Mona Eltahawy
Egyptian-American journalist and commentator on feminism, Egypt and the Muslim world; author of Headscarves and Hymens (2015) and The Seven Necessary Sins for Women and Girls (2019); publishes the newsletter Feminist Giant.
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Their wordsThank you, Pete Hegseth, for so perfectly embodying what I’ve long said: it’s easier to see fascists and zealots when they don’t look like you.
↗Essay: 21st Century Zealotfeministgiant.com 1st of 3 in this piece
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Their wordsExecutions, public or behind closed doors are barbaric, anywhere they take place.
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The US death penalty should have been abolished long ago and is inherently racist in its use.
Their wordsThe death penalty which should have been abolished years ago in this country is inherently racist in the ways it is used.
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Their wordsWhen more than two dozen women have said that the current president of the United States of America sexually assaulted them and the majority of voters in the U.S. chose him not once but twice to be their president, it sends a blaring, glaring greenlight to men everywhere that they too can sexually assault with impunity.
↗Essay: Trickle-Down Misogynyfeministgiant.com 1st of 2 in this piece
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Their wordsThey grew up in a United States of America in which Donald Trump was fruition, not an aberration; in which Donald Trump, sexual predator, could surround himself with other sexual predators and misogynists in a reminder that powerful and violent men rarely, if ever, are held accountable and that those powerful and violent men are rewarded, not punished.
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