especially those whose voices might disturb the peace a€" has always been that things will go better for them if they keep their mouths shut. In my forthcoming book about the political consequences of womend€™s rage, I write about a 16th-century torture device called the brank, which was used to muzzle a defiant or cranky woman by keeping her head and jaw clamped in a metal cage. Some of the iron bridles included tongue depressors; some of those had spikes on the bottom to pierce the flesh. When I visited the Tower of London last year, during the week that followed the publication of stories about Harvey Weinsteinde€™s serial sexual predation 4€" told at long last by women whose tongues had been loosed 4€" I saw an internally spiked metal neck collar on display. It was labeled a 4€ecollar for torturea€ and described as something to be Aa€eput around the necks of scolding or wayward wives.a4€","type":"text"}, {"identifier":" anf-body- 9", "inlineTextStyles": [{"range": {"length":1363,"start":0},"textStyle":" anf-ts- 11"}],"layout":"bodyContentLayout", "role":"body", "text":"The censure of women who open their mouths in dissent or dissatisfaction or anything less than grinning compliance with the power structures that subjugate them is so common as to be the stuff of everyday catcalling. And we dond€™t just hear the reminders 4€" A€eCome on, baby, smile a€" you look so pretty when you smiled€ a4€" on the street. During the 2016 primaries, MSNBC host Joe Scarborough chided Hillary Clinton, after a set of primary victories, a€esSmile. You just had a big night.ad€ And in 2018, commenting on Nancy Pelosid€™s grim visage during Trumpd€™s first State of the Union, Sarah Huckabee Sanders said on CNN, a€el think she should smile a lot more often.a€ When women like Pelosi and Clinton do open their mouths, theyd€™re quickly cast as shrill and monstrous harpies. Do a Google image search of any powerful women in politics or public life, and youd€™ll see that their ideological opp