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wackyteen
12/07/22 12:18:41 PM
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Are they?


https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-63874001


An annual poll by Gallup suggests that women, on average worldwide, have been getting angrier over the past 10 years. Why might this be?
Two years ago Tahsha Renee was standing in her kitchen when a deep, dark, hollow scream emerged from the depths of her lungs. It took her by surprise.
"Anger has always been an emotion that's easy for me to tap into," she says. But this was like nothing she had felt before.
It was in the midst of the pandemic and she had had enough. She'd spent the previous 20 minutes walking around her house listing aloud everything that made her angry.
But after the scream she felt an intense physical release.
Tahsha, a hypnotherapist and life coach, has since been gathering women from all over the world on zoom to talk about everything that gives them rage and then scream it out.
According to a BBC analysis of 10 years of data from the Gallup World Poll, women are getting angrier.
Every year the poll surveys more than 120,000 people in more than 150 countries asking, among other things, what emotions they felt for a lot of the previous day.
When it comes to negative feelings in particular - anger, sadness, stress and worry - women consistently report feeling these more frequently than men.
The BBC's analysis has found that since 2012 more women than men report feeling sadness and worry, though both genders have been steadily trending upwards.
When it comes to anger and stress however, the gap with men is widening. In 2012 both genders reported anger and stress at similar levels. Nine years later women are angrier - by a margin of six percentage points - and more stressed too. And there was a particular divergence around the time of the pandemic.

That doesn't surprise Sarah Harmon, a therapist in the US. In early 2021 she got a group of female clients together to stand in a field and scream.
"I'm a mom of two young kids who was working from home and there was just this intense, low-grade frustration that was building to complete rage," she says.
A year later she took to the field again. "That was the scream that went viral," she says. It was picked up by a journalist in one of her online mum's groups and suddenly reporters were calling from all over the world.
Sarah believes she tapped into something that women everywhere were feeling, an intense frustration that the burden of the pandemic was falling disproportionately on them.
A 2020 survey of almost 5,000 parents in heterosexual relationships in England, by the Institute for Fiscal Studies, found that mothers took on more of the domestic responsibilities during lockdown than fathers. As a result, they reduced their working hours. This was the case even when they were the higher earner in the family.
In some countries the difference in the number of women and men who say they felt anger the previous day is much higher than the global average.
In Cambodia, the gap was 17 percentage points in 2021 while in India and Pakistan it was 12.
Psychiatrist Dr Lakshmi Vijayakumar believes this is the result of tensions that have emerged as more women in these countries have become educated, employed and economically independent.
"At the same time, they are tethered down by archaic, patriarchal systems and culture," she says. "The dissonance between a patriarchal system at home and an emancipated woman outside of home causes a lot of anger."
Every Friday evening at rush hour in Chennai in India, she witnesses this dynamic in action.
"You see the men relax, going to a tea shop, having a smoke. And you find the women hurrying to the bus or train station. They're thinking about what to cook. Many women start chopping vegetables on their way back home on the train."
In the past, she says, it wasn't considered appropriate for women to say they are angry, but that's changing. "Now there is a little bit more ability to express their emotions, so the anger is more."

The pandemic's effect on women's work may also be having an impact. Before 2020 there was slow progress on women's participation in the workforce, according to Ginette Azcona, a data scientist at UN Women. But in 2020 it stalled. This year the number of women in work is projected to be below 2019 levels in 169 countries.
"We have a sex-segregated labour market," says US-based feminist author Soraya Chemaly, who wrote about anger in her 2019 book, Rage Becomes Her.
She sees much of pandemic related burn-out happening in female-dominated industries like care.
"It's pseudo-maternal work and poorly paid. These people register very high levels of repressed, suppressed and diverted anger. And it has a lot to do with being expected to work tirelessly. And with no kind of legitimate boundaries.
"Similar dynamics are often found in heterosexual marriage," she says.
In the US, much has been written about the burden of the pandemic on women but results from the Gallup World Poll don't indicate that women there are angrier than men.
"Women in the US feel very deep shame about anger," says Soraya Chemaly, and may be more likely to report their anger as stress or sadness.
Perhaps significantly, American women do report higher levels of stress and sadness than men.
That's true in other places too. Many more women than men said they were stressed in Brazil, Uruguay, Peru, Cyprus and Greece. In Brazil almost six in 10 women said they had felt stressed for much of the previous day, compared with just under four in 10 men.
But Tahsha Renee thinks many women in the US and elsewhere have now reached a place where they are able to say, "No more!"
"In a way that's actually facilitating change. And they're using their anger to do it," she says.
"You need rage and anger," agrees Ginette Azcona at UN Women. "Sometimes you need these, to shake things up - and have people pay attention and listen."


I dunno, why might that be, BBC?

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sugarysyntax
12/07/22 12:19:45 PM
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ppl in general are getting madder more quickly. i think it's because of attention span impact caused by smartphones. they fragment attention span and make people more irritable.
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Dragon56
12/07/22 12:22:16 PM
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sugarysyntax posted...
ppl in general are getting madder more quickly. i think it's because of attention span impact caused by smartphones. they fragment attention span and make people more irritable.
Woke culture as well. Not that I have any problem with being woke, the way some people go about it leads to anger.

Also, I don't blame women for being angrier. Men are trash.
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Jagr_68
12/07/22 12:24:50 PM
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Inflation, govt corruption, lack of adequate rest/time off, higher cost of living, financial hardships, etc.

Take your pick as to why women or people altogether would be angrier these days --_--

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ellis123
12/07/22 12:25:55 PM
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UnfairRepresent
12/07/22 12:26:35 PM
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Jagr_68 posted...
Inflation, govt corruption, lack of adequate rest/time off, higher cost of living, financial hardships, etc.

Take your pick as to why women or people altogether would be angrier these days --_--
This

Blaming "smart phones and woke culture" is insanity

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famfam
12/07/22 12:27:20 PM
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people are speaking up more about things that have been problems for decades/centuries, that's literally it

people were already mad, but now they can more openly talk about these issues
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Questionmarktarius
12/07/22 12:29:07 PM
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Dragon56
12/07/22 12:29:50 PM
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UnfairRepresent posted...
Blaming "smart phones and woke culture" is insanity
Not really. 24/7 access to negative news and partisan hostility can certainly cause brain rot and anger.
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VampireCoyote
12/07/22 12:29:51 PM
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Everyone is getting angrier

because of everything

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Kaldrenthebold
12/07/22 12:30:38 PM
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The era of real peace is coming to an end and everyone's getting mad. The world is in for a very interesting and tragic few decades.

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Questionmarktarius
12/07/22 12:31:13 PM
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Kaldrenthebold posted...
The era of real peace is coming to an end and everyone's getting mad. The world is in for a very interesting and tragic few decades.
Time to invest in liquor futures.
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UnfairRepresent
12/07/22 12:33:45 PM
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Dragon56 posted...
Not really. 24/7 access to negative news and partisan hostility can certainly cause brain rot and anger.
See I disagree with this

If people could afford their homes, hobbies, save money, their kids could go to good schools, there weren't mass shootings and other nonsense

Reading about "negative news" wouldn't bother people so much

You see that rich right wing people don't give a shit about negative news because they're set for life

The anger is because the standard of living and finicial crisis is so high. People can't afford their homes or heating or healthcare and their kids are getting screwed over

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Ivynn
12/07/22 12:46:10 PM
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ellis123 posted...
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lmao

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Cleo_II
12/07/22 12:51:05 PM
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Lets see. Violence against women is on the rise since the pandemic. Our rights are being attacked and stripped away. Discrimination is up. Were carrying a larger load by working full time but still taking on the majority of household and child duties. Gee I wonder why were angrier.
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SpiritSephiroth
12/07/22 12:58:02 PM
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Everyone is getting angrier.

Social media is turning men and women against each other, when they should be working together (As we've always done throughout the ages). Shitty politicians and wars bringing more anxiety to peoples lives. Double standards for the rich vs poor, economy and taxes literally fucking everyone over that isn't the 1% over, ect ect.

Edit: Forgot the most important thing. Our rights being taken away.

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Nosferatu_Zodd
12/07/22 12:59:51 PM
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Maybe they aren't getting enough BBC

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AlephZero
12/07/22 1:05:59 PM
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list BBC sluts in gaming

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-BrokenSpiral-
12/07/22 2:43:27 PM
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Angrier and in the case of online women, very questionable. I remember some girl user on CE posting something like "What women go through is essentially slavery. You don't own us." related to a woman's solitary right to abortion.
And all is fine.
But a similar viewpoint on reddit? That person got torn the fuck apart from both pro-life and pro-choice people alike because they were so stupid to think it's anywhere near what slaves had to go through.
What an idiot lmao
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rexcrk
12/07/22 2:45:38 PM
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Dragon56 posted...
Not really. 24/7 access to negative news and partisan hostility can certainly cause brain rot and anger.


Definitely this, to a degree. While it certainly isnt the only reason, it absolutely does not help.

Hell, there are a few users here who seem to relish doom-scrolling / reading / watching / posting despite how bad it is mentally.


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IShall_Run_Amok
12/07/22 2:46:16 PM
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Because they are paying attention and don't live in a democracy.

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BloodMoon7
12/07/22 2:48:29 PM
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They were always angrier. I'd rather fight 100 men than 1 angry woman tbh

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garan
12/07/22 2:56:04 PM
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Our decadent society is falling apart, so it's no surprise that people are unhappy.
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gunplagirl
12/07/22 2:56:14 PM
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Nope.

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IShall_Run_Amok
12/07/22 3:12:06 PM
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AlephZero posted...
list BBC sluts in gaming
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Prestoff
12/07/22 3:13:25 PM
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ellis123 posted...
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lol

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frozenstar
12/07/22 3:18:57 PM
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Isn't everyone?

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DoesntMatter
12/07/22 3:25:28 PM
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Tahsha, a hypnotherapist and life coach
maybe she's so angry cuz she realized that she picked a profession which is utterly useless and contributes nothing practical to society

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Cobra1010
12/07/22 3:33:48 PM
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I know exactly why but i wont say it on here

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bsp77
12/07/22 3:36:54 PM
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Cobra1010 posted...
I know exactly why but i wont say it on here
Doubtful

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Dakimakura
12/07/22 8:34:26 PM
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ima mad as hell and aint gonna take it no more

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Anony1125
12/07/22 8:36:29 PM
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has anyone touched on mind control lasers yet?

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PrettyBoyMarth
12/07/22 10:57:24 PM
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Cobra1010 posted...
I know exactly why but i wont say it on here

There is a clear cut answer, but you won't get it on CE, like all majority left leaning communities on the internet, they don't live in reality. There is the actual truth that will get you modded because reality hurts the feefees and then there is CE's truth, the untrue answer they have created in their mind to believe is the truth.

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Zikten
12/07/22 11:07:42 PM
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I'm not a woman but I understand being angry when part of the government of your country is working to oppress you
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Kakapo
12/07/22 11:11:54 PM
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PrettyBoyMarth posted...
There is a clear cut answer, but you won't get it on CE, like all majority left leaning communities on the internet, they don't live in reality. There is the actual truth that will get you modded because reality hurts the feefees and then there is CE's truth, the untrue answer they have created in their mind to believe is the truth.

Ahh, is that the lonely cry of the silly sausage I hear?

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bulletproofvita
12/07/22 11:12:02 PM
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ElatedVenusaur
12/07/22 11:12:49 PM
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PrettyBoyMarth posted...
There is a clear cut answer, but you won't get it on CE, like all majority left leaning communities on the internet, they don't live in reality. There is the actual truth that will get you modded because reality hurts the feefees and then there is CE's truth, the untrue answer they have created in their mind to believe is the truth.
What, is the truth that women ought to submit themselves completely to the will of men? Is our misery rooted in trans people having the unmitigated gall to exist? Are we upset because they're not popping out enough babies and staying in the kitchen enough? Because their uterus just wanders around and makes them all crazy?

Here's the deal: we women know what we want, we know what we need, and we certainly don't need any advice from the likes of you.

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dioxxys
12/07/22 11:26:47 PM
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Cleo_II posted...
Lets see. Violence against women is on the rise since the pandemic. Our rights are being attacked and stripped away. Discrimination is up. Were carrying a larger load by working full time but still taking on the majority of household and child duties. Gee I wonder why were angrier.
I'll give you the abortion thing because that's stupid that a basic human right was abolished.

But the larger workload thing? It's proven that women generally don't want to be with a man who doesn't make as much or more than her. It's kind of hard to have it both ways. Do you want me to stay at home and take care of the kids and do all the cleaning and cooking? Or do you want me to make more money than my partner?

I'm great at cooking and cleaning and always wanted a son but my single status would indicate that's not what women want.
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Nosferatu_Zodd
12/07/22 11:35:27 PM
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You have the patience of a Saint

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