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The more they undress, the more #Egyptian men are celebrated for virility, masculinity, strength. These are students of the Police Academy on display on Thursday for our fascist dictator Sisi, whose regime has been arresting women for dancing and singing, fully clothed, on TikTok
When they undress, #Egyptian male celebrities expect to be praised. They are not slut-shamed or criminalized.
#Egyptian women are criminalized, slut-shamed & punished in the name of “morality” - whether they are in “revealing” clothes or hijab. Actress Rania Youssef faced jail in 2019, for "inciting debauchery" over a dress http://bbc.in/2D2JY32
In the name of “morality” the #Egyptian regime has arrested and jailed at least 9 young, mostly working class women for singing, dancing, and posting selfies on Tik-Tok - fully clothed FYI. https://www.huffingtonpost.in/entry/egypt-tiktok-arrests_in_5f2ba248c5b6b9cff7ed2189?ncid=other_twitter_cooo9wqtham&utm_campaign=share_twitter
Also, this homoerotic display of graduates of the #Egyptian Police Academy is taking place in a blatantly homophobic country https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2017/10/26/opinion/egypt-gay-lgbt-rights.amp.html
Patriarchy is adept at these seeming paradoxes: see #Russia and Putin’s shirtless photographs in a country where homophobia and misogyny are pillars of patriarchy. The message is clear - we dictate when and how your bodies can be displayed because Patriarchy owns your bodies.
The preening hypermasculinity comes at a time in #Egypt when an unprecedented # of women are exposing sexual assault. Sisi’s regime is trying to terrorize them into silence via TikTok women arrests & arrests of witnesses in support of a gang rape victim https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-still-hate-us?r=50le&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&utm_source=twitter
Patriarchy, in this case the #Egyptian regime, reserves its moral crusades for queer people and women, especially the daughters of the working class, but not the sons of the wealthy who rape and sexually assault. https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-still-hate-us
Justice will not be served by a predatory and patriarchal State. That same State which rapes female activists (“virginity tests”) and gay men )”anal tests”) will not deliver us justice. https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-still-hate-us
Asking a State which has sexually assaulted us to get us justice from men who sexually assault us is like asking Patriarchy to protect us from patriarchy. Nothing protects us from that system of oppressions The real justice comes from destroying patriarchy https://feministgiant.substack.com/p/why-do-they-still-hate-us
Trump is a fascist misogynist and homophobic white supremacist who calls Sisi “my favourite dictator” and is BFFs with Putin.
If he could, he would be dancing topless
If he could, he would be dancing topless
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