When Gratitude Becomes Toxic

Toxic gratitude is not a beautifully genuine and private practice but a public expectation. The thankfulness that women are required to display, visibly and consistently, not because it reflects their inner state but because its absence is read as arrogance, entitlement or a failure to understand their place.

This kind of gratitude is not a gift but a hefty tax which most women have been paying for so long, they have forgotten it is not a natural feature of the landscape.