Thread by @monaeltahawy

In my January 10, 2021 essay about #January6, I wrote about the audacious innocence afforded to white womanhood.

It is the most popular FEMINIST GIANT essay. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

And now, more than a year later: “Women put 'friendly face' on Jan. 6 attack, extremism research argues in new study.”

WHITE women. Say it.

nbcnews.com/politics/natio… h/t @rerutled

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My thread from January 11, 2021

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1348660705906614272

Even when they join an insurrection, even as they pummel their way through the doors that held back the mob braying for violence from the upper echelons of the U.S. government, white women are still remembered for the best versions of themselves. feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

"The researchers also dived into the role gender has played in sentencing, as attorneys for female Jan. 6 defendants have “articulated narratives emphasizing their clients’ naivety, vulnerability, and traditionally feminine roles.”" nbcnews.com/politics/natio…

Female Jan. 6 defendants "again and again and again" downplayed their culpability by emphasizing their roles as mothers, daughters and caregivers."

"Although the media is full of male QAnon supporters who stormed the Capitol, QAnon--which FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019-- is driven largely by suburban white women - particularly mothers. It has elected 2 reps to Congress,both white women" feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

Pause and ponder that for a moment: a movement labeled a domestic terror threat is driven by white suburban women. According to a timeline of violence linked to QAnon between 2018-2020 compiled by the Guardian, women were arrested for 5/12 instances. And now: an insurrection.

Much like QAnon, the antiabortion movement is driven largely by white, Christian women. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-te…

In Women Against Abortion: Inside the Largest Moral Reform Movement of the Twentieth Century, Karissa Haugeberg explains how they get away with it:

Those same white and Christian women are rarely analysed, examined and pathologized in the way that Muslim women are. White and Christian are considered default – the harmless norm – in the U.S. feministgiant.com/p/if-amy-coney…

White women are afforded an innocence that is both a reward & leash that ensures they work diligently on behalf of a patriarchy upon which their own livelihood depends.And which they must remember will hurt them because nothing protects you from patriarchy feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…

White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

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 and follow my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test, which holds up a mirror to the hypocrisy of U.S. media feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

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