Paris Paloma - LABOUR (the cacophony) [Official Video]

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Credits:
A massive thank you to the over 350+ of you who submitted your voices & videos to be a part of this project. This would not have been possible without you!❤️‍🔥
Videos pulled from socials
Verse 1:
@_alexidoesart
@cursedcrone
@gildedmothstudio
@d0wnth3rabbith0le
@wrenofwvnds
@saberlinsla
@memonamuneer0
@damalairieux
@drawingsbyjacob
@rowritess
@lindseycherekwaller
@kh.archery
@kkraynak
Verse 2:
@nicolekauffman3
@naomi_jayne_art
@megsartspace
@art_by_isabella_alsharif
@vikspi
@suriani_artistry
@luslover
@janamimotions
Lip Sync Clips:
@actuallycay
@alexiztheone
@alyssathebpdwitch
@babyboomerssister
@barboramitasova
@beck.buchler
@belrog
@bibibun_
@broken_legz
@caleb.takes.photos
@calumhoods_gf
@cheyennerb
@crazycae
@daintybouquet
@dalek4213
@divyasud5
@divyasud5
@ellefellaction
@eltaylorsversi0n
@evebane
@forgotten.in.the.forest
@g.hostinglolz
@happypill.kiara
@highfashionjoker
@houbofleky
@huge_ego_tiny_waist
@ifeyflowers
@jassy200333
@jayanimates.exe
@jolinasew
@jordinbezabih
@kiiaclarice
@lil.trippy777
@lucifer.or.something0
@luv_eldorado
@lynxisagoodsquirrel
@m.addieblack
@mags.thewitch
@marcy_200222
@megmsanchez
@melissallgall
@minakl98
@mrs_labeezy
@mushroomlover__
@muyanyi
@mxdevin
@mxzee44
@n0t.drakes.kiki
@natalia_bo_tak_
@nikromancy
@ohitssol
@poeticpancake
@presh_f1996
@ptitveto
@rawtee2
@reeducto
@rii_madanii
@rubberduckiejo
@setha.ch
@shailamackay
@snowdrop17
@sp1dermannumber1fan
@springsaga
@spunkytaylor
@starg1rl.anna
@studycelia
@teamdisablitydanni
@teirangiklever
@thatissiriusblack
@theavpatel
@theshoes_
@theyhateravyn
@thisgardenis4eden
@trinitykirkland
@umiko.sensei
@watrchick
@weirdlyzakki
@writingknighting
@xoxo_lillss
@y0urmumsfav0
@yourf4vgae
@yskeptica
@_call_me_chlo_
@_dios.mio_
@_thetolaani
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#parispaloma #labour #cacophony

[@BrunaSilva-hs9sv]

saw someone on tiktok once say: "I NEED to go to a concert and scream this at the top of my lungs with 10 thousand other girls"

[@SakuraSamora]

OMGOMGOMG I JUST HAD THAT EXACT THOUGHT! I NEED THIS ENERGY AROUND ME!

[@studioreece8329]

AGREED! ❤

[@leahbelverd1379]

It would be worth every penny. No doubt. How amazing that would be..!

[@GirlGamer867]

how about chanting/singing it as you march down the street with 10000 other women? now THAT is a protest I will participate in!

[@elizabethgrant2072]

We need to play this as our song while marching we need to do this as a protest not just a concert

[@aasefogarty2152]

“Scream so that one day a hundred years from now another sister will not have to dry her tears wondering where in history she lost her voice.” -Jasmin Kaur

[@sofimontero3066]

I got goosebumps, I swear

[@tara102288]

I literally had tears from reading this.. idk why but it hit HARD

[@ohiomcguiregirl361]

This just made me well up with tears 😢

[@GirlGamer867]

​@tara102288 me too! it hit me like a truck! such a powerful statement.

[@evancook9739]

@@ohiomcguiregirl361 gosh dang, I'm a guy and I'm tearing up now too

[@erikatx11]

“One whisper, added to a thousand others, becomes a roar of discontent”

[@housecreeper]

This is our key to freedom

[@AtlanticGiantPumpkin]

Last month I showed this song to my mother, who divorced my dad when I was four. When she heard the line “If we had a daughter, I’d watch and could not save her \ The emotional torture from the head of your high table \ She’d do what you taught her, she’d meet the same cruel fate \ So now I’ve gotta run so I can undo this mistake” she looked me dead in the eyes and said “That’s exactly why I left him. I didn’t want you to grow up around that and think his abuse was okay and end up in the same kind of relationship. I left him to save you.”

[@vk2ig]

Your mother is a strong woman, a mother to be proud of!

[@daniellekillion4598]

This is amazing and gives me chills...Good for your mom. It's hard to leave abusive relationships.

[@suzannebaxter2888]

Then you cherish her like the diamond she is. That must have took every ounce of courage to do that

[@meredisthemush2469]

I legit teared up a little from this. Your mother is one tough cookie and I'm so happy and proud of her for making that decision to save you. Not herself. You. Please tell her that this internet stranger thinks that she is an absolute Queen.

[@katzrantz]

Hug her for me.

[@twojeawiz0]

it's not just a song anymore, it's a MOVEMENT

[@shannonb.9377]

I truly hope so ❤

[@MsBellaSicilia]

Let's do this! It's a fight we've been preparing for.

[@Henbot]

Don't get too ahead of yourself, you have to actually do organising and activism can't just do a song and mission done

[@smalltravellife2560]

So real ❤

[@imyourhuckleberry8961]

We need to take South Korean women's 4B Movement worldwide. No more dating, sex, marriage or having children with men until they evolve, hold themselves and each other accountable and stop being r*ping, k¡lling, assaulting, abusive misogynists. Women have been patient for generations because we had no choice, now many of us do- yet we still engage with these cowards. Talking, waiting and trying to teach hasn't worked… it's time for action. Shut it down and shut them out until they start seeing our humanity as equal to their own, instead of viewing us as objects or servants. NOW… now is when we hold men's feet to the fire that women were built from. Do not give in, Sisters. I believe in you. I believe in us.💞

[@eleanorjay9568]

This isn't just a song anymore. This is a battlecry

[@abigailbillings8343]

I agree

[@Vivacious.rabbit]

True

[@alecule]

the fetching water song

[@kailyngibbs161]

Imagine hearing this and seeing valkyries go to battle

[@K1tsune6987]

This is the best comment I've seen

[@lilyweatherly1041]

when she says “its not an act of love if you make her” i literally get the chills every time

[@lilpetz500]

This line gets so raw about the problems with this system. If you have to force anything, it's become your opponent. It isn't "beautiful, willing pain" when we literally have to bear it just to earn a semblance of rights. We never should've had to become so strong. Honestly one of the reasons we have to "resort" to so much rage and noise, to refuse to be pleasant anymore, is because it's apparently the only language this system is familiar with, it's fittingly hostile and unpretty in a way that perfectly describes the lack of love in how we're feeling.

[@ChronicPastel]

Same!

[@Xxrocknrollgod]

Lol ur tricked by the elite . They dont want harmony and stable families. They want 2 obedient workers.

[@CrazyCae]

I’m so honored to be a part of this. Thank you for your incredible art 💙💙💙

[@Bluebell80151]

Ahhh I literally screamed when I saw you in the video. Love your videos Cae! 🤍

[@elisep9481]

Also noticed you in the video, great job!!!

[@emmashahar1392]

You deserve it Cae, your art and words inspire so many, including me ❤❤

[@ichoosethepen113]

I was so excited when I saw you in this video!!! You deserve it❤️🌻

[@angeldust671]

I love ur videos ❤❤❤

[@scarlettdownsiswriting]

As ridiculous as it might sound for me to say this, all of the voices combined almost made me tear up

[@zwllce]

trust me its not ridiculous, i was tearing up the whole song. it really is beautiful.

[@loveyoujonghyun]

It's not ridiculous at all. I was fine until the mashup of voices which then I literally started crying.

[@naturazpolski9213]

It doesn't even sound like the combined voices. It's just the voices fron the original version, she only used the videos, but with no sound.

[@zwllce]

@@naturazpolski9213 not just from the original version lok

[@stephanie6346]

Don't feel ridiculous, it literally made me cry

[@CK-vp6hh]

Lived this. Single now and Just turned 70…. I’d so love to send this to the was-band who didn’t want me to go to college because then “ you’ll end up leaving me” So I left him. And did.

[@kathleenunwichtig6702]

You are a Queen for doing that. No man should say what a woman has to do

[@CK-vp6hh]

@@kathleenunwichtig6702 ❤️

[@kitskivich]

Good for you!

[@Natsuk1y]

Such a queen, congratulations

[@Natsuk1y]

@@hulking_presence Oh look, even this video isn't safe from angry men

[@LordHeath1972]

I'm a 51 year-old man who got recommended this song/video by my 15 year-old daughter. By the end of it I had tears in my eyes. What a powerful message/statement this was. Wow. The best song I have heard in the last 10, maybe 20 years.

[@skyesthelimitro]

Thank you for adding fat people, people of color, disabled people, trans men, trans women, and non-binary people in this video. The fact that you acknowledge in this way that the undue stress and labor is intersectional and affects everyone is so wonderful, it made me cry

[@WildEsoterica]

“fat people” is abit rude, just say people of different sizes because smaller people also experience bodyshaming and they were included aswell

[@skyesthelimitro]

@@WildEsoterica I am a fat person, and it's not rude. It's an adjective. "Small people" as you put it have thin privilege, so I'm not going to mention them for the same reason I said disabled and not able-Bodied or that I Said people of color but didn't say white people. Learn about body positivity and fat liberation, then come back to me

[@BadLuckMoon]

Damn right.

[@evil_radfem9162]

trans “women” aka men can not relate to this

[@skyesthelimitro]

@@evil_radfem9162 there are literally trans women in this video. Paris Paloma supports trans rights. If you don't like it, then you can't like her music

[@yayforbooks4151]

I am not a mother, but I am an eldest daughter, and a survivor. I struggle everyday with being a product of that environment. Easy prey no more.

[@stupidlovergirl]

real

[@Natsuk1y]

@@hulking_presence looks like you were a late one

[@vickielynn770]

Yes! This right here! True words spoken that I can relate to well

[@fidellerosa]

eldest daughters unite!!!!

[@amandadadesky5192]

Mother and eldest daughter and survivor, here: I see you, and you are valid. As you say. . .easy prey no more. 🤝🫂

[@saiflbbh]

I'm a guy, but my mother went through hell because of my father. I want to scream this song on top of my lungs in his face. Edit: thanks alot for the comforting replies. Also I'm just 16 if anyone's wondering

[@arkarupbasumallik]

YESSS

[@ravensnest9486]

KING SHIT !!! AN ALLY !!!! WE LOVE YOU SIR

[@UnseelieRose]

Yes! This song is about the struggle of women, but that doesn't mean only women can sing it. Your mom raised a good son.

[@jahnavirainlover]

YOU DROPPED THIS 👑, KING !!!

[@RoseBeariess]

I’m a woman however my father is exactly who I want to scream this to. I want to scream it over and over until he understands

[@marzomber8723]

As a 63 year old widow, I lost a wonderful husband too soon, 4 years ago. I scream this for my mom, my grandmother. I saw what they went through. Thank you for this beautiful & powerful song with all the beautuful voices.

[@leahsmith2078]

Yes, girls. I’m 34. Love to see it. It’s not about hating men, it’s about being treated like a human and pushing for what’s right for us and the next generations.

[@reyfairburn5023]

My face and voice in the song that has gotten me through the process of divorcing my abusive ex-husband, you have no idea how much this means to me. Thank you Paris for this and everything you create ❤️❤️❤️

[@rootedreinvention]

Mid-divorce from my own - this was my most listened to song of 2023 and we have got this.

[@The_Mighty_Red]

❤❤❤

[@AzariahMarinaStarcaster]

At the time I'm typing this, there's 999 likes on this comment. 999 is an angel number representative of new beginnings and the ending of cycles. I thought this would be a something you'd like to hear. ❤

[@sunflowerwittchy9126]

Now that is healing!

[@valeriekhall]

@@rootedreinvention I wish you both freedom, healing, rebirth, & an absolute resurgence!!!! *any wanted hugs*

[@bbaepsae]

This feels like an "I hear you" to all the women who had (and those who still have) to live in silence; scared, resigned, reduced to a secondary role for so many years, where they were not a woman; they were just a wife, a mother, a homemaker. Let not forget the sacrifices and everything they endured so that we can have a name of our own today, and let us continue to fight to leave an even better world for the generations to come. I love you all, girls 💜💜

[@hulking_presence]

Being a woman IS being a wife a mother a homemaker.

[@bbaepsae]

@@hulking_presence Sometimes, sometimes is not. It depends on the woman, and what she chooses

[@saruwatarikooji]

@@hulking_presence I can't help but get the feeling that you are part of why this song and video exists...

[@irishcountrygirl78]

​@saruwatarikooji this song is for women who don't want to be mothers or wives and that's fine, it isn't my battle cry, l love motherhood and l love cooking for my family, I'm grateful we have a home and my children have us both in their lives and we are a team in love for 27 years, secondly don't get bitter if you pick a bad life partner and then have children with them. Nobody is forcing any of the above. My mother was God awful, she never wanted children, she treated us as her biggest mistake, l can see her singing along to this song. Motherhood and mothering is the most natural thing in the world to those of us that want it to be. If you resent the idea of it then simply don't procreate, children deserve peace not anger.

[@kaylynnirvinesthetics]

I love you. Thank you for sharing this powerful statement♥

[@loveblackout]

I experienced S/A for the first time when I was 13. I was at a concert with two of my friends and I was wearing tracksuit bottoms and a baggy cardigan. Two older men thought it was completely within their rights to touch all three of us in inappropriate areas. We got away from them quickly and didn’t end up telling anyone until after the concert had ended. I feel angry for my younger self because she didn’t know what to do in that situation. I feel angry that society had allowed her be placed in that situation. This song is a reminder that women are angry and have a right to be so. I would rather scream for a better world than sit in fear of being silenced.

[@hoangkhanh1362]

"We are the granddaughters of the witches you couldn't burn"

[@LinoIsCute_25]

I cried. It was not just tears, they were tears of rage and all of the pent up anger about every single unjust thing that happened and keeps happening to every single woman. Seriously, one of the best works ever, this is SO going to be in my playlist

[@valh339]

Same ❤

[@Junierox]

Same here

[@xdani_thethinkingneko]

Same. 😢

[@wildrose7309]

Same 🥺♥️

[@nikareims85]

Same!

[@misscandlefreak]

Heard this song a month before I filed for divorce after 19 years of abuse. I have chills watching this. Thank you.

[@tafffita]

I'm so proud of you! You got out and that requires strength that I can't even comprehend.

[@LoverOfKafka]

I’m so proud of you that’s amazing I wish you all the best go have fun !!! 💞💞💞💞

[@JS-kx6um]

you are amazing to have survived all of that, I truly wish you the best

[@user2684]

So so proud of you !! Please take care and stay safe 💕

[@anyathornqvist4602]

Please take care and have the best life!

[@HoneyyPato]

This song is my Roman empire, constantly

[@lilpetz500]

Right??? It's so artful. The chorus is so incredible that I forget about the power in the verses. There's all the incredible restraint and compassion we constantly express, working so hard to calmly address all this obvious pain so damn patiently, and for some, in the way that comes most naturally, and it builds to such a battle cry. Showing that it's clear that we need to drop the expectation that we owe pleasantness and respectability, and literally scream it at the system for them to even notice. We need to practically threaten to stop making the world go around just to even start securing equality. That it doesn't even have to involve tearing anyone down past their needs or even their luxuries, literally all they have to give up are the things that COST OUR PAIN.

[@meggiemills3602]

As a Palestinian who has seen countless times of SA happening in Gaza now and all around the west bank, where I'm from, seeing the keffiyeh brought tears to my eyes. A pregnant woman was just SAed in front of her husband, sons and male relatives in Al-Shifa hospital. They told her male family that they would shoot anyone who closed their eyes. She and her unborn baby did not survive.

[@mariegauthier5354]

Sending you lots of love, we feel so helpless that our government are supporting this...

[@clavesseptem7223]

Damn, I hope... I don't know how to say it. But sending you a lot of love and please know, many of us may be far away but we're behind you.

[@meggiemills3602]

@mariegauthier5354 Yeah being an American Palestinian just adds more pain. Like I feel betrayed in a way. I have never been more ashamed of being born in the US.

[@meggiemills3602]

@@clavesseptem7223 Thank you 💗

[@leas.5596]

I am so sorry.

[@lucieiii6618]

Just a reminder that this song is for us women and young girls, but also to not forget the women and children in Palestine, Sudan and Congo. Feminism is linked to equality and for that the genocides need to end. Edit: If you see comments supporting israhell do not respond. Also I ask those to do research clearly on what is happening, it take less than 5 mins to educate yourself on the right side of history. I may not be Palestinian, congolese or sudanese but Im a child of Srilankan tamil refugees who fled after facing a similar ethnic cleasing in Srilanka. Let countries and religions not divide us, people deserve to live and don't let ignorance win. From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free.

[@witchy2662]

may p4lest!ne be free

[@AragornElessar]

yes! No one is free until all of us are free.

[@rebekahrutledge1633]

Exactly, white feminism is not feminism.

[@user-oy4sj2yz4w]

And let's not forget the Israeli women AND men who are being held hostage

[@danaslitlist1]

💕💕💕💕

[@strega0]

2:28 That panel on the left is Artemisia Gentileschi's painting of Judith Beheading Holnoferes. That's a nice touch. Y'all got to look up Artemisia her story is incredible. Already a talented artist at a very young age, her life was thrown in chaos when she was sexually assaulted by a friend of her father's. During the following trial that ensued, she had to endure torture in court so to prove that she wasn't lying about her accusations. It is said that she painted Judith as a response to this trauma. She even depicts herself as Judith and her rapist as Holnoferes.

[@Violet_Jedi_Sylveon]

Artemisia Gentileschi is incredible, her art has so much emotion in it,

[@Talkingcrowlikething29]

I got chills when that painting came up. I knew it was Artemisia’s 🧡

[@RavenSutcliffe]

Her father was a painter too, and people constantly tried to "prove" that she was passing his paintings off as hers because a woman couldn't be so good. Also in re: SA, look up her "Susannah and the Elders" and compare it to the same subject painted by men. She KNEW, and most of them very obviously didn't. In the same way that her Judith is the only one I've seen who struggles with her whole body instead of being daintily removed from the blood of the task.

[@strega0]

@@RavenSutcliffe oh yeah. Susannah and the Elders are incredible too.

[@NOJuStNo707]

I just finished reading the book of tobit Judith and Holnoferes today what the (he was not a human apparently)

[@kiaracoffin2469]

This song helped me realize I was dating an emotionally abusive narcissist. Broke up with him recently and saved myself from more pain and misery. This song helped me fight for myself. I'm grateful this song exists, this artist exists, otherwise I would have never realized my worth and that I would rather be alone than be treated poorly and taken for granted ever again.

[@MamaSea888]

Good for you sister 💪 ❤️‍🔥👏 I’ve been free for 4 years, after 25 years marriage! Celibate for 7, it feels amazing ❤️‍🔥

[@little_clown_boy]

i love this all the videos they leave no one out, black, white, Hispanic, wheelchair, trans, skinny, fat, artist, cosplayer, musician,dancer, archer, emo, girly girl, woodland child, makeup artist, young, old, teenager, hijab, Asian, EVERY LOVED SOUL

[@little_clown_boy]

@@raffaeragxxx15273 yess yes ofc i will add that!

[@haileyt857]

I say Medusa should be one of the main symbols to this movement - she was assaulted, then cursed, and eventually killed because of her curse. All because of an entitled male God. Another could be Eris, a symbol of female rage, though I can't think of imagery/symbols for her.

[@russergee49]

She’s not really the best symbol, as in most and the oldest myths she was just a creature, no curse involved, and her death only happened because Perseus was trying to save his mother from a forced marriage. I’m also uncomfortable with the colonial implications of taking symbols from other cultures and co-opting them for other meanings.

[@kermitfreak193]

That doesn’t have anything to do with colonizing 😂

[@jiejiii]

@@kermitfreak193colonizing?? huh?

[@celseac8107]

In Greek mythology Medusa was never a raped woman. You must be thinking of the much later Roman writer Ovid.

[@umhi9778]

​@@russergee49We can hold onto the cursed version of the story for the movement. Symbols and stories are what you make of them. Medusa is a powerful intimidating and recognizable symbol by default. We should use that.

[@michellegoodman2007]

I showed my husband (2nd marriage) and he understood what i went through for the first 30 years of my life. He said he was sorry i had to go through that and cried when he saw all of the women in the video. He is amazing and was raised by a warrior of a woman. Im thankful everyday to have a partner now and not a "master".

[@Natsuk1y]

@@hulking_presence says you who had no love to begin with

[@esmaypintor]

@@hulking_presence and you scream peasant behavior.

[@MichaelJohnson-kq7qg]

​@@hulking_presencejust because you have a penis, doesn't mean you have to be one.

[@user-de6dk5ji2m]

Why am i crying once more but now over your comment. Omg what a man

[@michellegoodman2007]

@@user-de6dk5ji2m he is an amazing man who had amazing parents raise him to the man he is today. His father was such an astounding man as well.

[@caitaldrich]

"its not love if you force her" love that

[@Baa975]

Wow

[@Kondzino]

When it comes to love. Who forces who?

[@tarakennedy2512]

“Emotional torture”…I’m so happy it was put into words. Abuse is not just fists flying and plates smashing. It’s invalidation. It’s stress. It’s accusations. It’s manipulation. It’s silence. It’s repetition of the same harsh words over and over and over again. I’ve dealt with so much stress from relationships where they take out their incompetence and insecurities on me, because I was their “nurse”. I was their “mother”. Sometimes I felt I was going crazy from it…somehow I always found the strength to leave, but it’s taken its toll on me. I no longer recognize myself sometimes. They’re gone, but the memories and residual stress are still there. My favourite book quote of all time is this: “Heed my words, daughter, if you ever mean to be happy: never give yourself to a man.” “No, Mama, I never will.” (Pope Joan)

[@ThatOneNerdGirly]

Chills, tears. The pain of our ancestors and sisters distilled. Just amazing.

[@Meepsmeep]

I can't even put into words the feeling this song gives me. Immense rage, the urge to cry, mixed with a powerful feeling of something. All I can think of when I listen is my father. He is currently serving an 8 year prison sentence for trying to violently kill me and my mom on December 15th 2021. It happened 6 days after my birthday, 10 days before Christmas. He did it because my mom wanted a divorce. Why did she want a divorce? He cheated on her with a 19 yr old girl while her mother was dying. It wasn't the first time and he was 50. He's always been emotionally/ verbally/ financially abusive to me and my mom. The day he tried to kill us I fought him off with my bare hands and lived to tell the tale. I think this song gives me the same rage I had when I picked him up off my mom by his neck. The worst part was... his family took his side. My grandmother paid 25,000 dollars to get him out on bail. My brother and aunts disowned me, saying we deserved what he did to us for trying to leave. Some men need to go to hell and burn.

[@bagel_bandanna]

You and your Mother have endured so much.

[@sarajanssens1082]

Absolute monster. So proud of you and your mum. Keep that rage burning 🕯️

[@circe_from_aeaea]

He deserves more than prison, he deserves to rot in agony. You and your mother are so so brave. Keep on living bravely, your strength and will is inspiring and touching. Lots of love❤️

[@blob73]

omg this was one hell of a story literally jaw dropped to the floor so much strength to you and your mum babes

[@vk2ig]

Sounds like you're better off not having anything to do with his side of the family - they sound toxic.

[@celestewoodworth5627]

Hearing one person sing this sounds like righteous anger. Hearing hundreds sing this sounds like righteous fury.

[@ElizabethMcLachlan-ws8nn]

Now imagine if there was thousands of

[@Galaksio-brulanta]

I was abused for 16 years at the hands of my family and then my partner and his family.. I am the youngest daughter in my family, but yet I am the rock. I am the strong one. I have carried burden after burden and not been allowed to breathe and feel and speak my mind.. till now. I have been out of my abusive family's home for 9 years now, and out of this relationship with my ex for almost a year, and the partner I have now? Absolutely wonderful. He knows everything about my past and still sees my worth and how brightly I shine, he understands I will not put up with being a mother and maid to him or anyone else again, if they are not my own offspring, should I choose to have them. I plan on teaching my children, should I have them, that they are valid. Their voices are important and no one should ever make them feel less than. Settling because you think you love someone? While they mistreat you? It won't fly, because my children will know their worth.

[@Taesarra]

This song became an anthem that helped me begin to heal from my ex-husband's abuse. And now it's grown into an anthem for all my sisters and siblings out there who feel the same, for our mothers and ancestors who could not sing for themselves, and for our future generations - I cried first hearing the original because I felt like I wasn't alone in all my hurt anymore. I cry harder now because of all the pent up rage and frustration we all feel. You all did wonderfully and this is brilliant. We're in this together and have each other's backs ♥

[@rootedreinvention]

I took this song to therapy and was like "how does this artist know what I went through with my ex-husband?" We've Got This.

[@celes42017]

Same. My husband constantly made fun of my appearance. He made fun of my ideals, expected me to run the house while working a full-time job, and then wouldn’t help me with my son even though I told him we were a packaged deal. Been divorced over 3 years now. Best thing I ever did relationship wise. Much power to you, my friend. ❤️

[@crystalriley8127]

WE RAGE THEN WE RISE ✊🏻✊🏼✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿

[@hollihaddock6106]

Yes! Women of the world unite! We have been under attack FOREVER and now America is doubling down! Fight! Truth to Power! Love to all my fellow sisters in this country (USA) and around the world!

[@onstandbi-]

WOMEN WILL WIN WHEN UNITED!!

[@Shazoneable]

ABSOLUTELY 🤝

[@Yoursistersazz]

You will fall 😂🤡

[@Justuas]

cringe power fantasy

[@Liltrippy777]

Thank youu for the opportunity to be part of this video , when I saw I was in the video (ginger w blue eyeliner) I ran to my mother and jumped up and down to show her✨

[@jessica_nocturna0612]

Seeing the emotion in these women as they don't just sing these lyrics but FEEL these lyrics... It's both a horrible feeling that so many women can share these feelings and a wonderful feeling that we can find strength together in sharing it

[@DanieLagunes]

I'm alone in my apartment watching this and I start to cry, because it's beautiful and powerful, but also because it still hurts, for me, for my mother, my grandma and all women out there. This is SO AMAZING!!!

[@bulgeun-wihyeob]

i almost cried seeing trans men included in this video. i am so, so thankful that our voices are heard and that we are seen for all of the female rage still burning in our souls. thank you, miss paloma. this song means so much to me

[@Beyondthebinarybrain]

I feel the same way. I’m not a woman, but I grew up as a girl and I still have feminine rage from being objectified and pushed into a box like every other woman. It’s so important for our voices to be heard as well. So much strength and love to you

[@ChaosNova77]

This

[@katiegrossman2338]

I’ve struggled with this a lot and the worry that identifying with these things that so many women experience and this rage means that I’m not actually nonbinary and I’ve been faking it and it brings me a lot of comfort to see other trans people both in this video and in the comments validating me and this struggle so I just want to say thank you

[@stripedpolkadots8692]

@@katiegrossman2338patriarchy is a system that affects everyone! Don’t blame yourself for the things malicious systems and ignorant people have pushed onto you regardless of who you are, because that’s what they do.

[@po3alily]

u people need help. r u a girl or a boy then lmao clearly a woman. u can dress however u want and have whatever name u want and u are still a woman. u dont have to denounce being a woman to cut your hair short and be named Kai

[@lindsaymcdonald8790]

I’m in tears watching all you beautiful young women start to stand up. I’m 42, my generation has been instrumental in fighting for equality on many fronts, but it seems that women’s fight for equality has backslid (especially here in the US) to unacceptable ground. I’m so proud of Gen Z for picking it back up to carry it even further than what Millennials could do. We are tired of the toxic masculinity and being told we don’t have autonomy over our bodies. It’s time to put an end to that. ❤

[@Elisa-1618]

I can hear little kids singing in the background. This isn’t just the old generation. This is everyone woman who has lived. We demand to be listened to.

[@Pipikins321]

I'm here in tears because this song is the final nail in the coffin of my belief that I will probably die alone. But it's also the realisation that I never have and never will be thanks to the bravery of my fellow women.

[@vickielynn770]

I can totally relate but I'd rather die alone than keep the generational cycle going with children who could possibly have hated me like I was with my parents

[@nicoleshindel1548]

Everyone dies alone!!! And men die sooner so it shouldn't even be a thought!!

[@dinelialeal6308]

really?

[@saumyasawleshwarkar8259]

omg i made it!! (3:01, bottom left) i love this song so much, it's insane how much meaning every single line means to me but I'm happiest about how I'm doing the "just to attend him" part here because every man who has ever wronged me has forced me to forgive him because "who else will entertain me? :(" and teenage me spent years wondering when i would stop being an object to have fun with. this song touches on so so much of experiences and abuse i went through and it helps me channel my thoughts and feel the rage for once, without denying myself the right to do so. thank you

[@cwironcorps]

Very cool, glad you were able to be in it! Just discovered the song yesterday and love it.

[@Natsuk1y]

You're so prettyy!! I hope you're doing well

[@hulking_presence]

lol and you've been with those guys, you chose it. Meanwhile a lot of guys who wouldn't say something like this and you wont even look at them. Cry me a fucking river, fucking eternal victim of everything

[@Elly339]

Eyeroll girl?

[@nickchambers3142]

Paris, I hope you know just how much this means to my students. I teach ballet, and I've heard stories from girls as young as 10 or 11 feeling invalidated, objectified, and frustrated by male teachers, casting directors, and even their peer's parents. I've heard the teenaged girls venting in their dressing room about how a female-dominated art is still so marked by ridiculously high standards, the invisible labor that doesn't apply to male dancers. The pain that is normalized so that they have to smile. The pressure to keep a slender figure that applies more to women than men. The reading between lines needed to try and keep a position in a company. I want to make dance culture more equitable, so that by the time those 10 year-olds are grown, they inherit a world that is healthier both physically, mentally, and emotionally. Keep talking, keep yelling. The ballet world is listening, and screaming with you.

[@talonashryver3094]

This feels like a revolution. A war cry. As. It. Should.

[@fernflowerss]

Someone mentioned this song being a battlecry and hearing this being sung by a big chorus, with the more cinematic drums, it really does make it feel like a battle song being sung by an army ready to go to war, Keep fighting sisters and siblings we are one in this

[@atkatmakes]

I have yet to listen to this song without crying. Both at home when I was married, and at work in a male-dominated industry - this hits every part of my life. We can't stop - the fierceness of this cacophony is so beautiful

[@isamaryna3415]

Was recently in the hospital for an emergency surgery and this song kept playing in my head. An absolote masterpiece

[@girlfromthevillage403]

This song makes me think of so many women. But the one that I think of that is very close to home is my grandmother( my mother's mother). She was forced to marry my grandfather after becoming pregnant out of wedlock. She tried to remove the pregnancy in some back alley as it was not legal yet in the UK. It didn't work obviously but she was willing to risk her life rather than spend her life with a man she didn't love. She was forced into a life she HATED. She loved her children but couldn't express it properly because she was in so much distress every day of her life. She also ended up having a son who only lived one day which only exacerbated her distress. She ended up smoking herself to death from the stress after developing COPD. She died in agony in her early 60s. Such a waste of a beautiful woman who deserved so much more. She deserved to live a life that she chose, even if that meant my mother, siblings, myself and my children didn't exist

[@SableCatDog]

Also I'm a trans guy and disabled, post time wheelchair user, and the fact you have included both trans and disability based feminist in here is incredible. I can't tell you how much that means to me. To so many of us. Thank you so much!

[@voiceofcrime]

yes go off king!

[@Nixmeri2411]

Feminism is about equality for all, you are included in that. This song is about the female rage we have all felt (including trans men forced into a box labelled “girl”) and is a battle cry against the oppressions we have all felt, just because we can’t see it as clearly we still feel it!

[@spanishDoll1]

I love that too.

[@calvotama6460]

​@@Nixmeri2411Be careful about assuming all transmen share this very white concept in our experiences.

[@LovesBugs]

Masc Nonbinary here, also disabled. This song resinates with me as well, seeing disabled and trans people in this made me tear up istg.

[@caIyps0]

it's the pomegranates it's the tears falling on an embroidered hem it's the shaking hands holding a teacup it's the running feet on a field of wildflowers it's the reflection you see in shattered glass it's the lunar cycle and the blood you shed it's the swan trying to take flight it's the quiet power held inside you in a loud room it's a divine mother gently whispering directions in your soul it's the divine feminine. it's guiding you, it's guiding me. it unites us in a way that no sister ever has to walk alone.

[@xXxIntoxiKatexXx]

As someone raised in radical evangelical Christianity, this song aches in my bones. I got out, not without emotional scars, but I feel such dread for the hundreds of thousands of girls and women living in what I lived. Hearing what I heard. Being taught they are nothing more than at best accessories or helpers, and at worst "temptation" for a man.

[@TheWelchcat]

I have never seen so many, many, many of us together at the same time, feeling the same thing, shouting the same words. This is a power.

[@mysticalbutterflies9168]

you can hear the fear, the pain, the anger in every single person's voice, it's so incredibly powerful

[@aubrisfox]

as a trans person (FtM), the clip saying "just because im trans doesnt mean i dont get this" is very relatable. i think a lot of people forget that just because an AFAB-trans-person is no longer a cis woman, doesnt mean that they havent been/arent being affected by the patricarchy. same thing with trans women (MtF). i may not be a girl, but this song really resonates with me as someone who lived his early life as one, and who's had women in his family be abused/mistreated by men thank you paris :)

[@Life-uu5yo]

For real! I’m AFAB nonbinary, and this resonates within my very soul. Through everything I’ve experienced, im enraged by the way afab and trans fem people were and are still treated.

[@3ichenglish]

My heart bleed for Palestinian women who lost everything but have to keep going 😢

[@rachellukes9149]

Words cannot describe how this music makes me feel. It's primal rage at its feminine finest

[@Arrow-zc7mq]

I am 13 years old and I honestly hate how much I relate to this. It’s not fair how our society treats women and afab people, especially children.

[@JustCass945]

Same :(

[@sarabeachpeach]

Sweet girl, I'm sorry we couldn't do more to fix things before you got here. I'm trying to fix what I can, but we are stronger together and I will fight for this world to be better for you, and the children that will follow you.

[@bri.b6448]

Children should never have to take up mantles. But then, have women ever been allowed to be children? The fact that these words are flowing into your cup, instead of more lies that feminism is dead, is hope.

[@Oakley_boakley]

​@@sarabeachpeach I'm not the original commenter but my god did this comment make me cry. I'm also 13, and it is so sad that we are still fighting this fight. Every generation, it never ends. I wish all the women here and all the women who aren't here to listen to this song the best.

[@CharlieMStar]

13 here too, I’m a trans male but it still hurts and I get it, I’m not sure if I can quite give an opinion on this anymore but wether I’m in this fight as a victim anymore or as a protector I’ll be fighting for us all. You girls and women rock, we can be strong together,

[@alicehatch1001]

The feminine rage that I’ve pushed down my whole life- I’m now 43 & it’s coming out. I can’t control it. My mom had 6 children, she was the breadwinner, she took care of my father, he’s physically sick now so she nurses him, she feeds him, she basically raised all of her kids alone… he just complained and yelled at everyone (especially my mom) my whole life. My older sister is with a man who hurts her. But he controls her financially and has made it nearly impossible to leave him. Most of my own relationships have been me swallowing my own needs, wants, desires… always putting the needs of a MAN ahead of my own. I’m so angry! It’s so conditioned that relationships have a built in unbalanced power dynamic… when I first heard this song and actually looked up the lyrics I had to take a minute and cry. It hits so many personal and also cultural notes. Thank you. I love all of you. We have each other. Our rage and grief is valid!! We’ve been second class citizens since the beginning of time. Love to all LGBTQ and anyone marginalized. Huge love to Palestine! Ceasefire now! ❤️🍉❤️🍉

[@nouriixo]

so much rage behind their voices and i'm here for it.

[@justonearepa]

While I’m sad my video didn’t make the cut, I’m just so endlessly grateful for the existence of this song. Thank you Paris for turning this song into a MOVEMENT!

[@rylee8165]

Hey your not alone mine didn’t make the cut either

[@fashiondiva99]

Mine didn't either

[@marz6794]

Mine didn’t either but that’s okay. We have all these amazing people to represent us and all we’ve gone through. Also I hope you’re well!

[@SOmeth1ngT]

Mine didn’t either unfortunately

[@shannonmundorff3807]

Mine didn't either sadly.

[@haarigebratwurst6739]

honestly we men don't deserve women. can't change my mind. much love and strength to every woman reading this.

[@liaspring7]

And so we meet again :D

[@haarigebratwurst6739]

@@liaspring7 omg :D never thought we might meet again! but honestly glad we did, you have an awesome taste in music!

[@liaspring7]

@@haarigebratwurst6739 Thanks, you too :)

[@liaspring7]

@@haarigebratwurst6739 Thanks, you too :)

[@Sabzworld77]

U dropped this 👑

[@Paola-fn3rk]

Omg. I was that. And now alone with 3 kids. I needed this years ago. Thank you!

[@TechOutAdam]

I took that never lifts a finger in two ways. Figuratively and literally. That he doesn’t contribute but also so he doesn’t raise his hand to hit her. It’s a brutal line.

[@witchy2662]

the inclusivity... the power... the emotion... this made me cryyy aaaah great job everyone involved and tysm paris paloma for creating this and giving visibility to all women, including trans women and women in countries where wars or genocide are happening :")

[@ichoosethepen113]

I saw the word cacophony and had to watch it. This really is a cacophony of voices, of stories, and of pent-up pain and anger at the system that’s been in place for centuries. This is a battle cry ladies (trans women included)-let’s make this cacophony into a storm of voices until things change. We will not be silenced. We will not be denied our rights. We will not be ignored, or avoided, or looked down upon. This song is a movement now, let’s make sure it succeeds!!!

[@lilpetz500]

I love the word choice too. One of the biggest points behind this song is that our pain isn't supposed to be beautiful, it's not supposed to be enjoyed, IT'S NOT SUPPOSED TO BE HAPPENING. All these stories are a horrifying mess of cries that we should be hearing. And yet despite how extensive and brutal it all is, they somehow harmonise into a song, because something inside all of them, the root of them all, is the same. It's the same damn pain over and over again, and maybe the system thinks it's fine because it just can't hear it. Because it tries to block it out and tell us to be quieter, make the stories prettier. We deserve a cacophony, not even as a treat, as a right.

[@PunchDrunkLizzy]

Same reason I clicked on it. You don't often see that word used

[@Notfineenough]

"it's not an act of love if you made her" SAY IT LOUDER!!!!

[@hard2_imagine]

im not even a teenager yet, but i would still like to share my experience with the men in my family. when I was 4 i had to watch my grandfather hold my own mother at chokehold after a fight they were in. I remember screaming and crying while my grandfather strangled her and my grandma held me back. also when i was the same age, my father would give me baths and wash "that area" even when i complained it hurt later on. he also abused my mother and my ex-stepmother. the women in my family would very likely relate to this song if they heard it. they've all had a story with other men and so have every woman, teenager, or even child like me. because of these events this song will always build up a huge rage inside my lungs that just makes me want to scream the lyrics each time. and one last thing, thank you Paris.

[@thatonemoealessostan8292]

As a man, all I want to say is that women absolutely deserve equal chances to EVERYTHING. There shouldn’t be a singular woman left outside of something because of their disability or anything else limiting them. Stan women.

[@helena_augusta]

Interesting fact: the trucking industry does not discriminate. I make the same amount of money as the men with the same amount of experience. Employers in the industry welcome women because we are safe drivers. Yet we still make up less than 10% of drivers.

[@lolneo8766]

⁠@@helena_augustaYou can only say that for yourself not every other woman might have that privilege or experience but that’s pretty cool. 👍🏽 I remember working at a kitchen where this one woman was a single mother as well as a cook and was being treated unfairly not getting paid as much as the male cook. The woman got yelled at during an overtime shift for something extremely petty and the male cook got so pissed off at the manager he tore off his shirt and cussed out the guy 😂 when the manager still refused to treat the woman with respect the guy looked at the woman and said I quit and walked out shirtless. The woman told me the next day she’s was quitting at the end of her shift because the guy told her he was working at a dispensary and invited her to work there. I never saw them again after that but I remember thinking they were crazy and bada$$ at the same time! 😂

[@ElliottWaveAnalysis]

we pretty much have equal opportunity and access now, it's the violence we want to stop, and the entitlement of men making laws about what we can and cannot do to our own bodies, that has to change

[@TheMehamil85]

This song made me realize just how much of my mother's soul my father extracted from her. I remember being told how my grandmother remarried the moment her father-in-law died because he told her he would disinherit her children if she remarried. I remember being told how my other grandmother never divorced her alcoholic husband, she just moved in with the neighbors and they took care of her. I remembered how many times I bent over backward for my partner and he just...didn't care. At all. I'm not going to stand by and watch my daughter deal with this same pain.

[@irishcountrygirl78]

Makes me appreciate my good husband reading these comments, l know my daughter is watching.

[@vixeneris2307]

This song is a battlecry for every woman and girl who has ever been mistreated, even those who wish to hide it. It doesn't matter your colour, creed or who you love, this song is yours. We are linked by our blood. Each and every one of us can shout this cry. We must never let it be silenced by males. They've taken far too much from us.

[@MoonlitBookworm73]

The reason this song is so important is not because it’s good, it’s important because it is shared experience between not only every woman on this planet, but also the women from the past. Our ancestors, ourselves, and our children. All of us can feel this _exact_ same pain, whether or not we have had the same experience, and *that* is what makes this song so important. It shows us the one thing that binds us all together, despite our differences.

[@RoseBeariess]

I loved the original version of this song. Gave me chills. Made me want to fight for my little sister who’s going to grow up in the patriarchy world. She’s already facing it because of our dad. I’ve faced it from him and many others. Doctors, pastors. You name it and I’ve felt it. The thought of her dealing with it too makes my blood boil. But this version… I’m ready to go fight. Scream from the rooftops just to hope people hear. I love this ❤

[@Lets_B_Unique]

This is a battle cry! Paris you need to continue this movement! Make it a protest. Make this go down in damn history. I will march with you. ❤🎉

[@finchblue7322]

I absolutely love love LOVE how intersectional and diverse this video is. There are young people and older people, there are disabled people, people of all cultures and races, attention to Palestinian women, attention trans people (all trans people, yes even trans men). All of us share that experience with feminized labor, that responsibility placed on us, it sticks with us forever, and I'm so glad we are so outspoken about it, and that we are all together in this video. A testament that we need to work together, uplift our most vulnerable voices, and support one another

[@Red_Bolson]

And remember, they want us isolated, and fighting each other for male validation, thats how we are raised. They know how powerful we are together

[@kuhu50]

This song is helping me through my divorce after a decade of emotional labour. It hit me when I heard “if our love ends would that be a bad thing?” And I realised no, not at all. I have listened to this song thousands of times, whenever I got terrified or sad, I knew I had all these women with me.

[@victoriagabay8855]

The rage I feel whenever I listen to this song could light up cities

[@yeehawgaylord7655]

Seeing women of all ages, all races, all cultures, all styles, singing this, and feeling the exact same thing. Grief and rage. It's beautiful in such a haunting way, and I love it.

[@user-bf7zq6lj9r]

This song expresses everything I never could. One of the most important and powerful songs ever written

[@DaisyMcRollin]

why am I crying? so much beauty, power, strength, and rage, and I can only cry.

[@umhi9778]

That's ok. Crying is just another way to process emotion. Feel your emotions and find out what they mean to you. You dont lose out on rage for crying. When you're ready it'll be there for you, as strong as ever. ✊♀ 💕

[@shady_pasta]

THE LITERAL CHILLS I GOT FROM THIS MASTERPIECE

[@bri.b6448]

The Cacophony will ring in my ears as I go to the polls this November in America. We're voting for our lives.

[@lilpetz500]

This right here!! I'm not even American, but voting is more important than ever this time. The world is globalised, when something gains power and influence, it gets amplified and spread across the world. And I desperately hope it will be a movement like this, and not the horrors that the conservative party has us in for, complete with a plan to make it as permanent as possible (Project 2025, we need to become as informed as we can, but with as much care as possible not to crumble under the cruelty they have in for us) We might be taking on more labour than ever not only our independent roles and expectations, but additionally all the work it takes to dismantle all the build up, asap before it gets forced onto the next generation of girls, nbs, trans people, all while carrying the exhaustion of our ancestors too. But that's why we're so united and loud, it's the only way we can pull it all off.

[@Ghost-gm5tm]

"it's not not an act of love if you make her" makes me break down every time, I was in a sexually abusive relationship when I was 18, and eventually I got tired of giving me said no, I was full on SA'd three nights in a row afterwards, and he had me convinced that everything was ok and and gaslighted me into thinking that what happened those nights was consensual. This song makes me feel so much rage it makes me wanna scream

[@vivekkarajasegaran2664]

I'm so sorry that it happened to you... This happened to me as well...I hope you stay strong and never fall for the same trap again...

[@juliapalomares8687]

Just this morning my grandma told me how she had to move out because a man stalked her. Now I cru and rage for her, for my mother, my sister, my girlfriends and me. This song is magical. There's finally a song that allows to express all our female rage.

[@ringomylove]

Just broke up with my husband of 13 years and came out of the closet. This is my anthem. Thank you Paris for gifting us with this incredible song

[@vilshoenheit]

Congrats to you! ❤ the best of luck to you! You deserve everything ❤️

[@mandie492]

Congratulations on welcoming more of yourself into this world

[@Aster_druid]

I was horrified to grow up and have to get married as an eldest daughter in the Evengelical church. Turns out I'm not a woman, but the feminine rage still burns in me. Cheers to all my siblings that get healing from this song. 💪🏼

[@shaneekabatty-cross]

Your a trans male😊

[@SlecnaLiska]

it's scary how beautiful and powerful it is...how beautiful and powerful we are.

[@usingytformusic3366]

As a male, we need more stuff like this showing what women are going through!

[@SmolFoxTrue]

Thank you for supporting us

[@grungeisdead_94]

❤

[@kimb2363]

Thank you for your support. Too many men out there trying to silence us.

[@JustCass945]

This genuinely brought tears to me eyes. My dad was always the type who thought that women have to ‘submit to men’ and will ‘never amount to men’ and it’s so draining and exhausting. When one of my siblings got SAd, he said ‘that’s how the world works, you’ll be ok’ and didn’t even DO anything about it. The relationships I’ve had were even worse, but I’d rather not talk about it. Thank you so much for this.

[@emilyjulia9178]

You and your siblings deserve much better. I hope you got rid of the toxicity and found healthy supportive men in your life who have much more ik common with you then with your dad or any of these other men

[@JustCass945]

@@emilyjulia9178 sadly I’m just a teenager and I’m still living with my dad, but I decided to date girls instead of boys for a while (without my parents knowing since they’re homophobic) but thank you so much

[@celestial_kitten27]

im a non het indian woman and the constant misogyny, abuse and its romanticization and normalization in society has drained me out. hearing this song gives me the courage to continue speaking up for feminism.

[@Iamhere829]

As a bisexual Indian woman...I feel your pain hang in there,Sis.. it's all gonna be alright ❤❤❤

[@findingmyself2446]

I absolutely love this song. As a 19 year old girl living in India, it's exhausting to see how misogyny is so normalized in our society. A lot of Indian men takes pride in the fact that divorce rate is 1% , pretty low in India. That's because our society has made it difficult for women to divorce. The constant belittling and demonization of divorced woman along with the social ostracization of them makes it difficult for them to leave

[@izanblancoqureshy]

IT'S ALMOST TIME OMG

[@Aesop_Citizen]

Says it premieres in 12 hours

[@Aesop_Citizen]

I already know I’m going to love this version.

[@user-xw3ig3eh6p]

Made me cry. Wandering if I'm ever going to meet a man who will respect my personality and won't violate my boundaries💔

[@xZherezitax]

I'm crying on the bus listening to this song on repeat cause i really needed to hear the phrase "is a bad thing if our love dies?" Cause I'm going around that idea since one or two months but still doubtful 😢

[@anna-sleeps]

No but for real, I've watched this a couple times and I feel something completely new to me. I've been to feminist marches before, but with all my anxiety and the noises and chaos I'd never had any really transformative experience there. I'd stay and not run away just because I wanted do my part for the movement, because rationally I knew that was the right thing. Then I'd go back home and resume dissociating from my own experience. With this video, it's the first time I can witness, without being overwhelmed, so many people coming together, showing such raw emotions as they grapple with the expectations/burdens related to femininity that they've felt upon them. It feels like all the people in the video embody a fierce vulnerability that's completely new to me. I'm not proud of this, but as I said, I dissociate a lot, I create stories in my mind about people who are cooler, stronger, less flawed than me. It's hard to explain, but watching this makes me feel like instead, I can face all the dumb sh1t I've accepted in the past (or had to come to terms with, or done out of pressure) without hating that version of myself. It makes me feel like my own story isn't a wasteland that is uncomfortable and pitiful to look at, it's something I can reclaim, and for that I thank y'all

[@acelibrarian]

My midlife crisis manifested as taking up longsword classes. That was where my rage awakened. Because now I have strength. Not a lot, but I have it. I have confidence that with a stick or umbrella in my hand I could lay waste to any man who tried me, and I feel rage for all those years of learned helplessness.