Often at this time of year the queer side of the Internet talks about celebrating ‘Wrath’ instead of ‘Pride’ so as to better acknowledge the world’s many injustices. Last time Ladies First covered why we need Pride. Today, Kori and Taylor let loose about the double standards regarding revenge narratives and who gets to revel in them. After thousands of years of oppression and being spoken over, all women restrain a huge, hellish dose of wrath.
Further (Wrathful) Readings:
- Taylor. “Caleb Meyer (Pt. 1): Gillian Welch Confronts Trauma And Misogyny In Her Music.” The Fandomentals (2021)
- Taylor. “Warrior Nun Struggles As a Trauma Narrative (Part 4).” The Fandomentals (2021)
Sources:
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- Amoako, Aida. “I Went Undercover In The Sinister World Of Meghan Markle Hate Accounts.” Refinery29 (2021)
- Ashley, Wendy. “The angry black woman: the impact of pejorative stereotypes on psychotherapy with black women.” Social Work in Public Health, vol. 29, #1 (2014)
- BBC. “Is gender inequality man-made?.” BBC
- brit16. “john mayer at the comedy cellar.” brit16 — YouTube (2007)
- Burkeman, Oliver. “Gillian Flynn on her bestseller Gone Girl and accusations of misogyny.” The Guardian (2013)
- Creed, Barbara. The Monstrous-Feminine: Film, Feminism, Psychoanalysis, Routledge (p. 2) (1993)
- Cowley, Christopher. “Complicity and Rape.” The Journal of Criminal Law, vol. 83, #1(2019) (p. 34)
- Coyne, Kevin John. “Discussion: Carrie Underwood, Shania Twain and Gender in Country Music.” Country Universe (2008)
- Elliott, Beth. “Of Infidels and Inquisitions.” The Lesbian Tide, 15 (June 1973) (p. 26)
- Eisner, Shiri. “Bi villains represent the ways cishet society is threatened by bisexuality.” @shirieisner — Twitter (2021)
- Erdman, Dave. “Sneak Previews With Siskel & Ebert – ‘Women In Danger’.” WTTW National Productions (1980)
- Federici, Silvia. Caliban and the Witch: Women, the Body, and Primitive Accumulation, Autonomedia (2004/2014)
- Felker-Martin, Gretchen. “The Cursed Interior: Women in Horror.” VRV blog — WordPress (2018)
- feminist next door. “Misogyny is much less a hatred of women and more a hatred of women with agency. It’s the enforcement division of patriarchy[.]” @emrazz — Twitter (2021)
- Flaherty, Erin M. “Howling (and Bleeding) at the Moon: Menstruation, Monstrosity and the Double in the Ginger Snaps Werewolf Trilogy.” Pforzheimer Honors College (2008)
- Ganesh, Bharath. “Weaponizing white thymos: flows of rage in the online audiences of the alt-right.” vol. 34, #6 (2020)
- Gooding, Sarah. “how a breakup inspired the folk horror ‘midsommar’.” i-D (2019)
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- Kirchner, Caitlin. “If I Had a Shotgun: Musical Protest against Misogyny in Murder Ballads.” Oshkosh Scholar, vol. 12 (2017)
- Lang, Cady. “How the ‘Karen Meme’ Confronts the Violent History of White Womanhood.” Time (2020)
- Lehner, Marla. “John Mayer Performs Raunchy Stand-Up.” People (2007)
- Lorde, Audre. “The Uses of Anger.” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (1984) (p. 133)
- Mar, Frida. “How white women weaponize their privilege.” The Strand (2020)
- Morgan, Joan. When Chickenheads Come Home to Roost: A Hip-Hop Feminist Breaks It Down, Simon & Schuster (1999) (pp. 95-101)
- Negra, Diane; Leyda, Julia. “Querying ‘Karen’: The rise of the angry white woman.” European Journal of Cultural Studies (2021)
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- Stereogum. “John Mayer, Finally, Does Stand-Up Comedy.” Stereogum (2006)
- Romano, Evan. “How Midsommar‘s Jack Reynor Reacted to the Movie’s Brutal Ending.” Men’s Health (2019)
- Thompson, Gayle. “Carrie Underwood, ‘Before He Cheats’ Had Star Fearing ‘Hate’.” The Boot (2012)
- UltimateGuitar.com. “John Mayer Stand Up.” UltimateGuitar.com — forum comments (2007)
- Valenti, Jessica. “Feminists don’t hate men. But it wouldn’t matter if we did.” The Guardian (2015)
- Widdicombe, Ben. “John’s still a Jess man.” NY Daily News (2007)
- Witt, Lara. “‘Captain Marvel’ and the Power of Women’s Emotions.” Wear Your Voice (2019)
- Yadegaran, Jessica. “Beyond ‘Respect’: Women spell out r-e-v-e-n-g-e in songs, videos.” Lincoln Journal Star (2007)
- Zeisler, Andi. “It’s Time to Embrace Feminism’s Anger.” Bitch Media (2018)
Credits:
- Created/Written/Hosted by Kori and Taylor
- Sound Design/Music/Production by Kori
- Research by Taylor
- Graphic Design by Kori Produced by The Fandomentals Network
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