Thread by @monaeltahawy

In #Egypt, women are criminalized, slut-shamed & silenced when they demand justice for being sexually assaulted and their social media pics are used against them. Meanwhile, Egyptian police cadets on display for Sisi feministgiant.substack.com/p/essay-macho-…

And #Egyptian male celebrities are celebrated for social media posts like these while women are criminalized and slut shamed for their pictures - fully clothed - on social media

The preening hypermasculinity comes at a time in #Egypt when unprecedented number of women are exposing sexual assault. Sisi’s regime is trying to terrorize women into silence, whether via the arrests witnesses in support of a gang rape victim or imprisonment of the TikTok women.

Patriarchy has a call and response. The #Egyptian regime leads by example by reserving its moral crusades for queer people and women, especially the daughters of the working class. And lawyers use the same moral crusade script feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…

The lawyer hounding this woman knows that script well and is using it against her, see thread below

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1338895574804951042?s=20

When misogyny comes from the State, it echoes readily on the Street & Home.

The Trifecta of Misogyny.

So when the regime imprisons female Tik Tok users on charges of "violating family values," a lawyer will readily use that vs a woman exposing his clients' for sexual assault.

When the State sexually assaults women as it did when the military subjected female activists to “virginity tests” in March 2011, less than a month after the #Jan25 2011 revolution ousted Mubarak, it gives a greenlight to the Street that you can assault women with impunity.

And it gives the Home a greenlight that there is nothing wrong with subjecting your daughter to “virginity tests” as some Egyptian families do.

State, Street, Home: a Trifecta of Misogyny that echo each other’s fuckery.

And Trump calls Egyptian dictator Sisi - who was head of military intelligence when the military subjected female activists to “virginity tests” - “my favourite dictator.”

More than 20 women have said Trump sexually assaulted them. Patriarchal fuckery is an international racket.

I wrote this connecting the patriarchy of Sisi and Trump on the day of Trump’s Inauguration in January 2017 google.com/amp/s/amp.theg…

Patriarchal fuckery is a global racket. An organized racket. It must be destroyed feministgiant.com/p/essay-macho-…