Written By Ellie Edwards & Caroline Sluss

Photographed By Hal Lueking

Modeled By Jake Moreland & Ellie Edwards

Many women have felt solidarity with the TikTok trend of women's rage. Videos have surfaced with audio clips of different women from different films screaming and raging. This platform gave women an outlet to share their experiences with men and the male dominated world, and their frustrations towards it. The #FemaleRage on TikTok has reached over 1.5 billion views and videos. Videos range from edits to movies that are inspired by female rage, or even women relaying their personal experiences.

The trend, still going strong in late 2023, started off around March of 2023 with a video edit from user “bel6va.” From then, many edits, stories, videos have been posted and shared amongst a plethora of women.

In today's society, we are told that being a woman is easier than it used to be, that we should be grateful for how much progress has been made. Don't get me wrong, women everywhere are grateful for our foremothers who brought us through women's suffrage and paved the beautiful path for our futures. But that is not to say that there is no room for more progress, more equality–continuing to pave that path for generations to come. When people talk about the major problems that women face in society, it stems from a clear place of sexism. Men tend to hash out passive comments with sexist undertones when they try to downplay a woman’s success/accomplishments. Men telling women that we’re less than, it's not always right out front and clear but a lot of times sexism takes its form more subtly. For years, women in workplaces have had to claw their way through just to get a seat at the table. Even today, the wage gap between genders is baffling. According to the Pew Research Center, in 2022, women made 82 cents for every dollar a man made. It may not seem like a lot, but that 18 cent gap speaks loudly. Women are being underpaid because we are undervalued. It is hard for many women to only be able to stand by and watch these statistics and experiences happen, while no one has changed the system they built.

We are the ones who will make the change. It's difficult, but good things come from hard work. Women in all fields are dedicated and put their blood, sweat, and tears into everything. Say a woman works in an office where she's one of the few women —she most likely has to work a little harder and put in extra time just to be taken seriously. Or, all of the full time mothers dedicated to raising their kids, fulfilling all of the roles in their lives as well as their own. Even female college students and younger students face this harsh reality of having to work their best in assignments and projects because many men see them as not capable enough just because of their gender.

It is hard being a woman, and sometimes it is just nice to take a step back and appreciate the joy of being a woman in today's society, although still not the greatest, but to see the progression we have made from the earlier ages, but also allow yourself to be rageful of this inequality. Let yourself have that breakdown, cry for an hour in your car, scream, sing your favorite playlist, let yourself feel that rage. It’s nice to know you're not alone and that being a woman has helped make a community outlet where we can all share our experiences and sympathize with one another, and just let everything out.

A Woman’s Rage