Thread by @monaeltahawy

#AmyConeyBarrett is a mediocre judge who was elevated because she’s a white mother of school-aged children who will do white supremacist patriarchy’s bidding in a country that hates mothers and their school-aged children who are not white feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ju…

How hypocritical that in the middle of a pandemic, the administration that’s done so little for mothers of school-aged children, esp Black & women of colour, who are being pumelled by triple work loads, demands that we celebrate a privileged white mother of school-aged children.

How cruel - the ultimate adjective of the Trump era - that the administration that insists we celebrate that Barrett is a mother of school-aged children is the same admin that has ripped apart migrant mothers from their school-aged children in concentration camps at the border.

My new essay looks at why patriarchy promotes mediocre white women like #AmyConeyBarrett to #SCOTUS and Gina Haspel to head of the CIA.

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Motherhood is to #AmyConeyBarrett what self-effacement was to Gina Haspel: an attribute that allows patriarchy to safely elevate a woman to an unprecedented position with the understanding that she will not threaten patriarchy but instead do its bidding.

I am not here to be friends with the Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy and their Five-Star General or their Spy Chief. 

I am here to terrify the patriarchy. 

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