Anger
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We think of politics and
anger
in terms of the contempt and disdain and fury that are feeding a rise of macho-fascism in the world.
We have an
anger
of hope, and we see it every single day in the resistant
anger
of women and marginalized people.
It's related to compassion and empathy and love, and we should recognize that
anger
as well.
The issue is that societies that don't respect women's
anger
don't respect women.
The real danger of our
anger
isn't that it will break bonds or plates.
With his thunderous language and seething anger, Caliban constantly reminds Prospero of what came before: this island’s mine by Sycorax my mother, Which thou takest from me.
The anger, the anxiety, the guilt, the depression ... it just clung to me.
Art and organizing became our answer to
anger
and anxiety.
And yet at the same time, we feel increasingly frustrated by its politics and politicians, sometimes to the point of despair or hurt or
anger.
Ours is the age of anxiety, anger, distrust, resentment and, I think, lots of fear.
And I believe that understanding the root of that
anger
is much more productive than just being angry at them in return.
And this has helped me understand why there is so much
anger
towards rich white women, especially in some parts of the feminist movement at the moment, because perhaps they're prone to seeing themselves as underprivileged relative to white men, and they forget how overprivileged they are relative to nonwhite women.
Sometimes these fits of
anger
would put the entire school into lockdown mode until D could get himself back together, which could sometimes take over an hour.
There was no anger, there were no tears.
And as you can imagine, when people hear I'm an
anger
researcher, they want to talk to me about their anger, they want to share with me their
anger
stories.
And it's not because they need a therapist, though that does sometimes happen, it's really because
anger
is universal.
In fact,
anger
has been with us at some of the worst moments of our lives.
I have a lot of conversations with people about their
anger
and it's through those conversations that I've learned that many people, and I bet many people in this room right now, you see
anger
as a problem.
And while I get all of that, I see
anger
a little differently, and today, I want to tell you something really important about your anger, and it's this:
anger
is a powerful and healthy force in your life.
A lot of this goes back to the work of an
anger
researcher named Dr.
Jerry Deffenbacher, who wrote about this back in 1996 in a book chapter on how to deal with problematic
anger.
By the way, now is a good time to point out one of the advantages of being an
anger
researcher is that I've spent more than a decade generating a comprehensive list of all the things that really irritate my colleagues.
This is a recipe for
anger.
But you can also tell that
anger
is probably not the only thing we're feeling in these situations.
And it's one of the primary types of thoughts that we know is associated with chronic
anger.
If there's one thing I want you to remember from my talk today, it's this: your
anger
exists in you as an emotion because it offered your ancestors, both human and nonhuman, with an evolutionary advantage.
Just as your fear alerts you to danger, your
anger
alerts you to injustice.
And the problem is that the thing your ancestors did to deal with their anger, to physically fight, they are no longer reasonable or appropriate.
Even when you want to lash out, you can stop yourself and you can channel that
anger
into something more productive.
So often when we talk about anger, we talk about how to keep from getting angry.
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