Lockhart doesn’t seem to realize that it matters what you are splendidly furious about, and what you do with that fury. Murdering an innocent person in a fit of rage doesn’t make a character a feminist hero.
Massive spoilers for the finale of Sharp Objects if you click through, but I was reminded of this: "The show is a potent and complicated look at the whirling morass of feelings we try to sanitize with terms like 'women's rage.' We're in a cultural moment that wants to regard women's anger as always and inherently constructive, a political force for good—and certainly, it can be that. But a mature work of art will look at women's anger with the nuance and complexity so often paid to men's anger, and it may find that, sometimes, women's anger is simply savage, destructive, and entitled—that there is nothing in it to champion or celebrate."
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Massive spoilers for the finale of Sharp Objects if you click through, but I was reminded of this: "The show is a potent and complicated look at the whirling morass of feelings we try to sanitize with terms like 'women's rage.' We're in a cultural moment that wants to regard women's anger as always and inherently constructive, a political force for good—and certainly, it can be that. But a mature work of art will look at women's anger with the nuance and complexity so often paid to men's anger, and it may find that, sometimes, women's anger is simply savage, destructive, and entitled—that there is nothing in it to champion or celebrate."