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On September 30, 2018, Elizabeth Warren wrote: “Brett Kavanaugh was allowed to be angry. Christine Blasey Ford wasn’t. Women—and people without power—grow up hearing that being angry makes us unattractive.” The previous day, Rebecca Traister wrote in a New York Times op-ed that in describing the traumatic events that had happened to her, Blasey Ford “did not yell, did not betray a hint of the fury she had every reason to feel as she was forced to put her pain on display for the nation.
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Wells, M.A. (2023). Reflections on Everyday Affective Injustice. In: Gender, Affect, and Emotion from Classical to Early Modern Literature. Palgrave Studies in Affect Theory and Literary Criticism. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-27721-4_8
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