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Dec 13 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Every month or so, the Woman Has Said a Bad Word circus comes to town. This time around, it's Jacinda Ardern who called a man what he probably is feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-…
I wrote this on the obsession with "civility" and #WhyISayFuck

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Patriarchy reserves for itself the power to offend, the power to be obscene. And yet it wastes no time in policing women’s mouths as vehemently as it does the genitals of anyone who is not a cisgender heterosexual man.

#WhyISayFuck
Whether we are urged to be civil to racists or polite to patriarchy, the goal is the same: to maintain the power of the racist, to maintain the power of patriarchy.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-why-i-… #WhyISayFuck
Profanity is an essential tool in disrupting patriarchy and its rules. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.

It's why Profanity is one of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls penguinrandomhouse.com/books/609114/t… #WhyISayFuck
And why profanity is right there in the tag line to my newsletter:

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Dec 15
So glad to see #EverythingEverywhereAllAtOnce on so many nominations list.

One of my favourites this year.

I wrote about it here feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
To see an Asian woman in her 50s ponder her other selves & the lives she could have had,is subversive. During a time when pandemic bigotry & violence in the U.S. targeted Asians, esp women & elders, a film that centres Asian woman in her 50s is subversive feministgiant.com/p/essay-the-me…
Talking of older women and subversive, disappointed that Good Luck To You, Leo Grande didn’t get more nominations so far. feministgiant.com/p/the-fuck-it-…
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Dec 9
It is good to see Oprah Winfrey and Maria Shriver share their experience of menopause.

Oprah said she ended Oprah's Book Club because her menopause transition left her unable to focus long enough to read

today.com/health/womens-…
And that heart palpitations--an impact of the menopause transition--took her to 5 different doctors.

“Nobody ever once suggested that it could be menopause."

“I have journals filled with ‘I don’t know if I’ll make it until the morning...I thought I was going to die every night"
Both women talk about the fine line between destigmatizing menopause by talking openly about anxiety, listelessness, palpitations, etc while also not contributing to ageism and the "women are crazy anyway" messages already out there.
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Dec 8
tw: regime violence, gender-based violence

Iranian security forces are targeting women at anti-regime protests with shotgun fire to their faces, breasts and genitals, according to interviews with medics across the country. theguardian.com/global-develop… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution
"Doctors and nurses – treating demonstrators in secret to avoid arrest – said they first observed the practice after noticing that women often arrived with different wounds to men, who more commonly had shotgun pellets in their legs, buttocks and backs." #IranRevolution
Revolutions are dangerous. All who rise up risk death and serious injury. The Iranian regime has factored gender into that risk.

A doctor from Isfahan province told The Guardian the regime "wanted to destroy the beauty of these women".

#IranRevolution #mahsaami̇ni̇
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Dec 8
Whether the Time magazine picture shows a peace sign/victory sign, it makes it seem as if the women were going to a concert or a picnic, not a revolution where they’ve been burning things and in which their lives are in danger for daring to rise up. #MahsaAmini #IranRevolution
Revolutions are profane and dangerous for those who revolt and those they revolt against.

Revolutions can do this to you. This is from exactly 11yrs ago, taken coincidentally for Time magazine's Person of the Year: The Protester, for which I was one of several.
📷 Peter Hapek Mona in a black sleeveless ...
The Iranian regime and its security forces have done similar and much worse to those rising up.

Revolutions are not picnics or concerts.

Don't sanitize the images of those who rise up.

Revolutions are not polite.

feministgiant.com/p/essay-women-… #mahsaami̇ni̇ #IranRevolution
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Dec 7
The revolution is not polite.

Mona Eltahawy: I’m serious about women fighting back. I want patriarchy to fear us irishtimes.com/culture/books/…
#WhyISayFuck

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Mona Eltahawy Would Like You to Fuck Right Off With Your Civility Politics vice.com/en/article/xgq…
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Dec 7
Mainstream media stumble when portraying revolutions and protests that are deliberately profane. As well as the feminist revolution in Iran, I'm also thinking of feminist-led protests in Poland in 2020
In daily protests organized by the feminist initiative Women’s Strike, they chanted “fuck off,” held massive banners that told the right-wing populist Law and Justice (PiS) government to “Get the fuck out” and “PiS off." feministgiant.com/p/fuck-is-a-fe…
Many of the articles about the protests in Poland, esp captions of photographs showing protestors holding signs such as one that read “If I wanted politics in my vagina, I’d fuck a senator,” were preceded by warnings that profanity lay ahead, to protect sensibility of the reader.
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