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Rebecca Traister is a writer at New York. Her new book is Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger.\n\n\u201cI don\u2019t want my experience to be held up as so, ladies, your new health regimen is rage all day. Because the fact is we live in a world that does punish women for expressing their anger, that denies them jobs, that attaches to them bad reputations as difficult-to-work-with, crazy bitches. Because they\u2019re reasonably angry about something they have every reason to be angry about. We live in a world in which black women\u2019s anger is either caricatured and they get written off as cartoons, or regarded as threats and face steep, often physical penalties for expressing dissent or dissatisfaction. When I talk about this, I don\u2019t mean it to be prescriptive, I mean it to be descriptive of a particular experience I had that was extraordinarily unusual but which made me question a premise that I think all of us internalize that the anger is bad for us. I no longer believe that that\u2019s true.\u201d\n\nThanks to MailChimp, Skagen, Under My Skin, and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n@rtraister\nTraister on Longform\n[2:30] Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Rebecca Traister \u2022 2018)\n[7:55] "What a Good Boy" (The Cut \u2022 Sep 2018)\n[26:50]Traister's archive at Observer\n[29:05]Traister's archive at Salon\n[32:50] "Hillary Clinton Didn\u2019t Shatter the Glass Ceiling. This Is What Broke Instead." (The Cut \u2022 Nov 2016)\n[35:50] "Michelle Obama Gets Real" (Salon \u2022 Nov 2007)\n[38:55] Big Girls Don't Cry: The Election that Changed Everything for American Women (Free Press \u2022 2011)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices