do you have any latent anger?

[Cynthia]

Anger is typically a reation-to-an-emotional-reaction or a most-feasible way to express self... so more likely a 'mask' than honest emotional response.. my primary emotion that I repressed was anger that came out as sadness and being weepy. If it's used as a mask due to difficulty being honest about what one really feels, that could be an imbalance, no? E.g., some women are socialized to present 'sad' and 'cry' bc it's unacceptable to present angry, tho anger is their primary/latent emotions.

Alternately, some women are socialized to not show sad or cry because that is viewed as manipulative and men know how to deal with/respond to anger (since it's what they've been socialized to) and don't know how to deal with sad/weepy. This is more of what I have run into.