January 23, 2026

The age of female rage

12 minutes

This week we are talking about anger, the emotion that shaped 2025. So much so that "rage bait" was crowned the Oxford Dictionary's word of the year. But while anger has long been rewarded, even celebrated, when expressed by men, women's fury has remained something of a taboo; dismissed as hysteria or rudeness. But is a cultural reckoning underway, where women are finally being heard – not despite, but because of their anger?

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