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The Gender Rage Gap

Anger can be a positive emotion, motivating us to achieve our goals, but it also destroys us

19 Dec 2025

Noel Yaxley

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The perfect Christmas gift. A Karen therapy centre™, also known as a rage room, is a place for displacing pent-up anger. Those who feel upset after being denied a chance to speak with the manager can pay to smash items in padded, and often soundproofed, rooms. Simply book a slot, pick up a sledgehammer, and go. Who says capitalism isn’t great? A commercialised catharsis that is less expensive than therapy or divorce lawyers.

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According to an analysis of ten years’ worth of data from the Gallup World Poll, women have become 6 percentage points more angry than men. Forget the gender pay gap, there’s now a gender rage gap.

Rage rooms tend to be packed to the rafters with household junk, including furniture, ceramics, old televisions, and mirrors. But now that we live in hyper-political times, companies are beginning to offer bespoke services. Customers have the chance to destroy an image of three of the most evil men in history at one Halifax location: I’m referring to Donald Trump, JD Vance, and Elon Musk, of course. When Canadian media asked an outraged women why she caved in a portrait of the President with a golf club, she told CTV News that he is “not a very smart man”.

There has been a 50% rise in the number of rage rooms in the United States since the beginning of 2022. There are currently an estimated 750 in America, with California having the highest concentration. Interest has also surged on the other side of the pond. At Activity Dome in south-west England, bookings have increased by 150% on the previous year, with 90% of customers the fairer sex. As one women told The Times of London, “I think more women than men are booking because we’re angrier…”

Women are increasingly angry about men no longer paying attention to them. A glance at social media reveals numerous videos of attractive women complaining that men don’t approach them anymore. In a recent article titled Where Have Men Gone?, the New York Times asked why so many men seemed to have quit dating and being in relationships. It is interesting to note that this divergence began in 2017, the year when #MeToo went mainstream. A decade of feminist narratives, pearl-clutching over toxic masculinity, and the ubiquitous threat of the “male gaze” have all contributed to a reign of terror that reframed frightened young men struggling to talk to girls as participating in rape culture. A quarter of men aged 18 to 30 in the United States believe that asking a woman out for a drink constitutes sexual harassment.

Men use rage rooms too. Anger can be a positive emotion, motivating us to achieve our goals, but it also destroys us, contributing to earlier deaths, suicides, and more. So perhaps it is time to put down the crowbar. Merry Christmas!

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