1/Aoun's broadcast "conversation" with 2 selected male journalists is a lesson in #patriarchy 1. patriarchy structures relations between men and women AND btw men generationally & socio-economically. it is a web of power and positionalities not a binary/ #لبنان__ينتفض #Lebanon

2. patriarchy is an embodied affect. Aoun is incredulous that anyone would DARE challenge or press him 4 anything but prepared answers. His entitlement 2 his position is clear-any challenge is met with escalation & purposeful tone-deafness. the patriarch will always
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3. insist on controlling the tone, flow, & content of discourse. Patriarchy also relies on the entanglement of intimacy & violence- family structure is key. The "father of all" who "loves all" will hurt and insult you in attempt to "save" you from yourself
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4. When it comes 2 this violent intimacy, it is always you (protestors) at fault for pushing the patriarch too far, for "forcing" him to be violent/aggressive in order to maintain his unquestionable position. This is how we should read the "go immigrate" comment-
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5. Patriarchy is a structure, not an event or a person. example; census bureaucracy in produces women & minors as extensions of men. example 2: troika system-with each leader supposedly embodying intersets of entire sect. Finally, President Patriarch Aoun
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6/ the "father of all" is deeply invested in honor talk. This is why claims of protestors R treated as PERSONAL attacks & disrespect. Patriarchy lives on personalizing structural problems & infantilizing protestors
Aoun's interview is only fuel to
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