Thread by @monaeltahawy

A week after #Jan6, I wrote this:

"If Donald Trump could give birth, it would have been to Marjorie Taylor Greene and Lauren Boebert, both of whom are clearly created in his image"

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And 3 weeks after #Jan6, I wrote this:

If MTG was a Muslim, she would be in Guantanamo Bay, in shackles. But because she is white, evangelical, and a woman--a rich one at that--she is instead a member of Congress in the most powerful country in the world. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

Elle magazine, Oct 2020: “MTG, Republican nominee for Georgia’s 14th congressional district, is like a lot of white women you might encounter in the suburbs. She has long blonde hair & does CrossFit. She wears cute dangly earrings, tasteful blouses & sheath dresses..."

NYT magazine Oct 2022:

It only took U.S. media 2 years.

The danger, always, is that someone as vile as Greene is normalized by U.S. media.

White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence.

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The record number of GOP women who flipped blue seats red in 2020 midterms are anti-feminists who are enjoying the fruits of what feminism has long fought forall as they cut feminism at its knees by opposing abortion rights, paid family leave, equal pay, and espouse racist views.

All but one of the new GOP female lawmakers are white. Thanks to its own white supremacy that acts like cataracts impairing its ability to see its own racism, U.S. media tip toes around them & refuses to call them out for the racists & fascists among them feministgiant.com/p/a-white-supr…

That QAnon, a far-right conspiracy movement which the FBI labelled a domestic terror threat in 2019, elected Greene and Boebert to Congress speaks volumes to the depraved depths that white supremacy will plunder as it clings to power.

Lawmakers like Greene and Boebert are emblematic of white women who undergird right-wing populism - as voters and candidates. Just because they are so fond of posing with weapons, don’t take a Glock as a stand-in for feminism.

Greene was dangerous and vile long before she was elected but because much of her vileness was directed at Muslims, Black people, and Jews, Republicans shrugged and carried on being the craven shits they are, happy to throw their weight behind anyone who brings them votes.

It is imperative to recognize that MTG, like Trump, is not aberration. She is from Georgia, where 75% of white women voters chose a white man - Brian Kemp - against Stacey Abrams in her campaign for governor in 2018. =

Southern white women are the nexus of the GOP’s Southern Strategy’s reliance on race, gender, and religion to keep white people in that part of the U.S. resolutely Republican and increasingly right wing. feministgiant.com/p/if-marjorie-…

White supremacist and increasingly evangelical patriarchy has an army of willing white women serving as its footsoldiers in the South.

Voting patterns must be disaggregated by region and race because when they are, it is clear that white women do not overwhelmingly vote Democrat

Far from it: 78 percent of white women who call themselves southern voted for Trump in 2016,

salon.com/2019/07/01/the…

The danger, always, is that someone as vile as MTG is normalized by U.S. media.

White, blonde, Christian women--even the dangerous ideologues--are afforded the privilege of default and the audacity of innocence.

The White Women Who Destroyed Roe v Wade
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Remember the above as we get closer to the midterm elections in the U.S.

And remember to disaggregate "women" when you see figures like these reported by the Washington Post.

Always ask: which women?

And in case anyone thinks I spare the Democrats any fuckery.

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