Anguish: extreme pain, distress, or anguish(verb)
This is the meaning of the word anguish according to Merriam Webster’s dictionary. I saw this word when I was reading the article “What Feminists Can Do for Boys” by Jessica Velenti. It was in the third paragraph of the article which said “Though feminists have always recognized the anguish that boys face in a patriarchal system, we haven’t built the same structures of support for boys that we have for girls.” The author is claiming that boys suffer and feel pain in a patriarchal system where men are in control. I understood this definition since I looked it up and I see that the author feels that boys suffer under a sysyem where men are in conrol.
