Thread by @monaeltahawy

White women: footsoldiers of the patriarchy.
Brian Kemp: 76%
Ted Cruz: 59%
Ron DeSantis: 51%

Stacey Abrams has not conceded in the race against Brian Kemp but consider this #FootsoldiersOfThePatriarchy

https://twitter.com/bluestein/status/1059907052099854336?s=21

In only one of those graphs, it’s a man vs a woman.

In that race, it is a (white) man (Brian Kemp) competing versus a (Black) woman (Stacey Abrams).

In that race, white women overwhelmingly chose the man over the woman candidate. (76%)

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So all that stuff about Year of the Woman?

It is NOT the year of the white woman, because white women in their majority continue to vote for white patriarchy.
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A good time to repost this
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https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1059107202823274496?s=21

Retire:
- white women who vote GOP “vote against their own interests.”
Their interest is to ally with white supremacist patriarchy. It benefits them.

-“the bless-your-heart strong white southern women”
They think that allying with patriarchy will protect them. It won’t.

“GOP women will mainly stand firm in their party affiliation.They are loyal to the party,even if political moderates & those who identify as progressive Left have concluded that GOP doesn’t respect women’s voices and bodies” theconversation.com/republican-wom…
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White Republican women:
“Thus, it is within married women’s interests to support policies and politicians who protect their husbands and improve their status.”
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“The notion of benevolent patriarchy allows conservative women to feel that if they submit to their husband’s wills, they can benefit through their husband’s protection and economic care.”
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These Republican white women:
- Who indoctrinated them?
- Who taught them to submit to men?
- Why are they so brainwashed?
- Should I save them?
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I know that Republican white women often lament the plight of “Muslim women” and buy into the“you’re lucky you’re a woman in America and not over there.” Those same white women don’t see their own indoctrination: God, guns, white men.
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Because they’re white, the indoctrination of those women is not seen as indoctrination. It’s considered “normal,” the default, “how things are.” While their equivalents in Muslim/other backgrounds are seen as “abnormal” “brainwashed” & pathologized.

It’s always easier for - always white - women to wonder how to help women “over there” than to ask how to fight for women “over here.”The fight is over here, always: more white women than white men voted for Kemp in the race against Abrams in Georgia.
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White patriarchs love to play “You should be grateful you live in America. It’s shit over there for women” & love to point to (usually) Muslim countries. e.g. Saudi Arabia which I regularly skewer for misogyny. BUT: it’s shit “over here” too, Mr. Man.
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I’ve written lots about patriarchy & misogyny in my cultural & faith background & I’ve never asked anyone to “save us.” No one saves you. You save yourself.When - always a white - woman at my events asks me “what can I do to help women in the Middle East”I say”Nothing.Fight here”

It was esp rich when a white woman in #Texas asked me “How can I help women in Egypt?” Ha!Texas where white women voted against Wendy Davis,where last night a majority of white women voters chose a racist misogynist.I told her to help women in Texas.
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I’ve been asked countless times by mostly white people “Why do Muslim women submit to so much misogyny?” I’m now asking why do Republican white women submit to so much misogyny?
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And TwitterLand, lookout for my book explaining white women to themselves, called #NotAllWhiteWomen: Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy.

Instant experts on Islam & Mideast, after a week in the region, write books explaining us to ourselves. I’ve more than earned it. Coming soon!