Thread by @monaeltahawy

Every month or so, the Woman Has Said a Bad Word circus comes to town. This time around, the woman is Greta Thunberg, who has been a target of countless powerful misogynist pricks since her early teens.

Good for you, Greta

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And I don't give a flying fuck what she said to that misogynist prick.

If you think she owes a self-described misogynist any form of "sensitivity" and you're attacking her for "body shaming" him, you've got it upside down.

Fuck him and his small dick energy.

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.

Care less about the feelings of misogynist fucks and more about the actual violence they incite.

Profanity is one of The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls because it is politically important. It is the verbal equivalent of civil disobedience.

An excerpt from the chapter on Profanity in my book.

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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.

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And why profanity is right there in the tag line to my newsletter:

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And all the cis men who've suddenly discovered the term "body shaming."

And the 3.5 million who follow that misogynist prick on Twitter.

And the millions who make him a "Tik Tok star."

Fuck all of you and your #smalldickenergy too.

And one more thing:

Ask whoever is in charge of patriarchy why having a small dick is considered an insult or shameful.

Get to the root of that cis man dick swinging contest that harms so many.

That's who you should be angry at.