Michaels aren’t the only language fascists. One of the reasons this episode of Australian TV show Q&A was banned after it aired is because I said “Fuck” 10 times (they counted) and a govt media watchdog analyses each and every time
“Panellist Mona Eltahawy clearly communicated that her use of coarse language was intended to be provocative & that she used it to highlight the function of polite discourse in suppressing marginalised female voices within a male patriarchy.”
https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1306772645472600064
Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man. feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
Profanity is so important to me - politically and personally important - I wrote a whole chapter on it in The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls. My next book should just be called Fuck Off, Kitten penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t…
And to see why Fuck & other profanities are important to women in the revolution, read how Polish feminists used the word during their revolution vs their right wing govt & priests and how Ugandan feminist @DrStellaNyanzi is a profane revolutionary feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
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