sad is okay, but being furious is not. In Episode 43, a guest shares her insights into the lack of space many women feel for the full expression of their emotions—even within themselves. Then Cynthia and Susan take a deeper dive on women and anger.

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Notes & Quotes:

Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, by Soraya Chemaly
Closing quote by Maya Angelou is from her 2006 interview with Dave Chapelle, Iconoclasts

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