FEMINIST GIANT Does Not Wish Donald Trump Well by @monaeltahawy https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/editorial-feminist-giant-does-not?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter

I do not wish Trump well. Fuck Trump.

To socialize us into an obedience aimed at maintaining its power over us, patriarchy forces us to swallow our rage and to spit out sympathy for its devils...

...even when its devils dance to the tune of our pain as they receive the best care that will shelter them from harm. Trump will receive the kind of medical care denied to millions of Americans. He will not be forced into unemployment or evicted from his home.

We will not see him sitting in a wheelchair, abandoned on a street corner in the rain. He will not despair over how he can feed his family. He will not stare across the table at his children,knowing he cannot make dinner appear magically tomorrow night.

I do not wish Trump well

Nor will he wonder if he must choose between calling an ambulance if he struggles to breathe or toughing it out at home because the bill for that ambulance alone will bankrupt him. He will not stare from his bed in the darkness and die alone.

I launched FEMINIST GIANT Newsletter so that I could write essays like that

To say what I want to say, when I want to say it.

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