Ep. 35: Anger by Gender with Soraya Chemaly
Soraya Chemaly is an award-winning writer and media critic whose writing appears regularly in national and international media. She speaks frequently on topics related to inclusivity, freedom of speech, gender roles in human systems, data, and technology. Ms. Chemaly is co-founder and director of the Women’s Media Center Speech Project and spear-headed multiple successful campaigns challenging corporations to address inclusivity, online harassment and hate, and algorithmic bias.
In 2017, she was a recipient of the Newhouse Mirror Award for Best Single Feature of 2016 for an in-depth investigative report, The Secrets of The Internet, about social media companies and their regulation of online hate, harassment, and freedom of expression. Her recent book, Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger, was named one Best Book of 2018 by The Washington Post, Fast Company, Psychology Today and Book Riot.
In this episode, we discuss:
· Gendered assumptions when it comes to the emotions we feel, especially anger.
· The difference of how genders are taught to process and express anger.
· Misconceptions about testosterone and the relationship between testosterone and aggression.
· The impacts of detaching anger from femininity.
· How anger is perceived differently by race.
· How vulnerability and fragility is programmed into women from a young age and the impact that has.
· The unhealthy ways in which unprocessed anger is presenting in our lives.
· The complicated dynamics – within society and relationships – surrounding caretaking responsibilities.
· And what we can do to begin to address unprocessed anger.
You can find and follow Soraya here:
Instagram @sorayachemaly
Facebook /sorayachemaly
Twitter @schemaly
Her book – Rage Becomes Her: The Power of Women’s Anger
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