Thread by @jackfrombkln

I just finished a stint in @Twitter jail for "hate speech" (I quoted Jay-Z's song "The Ballad of OJ & used the N word instead of some euphemism like ni99a).

Whoever is in charge of "hate speech" at @Twitter is more dedicated to silencing black folk than actual hate speech.

@Twitter In any case.

Recently I gave a brief, incomplete primer on white supremacy. Any time I discuss racism, I’m obligated to confront my own internal biases, and check my own internalized #misogyny.

@Twitter What follows is directed to any men reading this. Any women reading this: please feel free to add to, amend, or correct this diatribe. The LAST thing I want to do is mansplain misogyny to women.

First of all, all #patriarchy is sexism.

@Twitter This means you don't need to use the B word, be a “proud boy,” refer to yourself as an "incel," or hate women to be a misogynist.

Patriarchy can be active or passive; both flavors are sexist.

@Twitter Think: actual rapists vs the pervasiveness of rape culture. This is where lots of folks get tripped up.

Active patriarchy is supported by passive patriarchy; it couldn't exist without it.

@Twitter FAR too many men are aggressively sexist, but they still need the fertile soil of passive support in order to thrive.

Patriarchy is a lot less subtle than racism.

@Twitter It's not believing women can compete with men athletically when @simone_biles & @serenawilliams are both walking the planet.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It’s clinging to the belief that men are just physically stronger, in defiance of the existence of Mahailya Reeves, the 15 year old girl who can bench press almost 400 pounds.

Let's not even talk about childbirth.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It’s the fight women have endured in order to fight in the armed services because they are just “too delicate.”

Patriarchy is restricting a woman’s right to own property and generate wealth for thousands of years.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It’s the anachronistic practice of a woman (and any children a relationship might bear) taking the last name of a man, as if she (and her kids) are property and not people.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is women inventing brewing and distilling, and men, drunk on ale and spirits, calling them witches and burning them at the stake, for possessing knowledge they didn’t understand.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is the insane beauty standard women are held to, where their worth as humans is determined by male gaze, and the immensity of industry dedicated to making and keeping women insecure about their physical appearance.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams A woman’s value is intrinsic and not in any way tied to her ability to attract (or keep) a sexual or romantic partner.

Patriarchy is how we teach girls, who are discouraged from pursuing science, technology, engineering, & math.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It's the condescension men can’t hide when they find out their doctor/lawyer/engineer is a woman.

Patriarchy is needing the Bechdel test in any form of entertainment, be it movies, TV, music or literature, as if the only value women have is in relation to a man.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It’s a fact that the majority of elementary school teachers are women, while they are a minority of college professors and deans, despite the fact that Fatima bint Muhammad, an Arabic woman, established the first ever institute of higher learning in 859 C.E.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is organized religion being run mostly by men, while women make up the majority of practitioners.

Patriarchy is referring to a male as female (or feminine) and having that be pejorative.

Patriarchy is the phrase "consensual sex." Non-consensual sex, is rape.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is refusing to acknowledge the pay gap, or for that matter, the orgasm gap.

The idea that women are deserving of less money or orgasms than men is moronic; even worse is the idea that a woman’s money or sex life only has value in relation to a man’s needs.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams If you aren’t personally doing what you can to end the pay/orgasm gap, you’re passively supporting patriarchy.

Patriarchy is men occupying most of the space as chefs and restaurant owners, when women have been in charge of food gathering and preparation for thousands of years.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It’s profiting from the labor (physical and emotional) of women without offering equal remuneration.

Patriarchy is women paying higher insurance rates than men, despite the inarguable fact that men are more prone to dumb stunts and life-endangering stupidity.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams It's the expectation of their ability to use sex as a panacea any time a man threatens their autonomy, then demonizing them for enjoying sex.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is having most of your world leaders be men despite the fact that women outnumber men, and are arguably better at governing than men are.

Don’t believe this? Do some research on Rwanda.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams They have the most aggressive economic growth in the world at the moment, a direct result of the fact that 68% of their government is women.

All it took to put women in charge in Rwanda was a genocide.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams I attribute women’s superior governing skills to their developing communal thought over thousands of years as a survival technique.

In a general sense, if you put a man in charge, he creates policy that will benefit him (or those like him) and protects his power.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Put women in charge, and they create policies that benefit everyone and protects people.

If you are a part of everyone, you will benefit from women running things.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams Patriarchy is asking if @ewarren or @KamalaHarris are "electable" when they hold elected office, in full and willful ignorance of the orange mudslide currently occupying the oval office.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris Patriarchy is the media telling you what is and is not sexist, and approving or disapproving the manner of protest and resistance.

It is men deciding policy on women’s reproductive rights when self-same men have (next to) no knowledge of the female reproductive system.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris Patriarchy is all the books you read and all the movies you watch and all the music you listen to being made by male creators.

It’s also the gatekeepers of all media being male.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris Patriarchy is crippling the future of your country because girl babies are discarded or mutilated at birth, or sold, because they don’t hold the same value as males, and then having ten adult men for every woman, and wondering why your population growth is stymied.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris It's also only attributing a woman's value in relation to her ability to produce children.

Patriarchy is a girl child being shot in the face because she wanted to learn.

Seriously, we don’t deserve @Malala.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris @Malala Patriarchy is assuming all the great inventions were created by men, when in fact what men did was write history & deliberately exclude women.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris @Malala Patriarchy is men being medically aware the internal clitoris is as big as an erect penis, then burying this knowledge for thousands of years.

Patriarchy is walking down the street and not having to worry if you’re going to be raped by a stranger.

Or a “friend.”

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris @Malala It’s taking self defense courses because you enjoy hitting things, and not because you fear for your life if you’re alone and coming home late.

Patriarchy is assuming women take self defense classes for self-protection, and not because they enjoy hitting things.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris @Malala Patriarchy is baked into EVERYTHING. It's not all hate but it's okay with cultural, political, and financial dominance. It's a pathogen: you may not even be aware you have it, because you don't show symptoms.

The only antibody for #patriarchy is active anti-sexism.

@Twitter @Simone_Biles @serenawilliams @ewarren @KamalaHarris @Malala Don’t even get me started on misogynoir.