Thread by @monaeltahawy

Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

If Lauren Boebert was a Muslim and tried to take her Glock into the Capitol, she would be expelled and put on trial as a terrorist feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

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Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors of the Capitol, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves.

Women who joined ISIS were never afforded such an audacious innocence.

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But those comparisons must be made. As I read that the relatives of female insurrectionists argued with them not to go, or that QAnon had created a wedge within families, it reminds me of the backstories of armed Islamists I reported when I was a Reuters correspondent in Cairo.

When U.S. media have taken deep dives into QAnon, it is stunning how much fuckery these women get away with. And that is why it's important to focus on role of white women. This is how Elle magazine described Marjorie Taylor Greene in Oct. 2020

Even as calls for her expulsion from Congress grow, Axios sees fit to create a false equivalence. On January 28, the publication included her among “The Mischief Makers”, who Axios says are “troublemakers within their parties and political thorns for their leadership.”

MTG is a reminder that while the U.S. has obsessively focused its “War on Terror” on brown Muslim men both outside and inside its borders, this white, blonde, Christian woman inside its Capitol is the face of terror at home. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

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White supremacist violence is rarely taken seriously; its female adherents,consistent w/presumption of white women’s innocence, less so.That's why white women's role must be highlighted-not to give men free pass, but bec white women so easily get free pass feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…