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I'm just saying with Cura Davis.

Yet another video went viral on social media recently.

This one highlighting a group of women engaging in rage rituals.

These rage rituals are exactly what they sound like.

Women are encouraged to scream, cry, and take out their aggression on innocent, inanimate objects around them.

Ha!

Ha!

Ha! The point is apparently to release suppressed emotions and reconnect with themselves.

Now, I'm all for a good guttural scream every now and then.

Who among us hasn't grabbed a pillow to stifle a frustrated scream at least

once in our lives? There's something to be said about just letting it all out sometimes. However,

there is something disturbing about making an entire therapy session out of it. For one thing,

why are these women so full of rage? You might say, well, Kira, the state of the world is

enraging, climate change, sexism, racism, people named Donald Trump. There's a lot to be enraged about.

Okay, fine. But we all live in the same world, and yet most of us are able to go through our days

and our lives without amassing such

a cache of rage inside us that it eventually must be released in an adult temper tantrum session.

And for another thing, this level of internalized rage suggests a marked sense of helplessness,

one that seems to be pervading our modern culture.

And justice makes me angry, most certainly, but I don't feel the need to join screen therapy

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