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76. Anger + Something New

UnF*ck Your Brain: Feminist Self-Help for Everyone

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The Relationship Between Anger and Productive Action

I think that anger is sometimes correlated with taking productive action, but it's not usually caused by it. We are taught that negative emotion leads to positive action and I don't actually find that to be true. If you're in a meeting where someone says something that you believe is sexist, what happens? Now imagine if you could register the comment, feel calm, decide on purpose if you did truly believe it was sexist and if you wanted to say something. None of those seem like awesome options to me.

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