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Jul 24 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Fuck civility:

This—from November 2019–has been viewed 1.8 million times and I am thrilled.

#WhyISayFuck
Fuck civility.

And this—from January 2020–has been viewed 4 million times and I am thrilled.

🎥 @rerutled
#WhyISayFuck
Fuck civility.

This is #WhyISayFuck

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Jul 25
When will US media finally say that this is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core? From abortion bans to “women must stay in abusive marriages.”

vice.com/en/article/93a…
The U.S. media don’t want to call them zealots, don’t want to call it a theocracy, don’t want to say they’re patriarchal, don’t want to say they’re anti-feminist. They tiptoe around all of this because these are white Christian people, ie “default.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
From Vance to Gaetz and a whole bunch of misogynist fucks in between

"Why is it that the women with the least likelihood of getting pregnant are the ones most worried about having abortions? Nobody wants to impregnate you if you look like a thumb."

Read 10 tweets
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Jul 25
Cis het men like Matt Gaetz act as if their penises and semen are some kind of reward or gift that anoints us super duper women or something.
When I write about my abortions, misogynist fucks like Matt Gaetz tweet @ me "You're lying. Nobody wanted to impregnante you," as if pregnancy is some kind of reward.

And yet, they oppose abortion because they also think pregnancy is some kind of punishment.

Which is it?
Abortion bans are intent on punishing us for daring to take ownership of our bodies and our sexual desire outside of the norms. They aim to police our bodies and punish us for sex outside norms. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-se…
Read 11 tweets
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Jul 25
I see that Ashli Babbitt is trending because of her racist fuck of a mother. So let me remind you who Ashli Babbitt was.
Ashli Babbitt never imagined she would survive fighting for regime change “over there” only to die fighting for regime change “over here.” feministgiant.com/p/white-women-…
The 14-year Air Force veteran who fought in both Iraq and Afghanistan was the only person shot by Capitol Police while trying to storm the Congress of her own country.
Read 14 tweets
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Jul 25
Fed up as I am w/ refusal to take seriously the danger of white women like Marjorie Taylor Greene, I riff off the Bechdel Test w/ my If so-and-so was a Muslim Test, holding up a mirror to hypocrisy of US media by cutting through the fuckery that white women are allowed to commit
From September 2020: 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…
Jan 10 2021: 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-…
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Jul 25
I was shocked to discover just how pervasive religion in politics is in the United States when I moved here in 2000. It is stupefying to see every candidate for political office espouse a faith. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
That religion should play no role in politics is a truism that U.S. media and Americans in general apply only to someone else’s country (particularly countries which are not majority Christian, like my country of birth)
It is easy to see theocracy when the theocrats don’t look like you. But it’s imperative to understand that the theocrats who look like you and those who don’t both follow the same rule book: control desire and control our bodies. feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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Jul 24
The U.S. media remains incapable of saying clearly that this is a white supremacist Christian movement driven by white supremacist, Christian zealots who are patriarchal to the core.

So they hide behind “imposter.” #ChristianNationalism A picture of a person holding a cross with the dome of the U
The U.S. media don’t want to call them zealots, don’t want to call it a theocracy, don’t want to say they’re patriarchal, don’t want to say they’re anti-feminist. They tiptoe around all of this because these are white Christian people, ie “default.” feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-wh…
Because it is difficult to see zealots and theocrats when they look like you

feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-ha…
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