I am an Angry Woman and proud of it. By outing myself, I'm jeopardizing my career-when women express anger at work, they lose status and wages and are viewed as less competent, research has found. I also risk coming off as unlik-able, a scold, and unhinged. And I can expect even more men to tell me to smile.But after reading Rebecca Traister's Good and Mad: The Revolutionary Power of Women's Anger (Simon & Schuster, $27), I'm convinced that the benefits of publicly owning my feelings outweigh all that. And, no matter your gender, you should feel that way, too.The book is largely an aggregation of rage from the past two years, from the 2016 election through #MeToo up to the midterm races happening right now. History has a habit of erasing female anger, Traister argues. Fuming-hot ire is the necessary and righteous fuel for igniting radical social change: It drove the suffragists, labor organizers, second-wave feminists, and civil rights activists to push for the right to vote, humane working conditions, reproductive freedoms, and racial equality under the law.
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