Thread by @monaeltahawy

I wrote this letter to white women cheering Iranian women because I’ve had white women come to my events and ask how they can help Muslim women over there somewhere far away because it’s easier than actually doing something about women over here.

https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1574765844021891072

It is way past time for white women in the U.S. who have ever asked “How can I help Muslim women” and “Why do Muslim women submit to misogyny?” to start obsessing instead over their white sisters who benefit from white supremacist & theocratic patriarchy
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It is harder to see Foot Soldiers of the Patriarchy when they look like you.

It is easy to see theocrats when they don't look like you.

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And that’s exactly why white women have not been paying attention. White supremacist patriarchy is their patriarchy. It looks & sounds just like them.

And many of them have helped to build a theocracy, while pointing at & condemning theocracy elsewhere.

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White supremacist and increasingly evangelical patriarchy has an army of willing white women who have delivered victory over a fundamental tenet of feminism–the right to abortion.

Where is your feminist revolution against that theocracy?

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White and Christian are considered default – the harmless norm – in the U.S.

White women are afforded an innocence that is both a reward and a leash, that ensures they work diligently on behalf of a patriarchy upon which their own livelihood depends.

It’s much easier to see Brown men and Black men as the danger. That is where white supremacist patriarchy always kept the attention -- always promised to save white women from.

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The patriarchy atop theocracy melange of Iran’s “morality police” is easier to see because it is so visibly expressed in enforced hijab.

But what is the enforced pregnancy of the Christian zealots in the U.S. but a melange of patriarchy built atop theocracy right here?

White supremacist patriarchy so successfully lulled you into a delusion of “Be grateful you don’t live over there” that you sleep walked your way into the disaster that is now and over here.

The Supreme Court’s reversal of Roe v Wade did not come out of the blue.

In Iran, women are fighting against theocrats who enforce hijab by burning shit down, including their hijab.

In the U.S., what are the women who are fighting against theocrats who enforce abortion bans doing?

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Point to your “morality police”and what they have made compulsory and burn it to the ground and join the revolution that women in Iran have ignited vs theocracy.

Stop pointing over there and point to your theocrats and rise up! feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear-w… #MahsaAmini #IranProtests

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