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1 Nov, 10 tweets, 5 min read
As with #Egypt, this homoerotic bare and barrel-chested display in Algeria is happening in a homophobic country where same-sex relations are punishable by 2yrs in jail and a court recently convicted 44 on homosexuality charges
If fascism is theatre, as Jean Genet observed, whose bodies are centre stage? I explain in my essay on the preening hyper masculinity of fascist patriarchy, which prefers its men bare and barrel-chested like Algeria ☝🏽and #Egypt 👇🏽
Remember this when you hear Pride Parade jokes about those bare and barrel-chested Algerian men on display for the ruler:

Algeria: Mass Convictions for Homosexuality hrw.org/news/2020/10/1…
Fascism is laced with homoeroticism and hypocrisy as I explained in Macho Man feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
Fascist patriarchy loves hypermasculine displays & reserves its “moral” crusades for women & queer people. Putin’s Russia, where Church & State together decriminalized domestic violence & which bans distribution of "propaganda" that promotes "nontraditional sexual relationships” Putin shirtless and holding a fishing rod while standing in
Read my essay and sign up for FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter for more feminist analysis of global patriarchal fuckery feministgiant.substack.com/p/coming-soon?…
Fascist patriarchy has determined which type of male body is conventionally attractive and powerful and therefore suitable to display. And ironically for Trump, his is not it. So he imagines it A Trump tweet that shows his fave photoshopped onto the body
Absent his inability to display the “physical perfection,” Trump instead displays not just toxic but uber and dangerous masculinity.

Whether feminine or femme, disabled or fat, fascist patriarchy has no room on its stage for you. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…
Trump is a fascist misogynist and homophobic white supremacist who calls Egypt’s Sisi “my favourite dictator” and is BFFs with Putin.

If he could, he would be dancing topless to the Village People
And thank you @aysshie for this reminder of the “ideal” male body that fascism promotes A photograph of rows of men wearing only white shirts and ho

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2 Nov
Nanaia Mahuta has been appointed New Zealand’s first Indigenous female foreign minister.
cnn.com/2020/11/02/asi… h/t @rerutled
Nanaia Mahuta four years ago also became the country's first female member of parliament to wear a moko kauae, a traditional tattoo on her chin. The country's previous foreign minister, Winston Peters, is also Māori. #NewZealand
The incoming parliament looks set to be one of the most diverse in the world:
- Almost half of the lawmakers will be women -- significantly higher than global average of 25%.
- Around 10% of incoming parliament are openly #LGBTQ. New deputy Prime Minister Grant Robertson is gay.
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White American men saying out loud that they force their wives to vote the way they want them to. The one on the right has 10k followers. A tweet: A friendly reminde...Tweet: “So, Michael, who ar...
One hundred years after white American women got the right to vote thanks to the 19th amendment, there are still some white American men boasting that they force their wives to vote the way they want them to?
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FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter is TWO MONTHS old today! Thank you all who have signed up.

The newsletters is free because I want it to be accessible to all, esp now with funds limited for so many. If you can pay, it helps keep it free. Sign up!
Four of my essays for FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter are making the rounds this morning:

Macho Man on the homoeroticism of fascism
#AmyConeyBarrett: the Five-Star General of Patriarchy
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1 Nov
Why is core message of protests in #Poland vs near-total abortion ban “fuck off” to priests & far-right govt? Why are priests, far-right govt & groups the trinity of opposition to largest protests in #Poland since fall of Communism in 1989? #StrajkKobiet
When the fascist fucks in your country use a pandemic to tighten their grip on your body with a near total ban on abortion, the path to freedom must be paved with profanity. Politeness is capitulation. Fuck is a feminist word feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe… #StrajkKobiet
Daily protests organized by Women’s Strike, chant “fuck off,” hold massive banners telling right-wing populist Law & Justice (PiS) govt to “Get the fuck out” & “PiS off,” & carry rainbow pride flag in recognition of dovetailing of feminist & LGBTQ resistance to fascist fuckery. A sig held by a protestor that says Fuck offWomen's rights activists with posters of the Women's Strike
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1 Nov
“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion, and you follow traditional family structure.”

Let’s be clear: Lindsey Graham & GOP want cis white women to have more white babies
Graham is the head of the Senate Judiciary Committee & wants white women to be like #AmyConeyBarrett. Another senator on the committee wanted to know - during Barrett’s confirmation hearing - who did the laundry in her house. Babies and laundry
Wealthy, white, cis(het), able-bodied Christian men completed conservative domination of #SCOTUS w/ confirmation of an obedient white, cishet, Christian extremist mother.

White supremacist patriarchy raises its girls well. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ju…
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“I want every young woman to know there’s a place for you in America if you are pro-life, if you embrace your religion, and you follow traditional family structure.” Let’s be clear: Graham & GOP want white women to have more white babies lgbtqnation.com/2020/10/lindse… h/t @graygoogirl
Lindsey Graham said the above after he described what he likes about #AmyConeyBarrett: She is Patriarchy’s Five-Star General as I explain here feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-the-ju…
What better way to fuck over everyone who’s not a wealthy, white, cishet, able-bodied Christian man than by completing conservative domination of SCOTUS w/ confirmation of an obedient white, cishet, Christian extremist mother? 
White supremacist patriarchy raises its girls well.
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