Women Are Not Entitled to Their Anger

The press will never get it, because it sells papers.

A woman betrays a man and she's a HORRIBLE WHORE, SCUM, a COMPLETE SLUT.

But a man betrays a woman - AND she becomes outraged and goes into a mental tailspin? He might be a CHEATER or DIRTBAG but she's a PSYCHO, SCORNED WOMAN, BUNNY BOILER, OUT OF CONTROL, STALKER, a NUTJOB.

Just as the misogyny of the Obots shut down Hillary's rightful chances at the Presidency, misogyny still rules the day because women ARE NOT ENTITLED TO BE ANGRY. Especially when abused & used in interpersonal relationships. Nope, we women are supposed to take it.

To women who were taught that it is unladylike to express anger, the presumably therapeutic yelling and cursing of the current let-it-all-hang-out generation is often shocking. But now a major new study has strongly suggested that both the old style of keeping anger in and the newer tendency to release it explosively are equally poor ways of expressing this fundamental human emotion.

Both responses can catch women in a vicious cycle of low self-esteem and depression and can worsen anger because the issues that provoke it are never resolved, the study findings indicate.

It is as if anger were a squeezed balloon; if it does not come out in one way, it will in another.

Dr. Thomas said the suppression of anger was usually counterproductive, since "unless the anger is expressed, the offending party has no opportunity to make needed changes in behavior." Thus, the anger-provoking behavior is likely to be repeated until an explosion results when the angry person cannot take it any longer.

SOURCE: WOMEN AND ANGER

This is outrageous and ridiculous! The smear and name calling (unladylike... etc) women put up with just for the HEALTHY RESPONSE OF BEING ANGRY.

And now the smear because you were angry. And let's add in cancer, drugs, treatment and the public spotlight.

This one is particularly disgusting, truly disgusting:

It was "the lie of Saint Elizabeth," the courageous, cancer-stricken, wronged-wife persona that endeared Elizabeth Edwards to Americans.

Behind the scenes, she and John Edwards fought viciously and she erupted in irrational outbursts, a new book says.

"Game Change: Obama and the Clintons, McCain and Palin, and the Race of a Lifetime," by John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, says John Edwards' campaign staffers suffered her wrath for years and felt like "battered spouses."

"There was no one on the national stage for whom the disparity between public image and private reality was vaster or more disturbing," the book says. In the mainstream media, the worse John Edwards looked and the more tawdry his profile became, the more heroic his wife seemed.

A dissection of the 2008 presidential campaign that has made news for juicy revelations, "Game Change" paints Edwards as "an abusive, intrusive, paranoid, condescending crazywoman."

Through all of John Edwards' denials of his affair and his love child, Edwards was publicly a noble buttress. But for years, Edwards denigrated her husband as a hick and said his parents were rednecks.

The book also shows moments of her pain and vulnerability: In 2007, the day after the National Enquirer broke news of her husband's affair with Rielle Hunter, the Edwardses fought in an airport parking lot, and Edwards cried and tore off her blouse, imploring her husband, "Look at me!"

In April 2008, when the supermarket tabloid published a photo of John Edwards holding his love child, Edwards insisted her husband wasn't the father.

"I have to believe it, because if I don't, it means I'm married to a monster," she told an aide.

"Game Change" says Elizabeth Edwards swung between anger at her husband and trying to convince herself that Young was the father. She ordered staff to compile an elaborate chronology to establish nights when Young and Hunter were in the same city.

In March 2007 when her cancer had returned, spreading from the breast to bone, she insisted her husband stay in the race for the Democratic nomination.

After his affair was revealed, John Edwards became more deferential to her, and she grew more assertive. The book says she steamrolled over his close aides in profanity-laced tirades, which she had also done during the 2004 presidential race, when John Edwards ran as John Kerry's vice president.

Edwards gained more saintly notoriety last year with her book, "Resilience," which recounted her grief over her son's death and her battle with cancer.She wrote, "I am imperfect in a million ways, but I always thought I was ... the kind of wife to whom a husband would be faithful."

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To Elin Nordegren, Christie Brinkley, Ellen Barkin, Dina Matos McGreevey, etc - if any of you want to start a confidential support group for press-named: "SCORNED WOMEN" I'd be happy to run it for you. Gratis.