Instead of saying “I hope women can also enjoy the freedom I have to post pictures of their bodies and express themselves freely, as I do,” Bassem Youssef sent me the following DMs. I have no problem publishing private messages from MAN BABIES https://twitter.com/monaeltahawy/status/1300849038804291584">https://twitter.com/monaeltah...

First he whines. By the way - ICYMI - I, Mona, KNOW what being attacked daily online is. And here is a man trying to elicit my sympathy about the way he’s attacked?! Ha! It’s a fucking war zone for women here. And I wasn’t even attaching him

I should’ve just ignored him but I thought I would remind him that as a satirist, he should not be so thin skinned

I attached this oped I wrote in 2013 to remind him of what he used to do https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/10/egypt-satire-bassem-youssef">https://www.google.com/amp/s/amp...

And then he went full on “you were mean to me” (See my first tweet in which I said I was HAPPY for him and Salah) and he calls me “abrasive” aka a woman with an opinion he doesn’t like

And then he just used my words about him. As I reminded him: there are women in Egypt IN JAIL for being witnesses in a gang rape case and other women for TIkTok. And he’s upset?! Zero tolerance for man babies. This is bullshit male privilege - they make it about them. I am done.

I WILL publish any nonsense and shit that men send me - privately or otherwise.

I done with men who make it all about them! For fuck’s sake. Enough already.

Also - learn when you’re being attacked and when you’re not being attacked.