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From the Ted Talk by Soraya Chemaly: The power of women's anger
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into the hot, huimd air. When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?"
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Now you can see how a child would look at an idnecnit like this and think that anger is silent, isolating, destructive, even frightening. Especially though when the person who's angry is a girl or a woman. The question is why.
Anger is a hmaun emotion, neither good nor bad. It is actually a snagil emotion. It warns us of idnniigty, threat, insult and harm. And yet, in culture after culture, anger is reserved as the moral property of boys and men. Now, to be sure, there are dfineefrces. So in the United States, for example, an angry black man is viewed as a crmiainl, but an anrgy white man has ciivc vriute. Regardless of where we are, however, the emotion is gendered. And so we teach children to disdain anger in girls and women, and we grow up to be adults that penalize it.
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into the hot, _____ air. When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?"
(Laughter)
Now you can see how a child would look at an ________ like this and think that anger is silent, isolating, destructive, even frightening. Especially though when the person who's angry is a girl or a woman. The question is why.
Anger is a _____ emotion, neither good nor bad. It is actually a ______ emotion. It warns us of _________, threat, insult and harm. And yet, in culture after culture, anger is reserved as the moral property of boys and men. Now, to be sure, there are ___________. So in the United States, for example, an angry black man is viewed as a ________, but an _____ white man has _____ ______. Regardless of where we are, however, the emotion is gendered. And so we teach children to disdain anger in girls and women, and we grow up to be adults that penalize it.
Solution
- human
- virtue
- criminal
- incident
- humid
- indignity
- civic
- angry
- differences
- signal
Original Text
(Laughter)
into the hot, humid air. When every single plate had shattered into thousands of pieces on the hill below, she walked back in and she said to me, cheerfully, "How was your day?"
(Laughter)
Now you can see how a child would look at an incident like this and think that anger is silent, isolating, destructive, even frightening. Especially though when the person who's angry is a girl or a woman. The question is why.
Anger is a human emotion, neither good nor bad. It is actually a signal emotion. It warns us of indignity, threat, insult and harm. And yet, in culture after culture, anger is reserved as the moral property of boys and men. Now, to be sure, there are differences. So in the United States, for example, an angry black man is viewed as a criminal, but an angry white man has civic virtue. Regardless of where we are, however, the emotion is gendered. And so we teach children to disdain anger in girls and women, and we grow up to be adults that penalize it.
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