Daily Dose: 24

Feminism in 3D: Defy, Disobey, Disrupt

Logo: Sheyam Ghieth

Something interesting and revealing happens when you emphasize the importance of anger in girls. Suddenly people—mostly men—start to worry that you are encouraging violence, that you are telling girls to imitate boys, and so forth. “Anger is destructive,” they insist. “Teach girls to be kind. There is too much anger in the world.” Patriarchy worries when you talk about encouraging and nurturing anger in girls because it wants to deny girls a necessary response to injustice. Patriarchy knows that when we nurture anger in girls, they will hold patriarchy accountable and those girls will grow up to be women who demand a reckoning. It does not want that reckoning and we must demand it.