![]() dictate the degree to which we can use anger effectively in personal contexts and to participate in civic and political life,” Chemaly notes. Women no longer obliged to please men may finally be able to express rage, because we’re less economically dependent on men than ever before, and because feminism has been redefining what’s appropriate and acceptable. ![]() These books arrive at a moment when a lot of women have changed and too many men have not-and some are, in fact, retreating into revved-up misogyny and rage against the erosion of their supremacy. ![]() (Michael Kimmel’s recent book, Healing From Hate, which examines male fury in global politics, is among the valuable exceptions.) We have until very recently treated it as inevitable that women should adapt to these outbursts with Mace in our purses, self-defense lessons, and limits on our freedom of movement, tiptoeing around men who use their volatility to intimidate and control others. Because we normalize the behavior of men-and of white men in particular-the fact that a lot of far-right movements, such as the American neo-Nazi terror group Atomwaffen Division, are mostly male, is seldom noted. Male anger is a public safety issue, as well as a force in the ugliest politics and social movements of our time, from the epidemic of domestic violence to mass shootings, and from neo-Nazis to incels. Anger is often entangled with entitlement-the assumption, which underlies a lot of the violence in the United States, that one’s will should prevail and one’s rights outweigh those of others. Add to this all the high-powered, high-profile men-the #MeToo perpetrators-who have been cruel and degrading to women, and the men who went berserk in early August when The New York Times appointed Sarah Jeong to its editorial board, slinging sexualized and racist insults at her because she had dared to criticize them. You would think there would be more literature about why men are so angry-the president, the mob in Charlottesville a year ago, the alt-right generally, the bar brawlers, the wife-beaters, the gay-bashers, the man who got more famous than he anticipated for screaming at a couple of women who were speaking Spanish in a Manhattan restaurant earlier this year.
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