In truth, anger in girls is highly rational. We live in a culture that grinds their pride and confidence in being girls into a fine pulp and then blows it back in their faces. They acutely feel the very real disparate impact of limitations on their physical freedom and behavior. Feelings of anger become enmeshed in ideas about being “good,” and about beauty, bodies, food, relationships, and power. Experiences like these provoke frustration, depression, anxiety, and sometimes violence in even the most rational men. When it does, we don’t talk about their hormones.
