Where does all the rage go now? - by lyz - Men Yell at Me
On January 21, 2017, approximately 1 to 1.6 percent of the US population took to the streets to protest the presidency of Donald Trump. The Women’s March was the largest single-day protest in US history. It drew hundreds of thousands of angry women and others into the streets of Washington, D.C., and cities across the nation. That demonstration of rage helped to inspire political action: a historic midterm; the election of some of our most powerful voices for justice in America. It helped to fuel the overwhelming power of the #MeToo movement, later that same year. And it would contribute to the end of my marriage. Of course, who could know that then? All we knew was that rage was filling the streets. I watched the protest from my phone in the Cedar Rapids Library, where I had taken my kids for the day. I wanted to go to the march. I’d tried to go. But my marriage was threadbare by then. My husband’s barely concealed rage at my request had felt like a warning: If I went, I’d cross a lin
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