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Every month or so, the Woman Has Said a Bad Word circus comes to town. This time around, the woman is Greta Thunberg, who has been a target of countless powerful misogynist pricks since her early teens.
Good for you, Greta
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Good for you, Greta
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And I don't give a flying fuck what she said to that misogynist prick.
If you think she owes a self-described misogynist any form of "sensitivity" and you're attacking her for "body shaming" him, you've got it upside down.
Fuck him and his small dick energy.
If you think she owes a self-described misogynist any form of "sensitivity" and you're attacking her for "body shaming" him, you've got it upside down.
Fuck him and his small dick energy.
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy.
Care less about the feelings of misogynist fucks and more about the actual violence they incite.
Care less about the feelings of misogynist fucks and more about the actual violence they incite.
Every month or so, the Woman Has Said a Bad Word circus comes to town. This time around, it's Jacinda Ardern who called a man what he probably is feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man.
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The revolution is not polite.
Mona Eltahawy: I’m serious about women fighting back. I want patriarchy to fear us irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
Mona Eltahawy: I’m serious about women fighting back. I want patriarchy to fear us irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics vice.com/en/article/xgq…
I LOVE that I still live rent free in the minds of these Australian racist, misogynist fucks, three years after I scared them shitless and turned their country upside down with a TV episode that their ostensible democracy banned. Ha! Cry more! And fuck off.
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?" 10 months ago I said that on an Australian TV show. A bunch of white men complained and the episode was banned.
I remind you that soon after airing live, it was banned and has never been unbanned even though the govt media body cleared it for replay.
Fuck civility
Fuck civility
From the chapter on Profanity. Who determines what is “civil” and what is “rude?” Who benefits from upholding those social codes? 
So fuck the royal family, fuck the monarchy, and abolish the monarchy everywhere #AbolishTheMonarchy #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
It is imperative to understand how civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority—patriarchy, whiteness, other forms of privilege—and that we are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority
This is one of my most popular essays: Why I Say Fuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics - VICE vice.com/en/article/xgq…
I launched my newsletter so that I could write as I speak and forgo this “civility” fuckery.
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Fuck civility:
This—from November 2019–has been viewed 1.8 million times and I am thrilled.
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This—from November 2019–has been viewed 1.8 million times and I am thrilled.
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Fuck civility.
And this—from January 2020–has been viewed 4 million times and I am thrilled.
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And this—from January 2020–has been viewed 4 million times and I am thrilled.
🎥 @rerutled
#WhyISayFuck
These are clips from Australian TV show Q&A that are making the rounds again. Always good to see! I remind you that soon after airing live, it was banned and has never been unbanned even though the govt media body cleared it for replay.
Fuck civility
Fuck civility
“How long must we wait for men and boys to stop murdering us, to stop beating us and to stop raping us? How many rapists must we kill?"
Had my 1st public fight in ages last night and wow am I foul mouthed! And woe anyone who thinks they can talk about me & my dinner companion loud enough for me to hear and think I won’t educate them in just how foul mouthed. I enjoyed iterations of “Fuck” I yelled at this person
As @rerutled, my dinner companion can tell you, she was certainly not expecting it. I actually asked her, before I unleashed,"Do you have a problem?" and she actually said "Yes, I do." And that was her first mistake of the night because I taught what an actual problem with me was
As you can see, her dinner companion left because she couldn't take fuckface up there in the video anymore and a neighbouring table also told her to shut up.
Give me a racist who goes low with me and I'll show you just how utterly into the gutter I'll take them, and then more.
Give me a racist who goes low with me and I'll show you just how utterly into the gutter I'll take them, and then more.
Once while standing in line at Denver airport security, a white man — another passenger waiting to go through — demanded I “prove” I was a U.S. citizen. “Fuck you!” was my immediate response. #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Another white man immediately and predictably chimed in: “Language! Language!” But what is really more offensive here, the first man’s white supremacist fuckery or my language?
If you think that’s a serious question, then fuck you too.
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If you think that’s a serious question, then fuck you too.
#WhyISayFuck
I say “fuck” because that’s what racism deserves. I am from the “If they go low, I will fucking come for them” school of thought. I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not acknowledge my full humanity. #WhyISayFuck
It is FEMINIST GIANT'S first anniversary!
I launched my free newsletter exactly a year ago. And I have written 44 essays since then. This is the most popular. #January6th
Essay: White Women Storm the Capitol
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I launched my free newsletter exactly a year ago. And I have written 44 essays since then. This is the most popular. #January6th
Essay: White Women Storm the Capitol
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Over the past year, I have written about football/soccer, desire and the revolutionary power of polyamory, perimenopause, the TV show We Are Lady Parts, the Olympics, and why profanity is politically important.
2nd most popular essay on FEMINIST GIANT
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2nd most popular essay on FEMINIST GIANT
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NEW! Launching today: audio recordings of my essays on FEMINIST GIANT.
Hear me read my essays, starting with one of my most popular: #WhyISayFuck
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Hear me read my essays, starting with one of my most popular: #WhyISayFuck
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I recorded the audio version of both my books and loved it!
I know that The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls audiobook is not yet available everywhere. Until then, hear me read my essays on FEMINIST GIANT☝🏽And here is the opening of my book
I know that The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls audiobook is not yet available everywhere. Until then, hear me read my essays on FEMINIST GIANT☝🏽And here is the opening of my book
I love that the NYT is covering the sweary cheerleader victory because when I was still a contributing opinion writer for the NYT, James Bennet, the editor of the opinion pages, insisted that I stop saying “fuck" on Twitter. So I launched #WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
He insisted I especially stop saying “flying fuck,” as in “I don’t give a flying fuck” on social media. Not in the columns that I wrote for the paper, but on Twitter. I was never an employee of the Times. He said the word “fuck” wasn’t conducive to conversation.
The next day, I launched #WhyISayFuck on Twitter, published an essay--in another publication--about why I say “fuck,” and wrote a proposal for a book that called on women to practise 7 “sins” I believe are necessary to destroy the patriarchy. #WhyISayFuck penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man.
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The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour.
The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
"Fuck school, fuck softball, fuck cheer, fuck everything," said a then 14yo cheerleader on Snapchat after she didn't make Varsity.
The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in the case of the school vs the sweary cheerleader h/t @rerutled
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The Supreme Court hears arguments this week in the case of the school vs the sweary cheerleader h/t @rerutled
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I'm a massive fan of profanity. I am intentionally sweary. And I write often about who can swear and when.
Patriarchy insists it controls everything, including our mouths. When our mouths threaten that control, patriarchy insists we shut them. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Patriarchy insists it controls everything, including our mouths. When our mouths threaten that control, patriarchy insists we shut them. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour.
The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
This has made my day. This is one of my favorite pictures of me and this misogynist shit is using it to show that “All feminists turn ugly once they cross 30s 40s. The bitterness start showing.” May I always be ugly to the patriarchy and its misogynist shits (📷 @rerutled)
“wow, this proves the theory that all hardcore feminists are hideous to look at.”
May I always be hideous to the patriarchy and its misogynist shits
May I always be hideous to the patriarchy and its misogynist shits
Here’s a picture of me and Salma Hayek together in London in 2013. She is of Lebanese descent and my tattoo is Arabic calligraphy
This is a 14 minute clip that explains what my book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is all about, including why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter, #MosqueMeToo, and #WhyISayFuck via @YouTube
My essay on #IBeatMyAssaulter and #MosqueMeToo
I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
#WhyISayFuck: It is exactly because of this classist, pear-clutching, civility-as-cudgel fuckery feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I am from the “If they go low, I will fucking come for them” school of thought. I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not acknowledge my full humanity. Profanity is politically important. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour. The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
I’m a massive fan of profanity. We must recognize that the ubiquitous ways patriarchy socializes women to shrink themselves - physically and intellectually - extend also into language, into what we can and cannot say. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… #WhyISayFuck
At the heart of that policing, standing guard over our language like a baton ready to strike, is civility. Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. (This Australian TV episode was banned from rebroadcast)
Patriarchy wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who not a cisgender heterosexual man. Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules.
Outside White House January 2020 🎥 @rerutled
Outside White House January 2020 🎥 @rerutled
This essay about James Bennett is a necessary reminder of the misogyny & boys club undergirding US media and how white men protect each other. Bennett - who left the NYT after publishing a fascist senator’s oped - has predictably landed on his feet. jenzerb.medium.com/i-left-my-care…
I was a contributing opinion writer at the NYT 2014-2018. Last time I I spoke to Bennett he told me to stop saying “fuck” on Twitter. So I started #WhyISayFuck. I explain here with background feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I understand - because they write to me in private - that many in the US media can’t name shitty misogynist bosses and editors. I work for myself and I started this newsletter because I don’t give a fuck and I am beholden to no one feministgiant.com
Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.
I say, “Fuck the patriarchy,” because I am a woman, a woman of colour, and of Muslim descent. And I’ll be fucking damned if I jump through your civility or decorum hoops any day #WhyISayFuck
Pair with this:
“I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.”
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“I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.”
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The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour. The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.
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My new essay: Why I Say "Fuck."
I'm a massive fan of profanity. I explain why here. Tell me why you say "Fuck" in replies and use #WhyISayFuck.feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I'm a massive fan of profanity. I explain why here. Tell me why you say "Fuck" in replies and use #WhyISayFuck.feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I believe that profanity is politically important.
I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write the way I speak, and use all the profanity I want to use. Sign up.
#WhyISayFuck feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…
I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write the way I speak, and use all the profanity I want to use. Sign up.
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#WhyISayFuck the 2 minute version
