Felt or expressed intense anger or fury; continued with uncontrolled force or violence, as in a storm or fire raging.
From Old French 'rage,' derived from Latin 'rabies' meaning madness or rage (the source of the disease name). The word entered English in the 12th century and has maintained its meaning of intense uncontrolled emotion or force throughout its history.
Interestingly, the word 'rabies' shares the same Latin root as 'rage'—ancient people noticed that animals infected with the disease became uncontrollably violent and wild, so they named the disease after that same concept of 'rabid' fury and madness.
Anger in women is historically pathologized ('hysterical,' 'irrational') while male anger is normalized or heroicized. Women's justified rage against injustice is systematically delegitimized as emotional excess.
Validate anger equally across genders. Avoid framing women's anger as emotional disorder; recognize it as a legitimate response to injustice. Use 'raged' or 'furious' without gendered psychology.
["expressed justified anger","responded forcefully to injustice"]
Women's rage—at discrimination, assault, inequality—is justified. Historical dismissal of women's anger as hysteria is itself a tool of oppression.
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