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Jan 30 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
I have supported Manchester United since 1976, when I was nine years old The news coming out about #masongreenwood is a reminder--another--that football is one of the many outlets that patriarchy offers to cisgender men as an excuse to treat us like shit. feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f…
On the pitch, off the pitch, from managers to players to the men who support them: patriarchy fuels a dangerous cocktail of toxic masculinity in football as well as many other men’s sports. #MasonGreenwoodOUT
And the abusive behaviour of superstars like #Mason_Greenwood must be directly connected to the behaviour of abusers in the stands and in the pubs who watch them. The through line is patriarchy.
Let’s be clear though: it is not football that makes cisgender men abuse women and children.

Patriarchy does feministgiant.com/p/essay-when-f… #masongreenwood
And football authorities--corrupt, male dominated, enraptured by sponsorship deals with alcohol companies--have been woefully awful at confronting that toxicity. #MasonGreenwood #MUFC
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Manchester police said they had arrested a man on suspicion of rape and assault on Sunday after Manchester United suspended England forward Mason Greenwood following allegations on social media. h/t @rerutled #MUFC #MasonGreenwoodOUT
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The good news: I'm writing.
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Jan 28
The Biden administration is set to deny $130 million of military aid to #Egypt over human rights concerns. The same administration earlier this week approved arms sales to Egypt for a combined value of more than $2.5 billion reuters.com/world/biden-ad…
This is exactly why so many of us have said over and over that U.S, foreign policy is fucked up, regardless of whether a Democrat or a Republican is in the White House, and why so many of us said as abhorrent as Trump was, he was not an aberration.
- Trump called Sisi “my favourite dictator.”
- Biden, 10 yrs ago during #Jan25 Revolution when he was Obama’s VP wouldn’t call Mubarak, our dictator of 30yrs, a dictator.
- 5 US presidents propped up Mubarak

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Jan 26
A 37yo woman has died in #Poland after being denied an abortion after one of her twin fetuses died. Doctors waited until the vital functions of the other twin flatlined on their own a week later, Agnieszka T's family said. h/t @mokomokai #AniJednejWięcej macaubusiness.com/rights-groups-… On a black background in white letter written the Polish wor
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Agnieszka T died on Tuesday. Thursday marks a year since #Poland banned access to abortion in almost all circumstances, which @hrw & rights groups say has had a devastating impact on the lives of women and all those in need of abortion care hrw.org/news/2022/01/2… #AniJednaWiecej
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Jan 25
None of the revolutions that began when a man set himself on fire in Tunisia in December 2010 have been about gender equality. But if a man began the revolutions in the Middle East and North Africa, it will be women who will complete them. feministgiant.com/p/jan25-ten-ye… #Jan25 #Egypt
Our autocrat is a coward who has built more prisons than hospitals or schools since the revolution because he is scared of us and of our insistence that we count.
#Jan25 #Egypt
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