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3 Mar, 7 tweets, 3 min read
#Australia: if your defence minister is the only one forced out after your attorney general & a male minister were accused of rape/sexual assault, then it will give more impetus to why I call women like Linda Reynolds Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy h/t @webbysweird
Here are some Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy on this side of the world that I've written about: feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
And of course: Amy Coney Barrett feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju…
I do not subscribe to the blanket “We need more women in politics” because under that blanket crawl footsoldiers of the white supremacist patriarchy like Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert and Linda Reynolds feministgiant.com/p/essay-aoc-th…
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Definition of foot soldier
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: INFANTRYMAN
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: a person likened to an infantryman especially in doing active and usually unglamorous work in support of an organization or movement Text: Definition of foot soldier 1 : INFANTRYMAN 2 : a perso
Footsoldiers are sent into the frontlines of war to do the grunt work: the least appreciated, the most dispensable, the first to be hurt.

Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy are all of that.

FEMINIST GIANT says fuck you to the patriarchy and its footsoldiers feministgiant.com/p/coming-soon?…

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4 Mar
There is a chapter on Power in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls in which I expand more on Footsoldiers of the Patriarchy. This essay from 2019 captures many of my points nytimes.com/2019/05/28/opi…
Feminism does not promise to support a woman simply because she is a woman. Is that woman a fellow feminist fighting to destroy patriarchy or is she a Footsoldier of the Patriarchy? feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ju…
To demand I support a woman simply because she is a woman, with no regard to whether she upholds/works to destroy patriarchy, is to reduce feminism to a Sorority of Pinky Swears - a hollow & toothless mockery of goals of feminism, benefiting only those who benefit from patriarchy
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3 Mar
Fuck off. And I am starting something. Fuck right off. I told Ruby that on Instagram when she tried to start something and she blocked me because she knows this is shit. So telling your too to fuck off
If anyone’s wondering what I’m responding to, here’s the deleted tweet
Ruby Hamad tried this shit with me on IG last month, when she said I should amplify the voices of women of colour and accused me of “drowning them out” and “appropriating” their work. And then she blocked me. I have the screenshots. And I’m posting them because this was public.
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3 Mar
- Having “thick skin” does not mean tolerating sexual assault.
- “Good government” does not require the freedom to sexually assault aides
- Fuck Democrats and fuck Republicans and anyone who defends sexual assault
Fuck these fuckers:

- Governor of NY: accused of sexual assault
- Attorney General of Australia: accused of rape
- Supreme Court justice in the USA: accused of sexual assault
- Interior Minister of France: accused of sexual assault
- VP of Zimbabwe: accused of sexual misconduct
“The legal system is designed to protect men from the superior power of the state but not to protect women or children from the superior power of men,” U.S. feminist psychiatrist Judith Herman, Trauma and Recovery, The Aftermath of Violence-From Domestic Abuse to Political Terror
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2 Mar
After I explained to a club manager why I’d beaten up a man who sexually assaulted me, the manager looked at my Beloved and asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”

I almost beat him up too. feministgiant.com/p/i-beat-my-as…
I don’t want to be protected. I just want patriarchy to stop protecting and enabling men.

I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.

How long must we wait until men stop beating and murdering us, even under lockdown?

From April 🎥 @rerutled
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2 Mar
Thank you @NewBlackMan for your great talk on ‘Quarantine Soul,’ and for the music you included by Ego Ella May, Dinner Party, Tobe Nwigwe, among others for @nyuniversity Institute of African-American Affairs at NYU Screen grab of Mark Anthony...Image
I especially love this one by Ego Ella May

Girls Don't Always Sing About Boys
And this by Dinner Party: Freeze Tag
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2 Mar
Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert are part of a red wave that made history in the November elections. They are among the record-breaking 17 new female GOP lawmakers who were elected to Congress in November. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…
"In 2020, all 15 of the seats Republicans flipped were won by a woman, a minority or a veteran," Conston writes. "Continuing to recruit similar candidates is a foundational building block to the majority in 2022." h/t @AlterEg14914630 axios.com/house-republic…
All but one of the new GOP female lawmakers are white. Many GOP women who flipped blue seats to red are not moderates nor are they interested in “unity” unless it is a unity w/fascism that Trump has unleashed w/their support
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