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10 Nov, 5 tweets, 3 min read
I’m seeing several discussions about profanity and vulgarity. Great! My latest book The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls has a chapter on the political importance of profanity.

And I wrote this recently: Fuck is a Feminist Word feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
And this: understand how civility, decorum, manners, and the like are used to uphold authority—patriarchy, whiteness, other forms of privilege. We are urged to acquiesce as a form of maintaining that authority. feministgiant.substack.com/p/editorial-fe…
"If decent language has not been used to effect change...of what use is it? I would rather insult and change things, revise the balance of power, than keep quiet or be polite in ways that do not change anything," Feminist Scholar Stella Nyanzi. Read more 👉🏽lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…
So - “Shit. Fuck” on live TV is the reason that people are discussing profanity h/t @rerutled
I post this clip every day just about! One of the reasons this episode of #Australian show Q&A was banned: because I said “fuck” 10 times or so. Fuck civility.

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12 Nov
Instructive to see male journalists in the US defending a male journalist in the US after he was fired for masturbating during a Zoom work call. Makes you wonder:
1. How many do it
2. How casually they regard work sexual harassment
3. How reliably they report on sexual harassment Ryan Grim tweet “Aside from...“He was in his own home, an...
And “worker protections are shit” said in all seriousness about a privileged male journalist & TV commentator who is probably quite rich thank you during a pandemic when millions are unemployed and on the verge of eviction and not because they wank in front of their co-workers!
Also, Toobin - who is 60yo and should apparently know better, does not seem to know better
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12 Nov
This is happening in a European Union country: “Hungary's government proposed a constitutional amendment on Tuesday requiring children to be raised with a Christian interpretation of gender roles” reuters.com/article/us-hun… h/t @graygoogirl
The draft amendment declares that children must be guaranteed an "upbringing based on values stemming from #Hungary's ... Christian culture."

"The basis for family relations is marriage...The mother is a woman, the father is a man." #LGBTQ
In Hungary & Poland fascist patriarchal fuckery targets bodies of women - cis & trans - and queer people.

Recent protests in Poland carried rainbow pride flag in recognition of dovetailing of feminist & LGBTQ resistance to fascist fuckery of the State. feministgiant.substack.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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11 Nov
While Trump lost, and Biden won, know this: white supremacist patriarchy is the real winner in America. Even though Trump lost, we are still fucked. feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-femini…
Of course I want Trump gone. But I know much of what brought him will remain and that much of what brought him is this country and the white supremacist patriarchy that is foundational to it, and not only to the GOP.
White supremacist patriarchy is not defeated by embracing or reaching across the aisle to fascist enablers. When the GOP wins anything, no matter how narrowly, they act like “Fuck everyone WE OWN THIS!”
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11 Nov
Gunmen shot dead Hanan al-Barassi, a prominent female dissident, in broad daylight on a busy street in #Benghazi, in the latest killing of a critic of military strongman Khalifa Haftar and of the abuses in the areas controlled by his Libyan National Army google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…
Barassi ran a local association for the defence of women’s rights & spoke out against violence against women in videos she broadcast on social media. In footage posted to her FB page just before she was shot, criticised armed groups close to Haftar, saying she’d been “threatened” A woman wearing a black hea...
Barassi’s killing comes nearly a year and a half after the disappearance of another prominent women’s rights activist, Siham Sergiwa, who was abducted from her home in #Benghazi by armed men on 17 July and has not been heard from since. #Libya A woman seen from the chest...
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11 Nov
I wrote this in Sept and it applies today:

I moved to the U.S. in 2000. I’ve learned that many white Americans have a delusional amount of confidence in their government & its institutions feministgiant.substack.com/p/if-amy-coney…
They are childishly naive in believing that institutions will save them from state power, which they think will work for rather than ever hurt them. 

That stubborn belief in U.S. exceptionalism undergirds the refusal to see the fascism that #Trump brought.
Black, Indigenuous, and people of colour have no such delusions. They do not expect institutions to protect them because they are so often hurt by those institutions.
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11 Nov
Great read.

Esp this: “Even now, while Trump and the GOP endeavor to openly steal the election, the Times acts as if treating the president and his party like the pigs that they are would be some massive breach of celestial etiquette.” sfgate.com/politics/artic… h/t @QuadCityPat
I am genuinely concerned that the media which couldn’t call a racist a racist and a liar a liar and was too cowardly to call the election are the same media lacking the spine to call out Trump and GOP election stealing fuckery
US media are unable to report on US presidents and their fuckery in the way they do presidents elsewhere. And it has to do with the exceptionalism that so many white Americans thought would save them from Trump happening them.
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