What?!

Around this same time, I was told by a male friend that I ought to be “nicer” to someone who had not been nice to me. My justifiable anger was experienced by him as inappropriate because I didn’t use my feminine socialization to placate, soothe, and otherwise smooth over the situation. I was expected to do the emotional labor of “keeping things friendly” in the face of someone being rude and belligerent to me. My anger was unattractive and out of line.
Misogyny Is About Keeping Women In Their Own Lane
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Laura Rosell
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Oct 13, 2022
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What?!
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(Also... this is, admittedly, not a total shocker to me, because I see men way too often telling women that we're wrong to be angry about injustices.)
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