After I beat up a man who groped me in a club, a manager pointed at @rerutled & asked me “Why didn’t you let your husband take care of it?”

Me: “He’s not my husband. This is my body. I take care of it.”

I don’t want to be protected. I want to be free.

I don’t want to be protected. I want patriarchy to stop protecting men who are violent towards women.

Patriarchy protects men who are violent towards women.

Patriarchy allows only men to “protect” women from other men.

Patriarchy punishes women who protect themselves.

Patriarchy allows only men to both hurt and protect women because patriarchy socializes men in the belief that they own our bodies, are entitled to them.

I own my body.

In The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls, I write about beating up the man who sexually assaulted me

I wanted that man who assaulted me to remember that this average height woman, whose ass be believed he could just reach out and grope without fear of retaliation, beat the fuck out of him. And I started #IBeatMyAssaulter

Remember:
- not everyone can call the police.

- not everyone wants to call the police.

- the police do not protect everyone: ask Indigenous women, Black women, women of colour, marginalized women, sex workers, etc

- I do not want to be protected. I want to be free of violence

In this interview, I tell @laignee that I started #MosqueMeToo to talk about being sexually assaulted at Hajj when I was 15, and why I started #IBeatMyAssaulter after I beat up a man who sexually assaulted me at a club when I was 50 http://time.com/5170236/mona-eltahawy-mosquemetoo/

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