The number of times white people in the US have asked me “Why do Muslim women submit so easily to patriarchy?!” If #AmyConeyBarrett was a Muslim, you would not hear the end of this. But US media will skirt around this because she’s white and Christian and that for them is default
My next essay will be called If Amy Coney Barrett Was a Muslim.

#AmyConeyBarrett
White women in the Midwest in a swing state where they probably voted for fascist fuck Trump and who probably love #AmyConeyBarrett have the nerve to ask my sister-in-law - at the fucking supermarket, just go up to her & point at her hijab “Did your husband make you wear that?”
A white woman after one of my talks in Texas asked me how she could save #Egyptian women from FGM. She lives in Texas: God, guns and GOP Land. I said to her that women in Egypt were fighting already and that she needed to liberate her fellow women in Texas. #AmyConeyBarrett
A white woman just last year during a fellowship event asked me “Don’t Muslim women who wear hijab realize they’re saying they’re sex objects” and a few sentences later said - without a blink of irony - that her son’s girlfriend voted for Trump.
#AmyConeyBarrett
If white women in the US had fought white supremacist patriarchy over here as hard as they wanted to fight Brown people patriarchy over there and obsessed less with Muslim women and more with their own oppression, we would not have Trump or #AmyConeyBarrett
I’ve written 2 books:

-Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution (2105) targeting patriarchy in the Middle East and North Africa

- The Seven Necessary Sins For Women and Girls (2019) targeting patriarchy in the US & worldwide.
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Patriarchy is over here, not just over there.

And I’ll be fucking damned if I tiptoe around #AmyConeyBarrett.

A Footsoldier of the White Supremacist Patriarchy is the enemy of all women.
And this is actually trending: exactly which white supremacist patriarchal sect does a potential Supreme Court Justice belong to?!
Is it:

- White supremacist patriarchal sect #1 People of Praise?

- White supremacist patriarchal sect #2 People of Hope

Either way: anyone not a white supremacist patriarch is fucked.
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