Thread by @monaeltahawy

I’m a massive fan of profanity. We must recognize that the ubiquitous ways patriarchy socializes women to shrink themselves - physically and intellectually - extend also into language, into what we can and cannot say. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… #WhyISayFuck

At the heart of that policing, standing guard over our language like a baton ready to strike, is civility. Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. (This Australian TV episode was banned from rebroadcast)

Patriarchy wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who not a cisgender heterosexual man. Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules.

Outside White House January 2020 🎥 @rerutled

There is nothing polite about fascism. There is nothing civil about grabbing pussies. There is nothing polite about putting children in cages. There is nothing civil about leaving >400K people to die of a pandemic. There is nothing civil about white supremacy, fuckers.

I started FEMINIST GIANT so that I can write as freely as I speak - to say “fuck” and be profane and call fascists “fascist fucks.”

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