All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump?
All This Fury—Is It Really About Trump? Thoughts on women and rage Janice Fiamengo Feminist uproar over Trump’s election was easy to predict, and not long in coming. Within ten days of the election, Clara Jeffery wrote in Mother Jones that “ Women are furious—in a Greek mythology sort of way .” Taking examples from TikTok, Jeffery chronicled abundant “sorrow and disbelief and terror, but also incandescent rage,” which many women vowed to exorcise on men: “‘ If his ballot was red, his balls stay blue ,’” she quoted one. In The New York Times , a 16-year-old girl, Naomi Beinart, charted her tumultuous emotions, which included a sense of betrayal because her male classmates had carried on with their lives on the day after the election, seemingly immune to the girls’ all-pervasive gloom and outrage. “ Many of them didn’t seem to share our rage, our fear, our despair . We don’t even share the same future,” Beinart opined melodramatically. No one with even a minimal a...