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13 Feb, 11 tweets, 5 min read
Three years ago this week, I beat up a man who groped me in a club. It was fucking glorious. Celebrate that anniversary with me!
feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as… #IBeatMyAssaulter
I’ve lost count of the # times I’ve been sexually assaulted and I know that my reactions have spanned a spectrum, all of them valid. That night it was: Are you fucking kidding me? And my body went into autodrive; it knew exactly what to do.
Tell me your #IBeatMyAssaulter stories
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I know that we can’t always fight back. My priority is to survive. I never want what I have shared here to make anyone feel guilty for not beating up her assaulter.

I also know that we are not socialized to fight back. We are not taught to fight back. #IBeatMyAssaulter
Men are not socialized to expect us to fight back. I think of that when I hear of the spike in intimate partner terrorism during the pandemic. I wonder why those men never fear that those women could poison their food or simply kill them in their sleep for being abusive fucks.
I am not asking that question to put the burden of fighting back on women. Many do, and they are punished more severely for fighting back than are the men who beat/assault them. Prisons around the world are full of women who fight back & streets are full of men who assaulted them
What fucking world is this:
- where men still beat and kill us even during a pandemic
- how long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under #COVID19 lockdown?

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Touch me without my consent and I will break your fucking hand.

Video from February 2019.: The story behind why I launched #MosqueMeToo and #WhyIBeatMyAssaulter:

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I explain more in my new essay: Read, retweet and subscribe!

I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious!

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14 Feb
Three years ago today, I was icing my knuckles because I’d beaten the fuck out of a man who had groped me in a club a couple of nights before. I wrote about it in my new essay feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as… 📷 @rerutled #IBeatMyAssaulter Mona’s hand in a bowl of ic...
After I explained to a club manager what had happened, he ooked at my Beloved and asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?” I almost beat him up too.

“First of all, he’s not my husband. Also, this is my body, I take care of it.” feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
Patriarchy enables and protects men who sexually assault women, and it demands that only other men “protect” us.

As long as we obey and behave in ways it approves of, of course. Protection is conditional.Because if we disobey, ha! I don't want to be protected. I want to be free
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13 Feb
cw: sexual violence
One day when I was 4yo, a man stopped his car on the street under my family’s balcony, pulled his penis out & beckoned for me to come down.He did the same to my friend who'd been talking to me from her family’s balcony across the street feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I was enraged at that man. How dare he ruin our reverie.

I waved my slipper at him to frighten him away. I absolutely believed in my rage, convinced that it could frighten away a grown man who had decided to stop his car and wave his penis at 2 little girls.
I honour that angry 4yo girl. I honour her belief that she deserved to be free of molestation & free of interruption. She was born w/ a pilot light of anger,tenacious & sure of its right to flare whenever treated unjustly.I believe all girls are born w/that pilot light of anger
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13 Feb
What an indictment of the craven shits aka the Republicans.

#impeachment
After all his fascist fuckery, after his incitement to violence and insurrection, after all of that, the Senate still acquitted Trump.

It is an indictment of the way the U.S. puts on trial fascism. It has acquitted fascism. They have given it a green light. Fuck fascism.
The very people who could've been killed by the insurrectionists incited by Trump acquitted
Trump.

Spineless, cowardly, craven shits. Fuck fascism and its enablers and its accomplices. #impeachment
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13 Feb
I launched #IBeatMyAssaulter after I tracked down the man who groped me in a club, shoved him, sat on him and I punched, and I punched, and I punched his face. And I spent the weekend icing my knuckles and it was well worth it! 📷 @rerutled Mona's hand in a bowl of ice
Just days before, I had launched another viral hashtag: #MosqueMeToo. I explain 🎥 @rerutled
Read the whole thing in my mew essay: I Beat My Assaulter, And It Was Fucking Glorious

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13 Feb
"I am writing to you because I want you to know that “getting along” and “uniting” and “being civil” w/white supremacist patriarchy makes you complicit in its crimes. We must never “get along” w/fascists. We must never “unite” w/white supremacists..."
" feministgiant.com/p/letter-dear-…
"I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance of telling a man to shut the fuck up.

I am writing to you because I want you to know the importance and power of being dangerous when you ask the right questions; questions that challenge, not comfort oppressors."
"I am writing to urge you to stop wanting to be liked, and demand instead to be free.

Polite and well-behaved girls do not terrify the patriarchy. We must terrify patriarchy." feministgiant.com/p/letter-dear-…
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12 Feb
He should be fucking fired already.
"But instead of calling the male reporter who initially contacted him, Ducklo tried to intimidate Palmeri by phone in an effort to kill the story. “I will destroy you,” Ducklo told her, according to the sources, adding that he would ruin her reputation if she published it."
"Ducklo made derogatory and misogynistic comments, accusing Palmeri of only reporting on his relationship...because she was “jealous” that an unidentified man in the past had “wanted to fuck” (his female partner) McCammond “and not you.”
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