Female Rage Trending in Film
An angry woman is definitely not a new concept in movies but female characters are starting to become more complex and female rage is starting to trend on social media. Both in films and real life, women still tend to be shaped into their binary construct and can be seen as one-dimensional. Vexed women are simply called dramatic, bossy, or animalistic; their 'unfeminine' qualities are disliked in this patriarchal society, harming them.
Past films tended to include female fury through the male gaze where women's problems were unsubstantial, or in horrors where they typically depicted a 'white, pure, pretty' girl who has been wronged and just like the horror, and violence, her rage is also fictional. The rising popularity of the "Good for Her" trope intends to diminish this and gives ALL women the power and safe space to be angry and to speak out. Anger is a human feeling, so women (as humans, naturally), should have the right to feel and behave like anyone would, without being demeaned.
The rising popularity of female wrath and revenge is a satisfaction for viewers who are often told there is no reason to feel angry about not being 'allowed' to be angry in the first place.
