THE UPSIDE

Women flipping the middle finger is all the rage at yoga

A practitioner of yoga in Alberta, Canada, has developed a variation on a theme: rage yoga

09 July 2023 - 00:00

The statistics don't lie. Self-identifying women are, by and large, angrier than other genders. Women have grown steadily angrier over the past decade, to the point that last year the BBC declared a 6% divergence between female anger and all the other types across 160 countries polled. Why? I could hazard a guess or point you in the direction of The Handmaid's Tale, a triggering TV series based on Margaret Atwood's novels, which she says are drawn entirely from reality. So, ja!..

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