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20 Oct, 6 tweets, 3 min read
My latest essay: Macho Man feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
What do these #Spanish soldiers in their button-bustingly tight uniforms have to do with Trump and Putin? feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-… Soldiers from La Legión, an elite infantry regiment of the
Why does Donald Trump shuffle his way through Macho Man and YMCA to the cult-like adulation of his supporters? Why isn’t he dancing shirtless to Village People anthems at his rallies? Why is he such a terrible dancer? feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…

If fascism is theatre, as French filmmaker Jean Genet observed, then we must ask who fascism elevates to centre stage and who is deemed unworthy of being seen. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
“Painters and sculptors under the Nazis often depicted the nude, but they were forbidden to show any bodily imperfections...” Susan Sontag on the Nazi aesthetic of physical perfection. As I said, fat is a fascist issue. In her 1975 essay Fascin
Read the whole essay and sign up for FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter for more of my essays disrupting global patriarchal fuckery feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…

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22 Oct
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 and the power of patriarchy. Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. That’s why I say Fuck Trump feministgiant.substack.com/p/editorial-fe…
I refuse to be polite or to be quiet or to be civil. Fuck that. In the era of the white supremacist patriarch aka Trump, profanity is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.
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22 Oct
As senate Democrats plan to boycott today’s scheduled vote on Amy Coney Barrett's nomination to the Supreme Court, reposting my thread and essay: If Amy Coney Barrett Was a Muslim trib.al/WYhFSfS
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22 Oct
You know the video of those shirtless #Egyptian police cadets on floats that people joked looked like Pride parade? Those bare and barrel-chested police cadets graduated into a police force paid to entrap, arrest and torture #LGBTQ people.
Also, these police cadets are on display in #Egypt where the more men undress the more they are celebrated for virility, strength and hypermasculinity, whereas women are arrested for dancing on TikTok, fully clothed 👇🏽
There is nothing funny about a country where men parade shirtless for the fascist dictator whose regime criminalizes and slut-shames women whether in “revealing” clothes or hijab, including fully-clothed women for selfies and videos on TikTok feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-… #Egypt
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22 Oct
My Letter to the 8th Grader was very popular. I’m working on a follow up that incorporates The Octopus and P.I.E. feministgiant.substack.com/p/letter-dear-…
The Octopus:

What is patriarchy?

I want you to imagine an octopus.

My 90-second definition of patriarchy
Provoke

Instigate

Exhale

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21 Oct
If fascism is theatre, as Jean Genet observed, whose bodies are centre stage? My new essay is on the preening hyper masculinity of fascist patriarchy, which prefers its men bare and barrel-chested like the #Egyptian police cadets 👇🏽feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
Trump would be shirtless at rallies dancing to Macho Man if it weren’t for the fact that fascist patriarchy has determined which type of male body is conventionally attractive, powerful &suitable to display. Ironically for Trump, his is not it. Remember this? h/t @Heresy_Corner Trump’s head photoshopped o...
Whether Mussolini or the Nazi obsession with the “perfect body,” fascist patriarchy is a cruel mistress.

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19 Oct
Jeffrey Toobin “accidentally” exposed his penis on a Zoom call.

Chris Evans “accidentally” posted a dick pic on social media.

Are men in the USA ok?
New Yorker Suspends Jeffrey Toobin for Zoom Dick Incident vice.com/en/article/epd… #ZoomDick
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