Thread by @monaeltahawy

In Nov, an episode of Australian show Q&A was banned from rebroadcast. Among reasons: I asked “how many rapists must we kill before men stop raping women?” Women are terrorized at home during #COVID19 lockdowns. Imaginary violence vs men shocks more than actual violence vs women

In my latest book #7NecessarySins, the chapter on the “sin” of violence frightens people. I’m told: “Violence begets violence!” What do centuries of male violence vs women beget?

Here are the opening pages of that chapter. My book came out in Sept. 2019

#COVID19

People are more upset at my questions about imaginary violence vs men than they are at the REAL and DAILY violence vs women, queer people, children. Remember this as we hear stories of women having to choose: a deadly virus outside, an abuser inside. #COVID19

I am ENRAGED when my book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls is portrayed as a book about “women’s anger.” IT IS NOT! Anger is one of the SEVEN sins. It’s the “baby” sin if you will. I write about much more than anger.

But the patriarchy and its compliant cowards in the US media refuse to engage with my work beyond anger, especially my insistence that we consider violence as a legitimate response to patriarchal violence.

#COVID19

It’s a reminder that the only form of “resistance” women are allowed to consider is anger - and even that is considered so beyond the beyond that entire books are written about it. Still - book after book is written about “women’s anger.”

FUCK THAT SHIT

#COVID19

It’s as if anger in and of itself is THE MOST dangerous thing a woman can express.

Patriarchy is the oldest form of occupation. Liberation movements throughout history have used violence vs colonizers & occupiers. Why can’t women?

#COVID19

I ask in the chapter on Violence: can women - whose participation in liberation movements is often erased when history is written - use violence to liberate themselves from their “comrades?” In other words: can women resist patriarchy?

#COVID19

I rarely use the word “terrorism.” It is loaded and politically biased. But I DO USE it to describe violence vs women.

Remember that before #COVID19, there was a global pandemic long ignored - violence vs women.

“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?"

Remember: a TV episode was BANNED from rebroadcast in Australia in 2019 because,among other reasons, I asked those Qs