'Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women'
feministgiant.com/p/essay-dear…
Excellent piece by the wonderful Mona Eltahawy

Some TL:DR quotes:
"This isn’t a “whose flavour of patriarchy is worse” letter. This is a “fuck the patriarchy everywhere” grenade that I gift to you. This is not The Handmaid’s Tale, it’s real life. This is a wake the fuck up because clearly you’ve been drifting, cruising on the delusions that your whiteness will save you from white supremacist patriarchy."

"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?"

"Fuck theocracy everywhere.

Fuck fascism everywhere.

Fuck the patriarchy in every time zone and every universe.

Burn. Shit. Down."

#Feminism #Iran #US #Patriarchy

Essay: Dear White Women Cheering Iranian Women

Photo: Christian Mang/Reuters This essay is paired with Iran’s Feminist Revolution—Women, Life, Freedom It’s thrilling, isn’t it, watching women far away rise up? Especially when they are women whose plight was always used to shut you up.

^{Mona Eltahawy (FEMINIST GIANT)}