Thread by @monaeltahawy

#WhyISayFuck: It is exactly because of this classist, pear-clutching, civility-as-cudgel fuckery feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…

I am from the “If they go low, I will fucking come for them” school of thought. I refuse to be polite or civil with anyone who does not acknowledge my full humanity. Profanity is politically important. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…

The obsession with civility in the United States is bipartisan and white, and often directed at women, especially Black women and women of colour. The less power a woman has, the less freedom she is given to curse.

The more a woman is caught in the intersections of oppressions--race, class, gender, other forms of oppression--the more her language is policed, fenced, and suffocated. google.com/amp/s/www.vice…

Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy. In front of the 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 polite about white supremacy, fuckers.

I swear because I insist that my language be as free as I want to be. I say fuck because I will own that word and use it when I want.

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My name is Mona Eltahawy and this is my declaration of faith: Fuck the patriarchy. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…

An excerpt from the chapter on Profanity from my book The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls lithub.com/mona-eltahawy-…

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