In the wake of the Lindsay Clancy murder trial – a deeply tragic case involving a mother who allegedly murdered her three young children – many women have taken to the internet to post videos expressing their solidarity with Lindsay. Perhaps the most disturbing trend among these videos is women holding their own children, often in tears, with the caption, “Same, Lindsay. Same.”
Alongside that deeply disturbing trend, there has also been a similar rise in videos of women “venting” – screaming into pillows, throwing chunks of ice into a bathtub and otherwise physically expressing their anger. We seem to have lost our grasp on some of the most basic truths about human behaviour, concepts nearly as old as civilisation itself. So today, we’re going to take a look at habit: how repeated actions form our character and why venting is not a real solution to anger.
