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Mona Eltahawy @monaeltahawy
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I will write a thread about this soon but for now I’m too enraged to say more: every white American woman watching the war vs Christine Blasey Ford must understand that all the white & blonde privilege you have - and I don’t care how you vote - will not save you from patriarchy.
You cannot be a more “perfect victim” than Christine Blasey Ford and still they will do all they can to destroy her. Imagine if she was Black. Or poor. Or disabled. Or so many other things.
And don’t send me #NotAllWhiteWomen. Where the fuck have you all been?Trump made you angry?Where the fuck were you before?You’re angry now?White women think their anger is a revolution when in fact they’re just catching up with the revolution of rage the rest of us began ages ago
e.g. A white woman asked our panel at Brooklyn Book Festival this weekend “How can I help ensure my daughter doesn’t lose Roe vs Woe” & I was going to explode. I reminded her many many women of colour & poor women across the US had already lost repro rights.Where have you been?!
And I’ve gone and written a thread anyway. Fuck the patriarchy and fight your apathy. Where have you been?
American women who still support the nomination of Kavanaugh:
- 70% of Republican women
- 5% of Democratic women
- 17% of independent women
google.com/amp/s/www.nbcn…
That 70% of Republican women is white women. Just like 53% of white women voters voted for Trump and 62% of white women voters voted for Roy Moore. White women: when are you going to stop being the footsoldiers of patriarchy? What will it take? White supremacy too good for you?
When will white women stop being footsoldiers of patriarchy? White supremacy is a potent drug. It does not save you from patriarchy. It is white male supremacy.
And here’s the thing: NYT discovered gender after Trump, WaPo discovered gender after #MeToo, & most “gender columnists/reporters/whatever” are white women. It’s like white women are the default & white women are the ones uniquely equipped to report on a problem they excel at!
It is 2018: a man accused by at least 20 women of sexual assault is president of the USA thanks to 52% of white women voters & a man accused of sexual assault is supported by ~70% of GOP(white)women.That is a national crisis. Footsoldiers of the patriarchy who are harming us all
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