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Womanhood

Vulnerability is naturally hard, but as a woman I've been taught repeatedly that I can’t spare any of it because it will be ridiculed, judged, or taken advantage of. And that’s where the problem lies.

I don’t believe in inherently "bad" people. I believe in constructs and social expectations that inform the way we live and behave. However, I don’t believe that alleviates us from taking responsibility for our actions. In fact, I believe it makes us even more responsible to make better choices that challenge gender constructs and expectations. So what if I make people uncomfortable? These stories make up my reality as a girl, and it sure as hell hasn’t been a comfortable experience for me. In fact, I hope that men are uncomfortable hearing me. I hope my anger shakes the foundations of the manufactured versions of masculinity they stand on.

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Me!

I'm Angie, I'm 17, and I'm a Junior in highschool. This project is for my AP Language class, where we've been asked to create an outreach project that reshapes our experience and research from a semester of inquiry about a topic of our choosing. My initial point of inquiry was in exploring women's anger and the ways it's weaponized against us. This led me to a rage room with 4 other girls in my class, where I discovered somewhat ironically, that a space designed to be destructive felt actually very safe to me, because we were given a space to exhibit our anger without judgment.  

This lead to further examination of the implications of this, and how gender expectations and roles influence the way anger is percieved in women. I found that as a woman, to be angry is to be perceived as ugly and to be ugly is to be worthless. This sparked my interest in Gender Theory as a whole and I conducted further research, like reading Judith Butler and other various essays. All of this has accumulated in this blog, which explores gender as a concept, along with my personal relationship with my gender.

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