It rends the social fabric. Yet we know that, oddly enough, anger is at home in literature, which gives rage a voice to chill the bone. For men, not women. Stereotyped as preternaturally aggressive, in literature men are granted much larger berth for their anger than women, who are said to be cooperative creatures, soothing and pacific. No one listens to Cassandra, and the Delphic Oracle is something of a nut.
Angry women are shrews, scolds, nags, and hags.
Even the angry mourners are troublesome, Antigone being a prime example, although generally women are permitted anger over the loss of a loved one, especially a child. But Mather absolved Duston to prove a providential point and punish Catholic Indians in the bargain. By the nineteenth century, Duston's action was justified or condemned solely in terms of domestic settlement. Nathaniel Hawthorne, on the other hand, would have none of it. And it is her anger, not her actions, that is condemned.