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Jul 7 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
How often do you see a film that centres a woman in her early 60s who wants to fuck? #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
How often do films center a woman in her early 60s? I am 54yo and can barely watch films & TV shows these days because they’re too often about high school students or 31yos whose dilemmas are too far in my past to care about & whose parents are too peripheral to keep my attention
Heteronormative patriarchy’s designated shelf life for cisgender women is the age at which we cease to be its walking incubators. And yet here is a woman who not only wants to fuck feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-… #GoodLucktoYouLeoGrande
Patriarchy’s Map of Life for us women 50 and older delineates: a Hiking Trail Into the Kingdom of Shriveling Up and Fading Away.

Which is why films about older women are so important e.g. #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
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And I know they're looking to get me fired because I said Fuck the Supreme Court and I believe zealots like Kavanaugh should be protested everywhere.

Here's my boss: me

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So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women like Bette Midler that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women didn't pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building at home A tweet by Bette Midler that shows a photograph of the Supre
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It's good to see many, finally, say "Fuck the Supreme Court."

This isn't the time for politeness or civility. I refuse to be civil w/religious zealots who don't recognize my full humanity; who are denying me the fundamental right of ownership of my body. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
Politeness is capitulation.

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There is nothing polite or civil about patriarchy.

Who benefits from upholding those social codes? Civility, decorum,etc are used to uphold authority--patriarchy, whiteness, wealth, other forms of privilege--and we are urged to acquiesce in service to maintaining that authority.
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