Anger
- realshepower
- Apr 14, 2020
- 2 min read
In the first chapter of 7 necessary sins for women and girls, Mona Eltahawy talks about the pilot light of anger that many a girl is born with. The argument she puts forward in this chapter is that girls are taught anger is pernicious, and they must let boys be invincible as they become invisible. What patriarchy seeks is girls sending their anger inward to destroy themselves. Victims of Larry Nasser, female genital mutilation, and Kelly’s sexual abuse were girls who did not vent their anger. Their parents not believed them. Mona wants a world in which parents believe their little girls, the world where women have the power to wipe out their sexual predators. I firmly believe that we also require a criminal justice system, lending support to women who might have to kill their predators to save their lives. Reyhane Jabari, a young Iranian girl, an interior designer executed for the murderer of a man who wanted to rape her. The assaulter of Reyhane was a former official of the Iranian ministry of intelligence. Therefore, she faced trial based on unreliable evidence and trumped-up charges. It had not served the justice; they sentenced her to eternity by a justice system in favor of her rapist!
Even if women dare to kill their sexual assaulter, they may find it challenging to exonerate. It is patriarchy safeguarding predators over the years. But there have been women who have the courage to speak up for a woman's right like Tarana Burke, founder of #metoo. We need a world with women supporting women.
Ursula Kroeber Le Guin, an American author, said that
“We are volcanoes. When we women offer our experience as our truth, as human truth, all the maps change. There are new mountains.”
To hammer patriarchy, we must take measures early. We need to introduce lessons into curricula on the paramount importance of fury and the various ways to air and exert it. We must educate girls that their indignation at their mistreatment is correct. Restricting feminism to esteem religion and culture is narrow. Rather, feminism is powerful, hostile and unashamed; a feminist rebelling, interrupting the patriarchy, according to Mona.
About the Author: Mahtab is an Iranian Social activist determined to bring a change in society. She is a strong voice for women in Iran.
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