"Whoa! Why does this word carry so much weight, and why do these women want to distance themselves so far from this word?" Once I had received a similar response from three other women, as though anger was un-cool, or un-sexy, I started thinking of the "Angry Young Men" of the fifties and sixties-the amorphous James Dean types whose anger was sexy, because anger is one of the sanctioned responses that men have, and women don't. No man would protest being featured in a book called Angry Young Men, do you think?
[Interview with Andrea Juno, Ed of "angry women" (Juno Books, 1992)]
Society does not expect women to be angry, it is seen as a negative attribute, whereas from men it is almost expected to be angry and aggressive. History is full of narratives of angry young men, women on the other hand are expected to be peaceful and quiet. This website's purpose is to disturb this notion of a peaceful and passive woman.
The website is a platform for female artists to express their anger through the works they publish here. It is designed in a non-hierarchical manner with all the entries floating around randomly, so there is no judgement involved what comes at the beginning or at the end.
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