Thread by @monaeltahawy

After antics at #SOTU, I remind you the predictably-craven GOP leadership initially backed Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert’s male GOP opponents because party leaders thought the two women were extremists who did not stand a chance in primaries. feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

MTG was dangerous & vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, the GOP shrugged & carried on being craven shits they are,happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

MTG & Boebert, like Trump, are not aberrations. They are fruition of GOP’s reliance on race, gender, and religion to keep white people in several parts of the U.S. - including the South - resolutely Republican and increasingly right wing. cbsnews.com/news/marjorie-…

"While listing out allies in Congress during his remarks at CPAC on Saturday, former President Donald Trump also introduced Greene.

"A person who is very shy, does not like speaking her mind. But she does it anyway, Marjorie Taylor Greene," he said, to cheers in the crowd."

If Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert

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The GOP has long been a party of white supremacy, misogyny, Islamophobia,and a host of other oppressions. And GOP women understand the specific role they play to maintain it. They're also learning that to succeed vs the boys, they must outdo the boys in hate-- enter MTG & Boebert

Lawmakers like Greene and Boebert are emblematic of white women who undergird right-wing populism - as voters and candidates. Trump might have lost the 2020 election but he won white women voters with a bigger margin than in 2016 - 52% in 2016 to 55% in 2020.

The record number of Republican women who flipped blue seats red in 2020 are anti-feminists who are enjoying the fruits of what feminism has long fought

All as they cut feminism at its knees by opposing abortion rights, paid family leave, equal pay, and espouse racist views.

I often talk about the Christian Brotherhood in the US–an ideology that undergirds politics in white supremacist Christianity.

While the Brotherhood is absolutely patriarchal, the “sisters”–white, Christian women I call Foot Soldiers of the Patriarchy—gladly do its bidding.

The “sisters” are a tag team of white, Christian terrorists, legislators, attorneys general, governors, and judges, like MTG and Boebert, who have been instrumental in destroying abortion rights feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…

And every step of the way, the cowardice and racism of the US media has given these dangerous white women a free pass:

Exhibit A

feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-… #MarjorieTaylorGreene

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

In a profile of Mississippi Attorney General Lynn Fitch, who is the face of a law that looks set to end the federally protected right to an abortion, the Washington Post did not once use the words “patriarchy” or “feminism” or “white supremacy” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…

Compare the tip-toeing and the reluctance to call these women what they are – enemies of feminism, foot soldiers and benefactors of the patriarchy, etc – to the fluency in describing the danger and harm of the women of the Muslim Brotherhood whenever they appear in U.S. media.

Fed up as I am with the consistent refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I suggest you forget the Bechdel Test & follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test: If Marjorie Taylor Greene was a Muslim she'd be in Gitmo
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If the white women who stormed the Capitol were Muslim, they would have been called “fanatics” and “extremists,” and vilified for the violence they committed, not constantly remembered by loved ones as the best version of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

If Amy Coney Barrett was a Muslim, her zealotry would have been pathologized, not earn her a lifetime post on the highest court in the land. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

If Lauren Boebert was a Muslim and tried to take her Glock into the Capitol, she would be expelled and put on trial as a terrorist feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

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