Mona Eltahawy Instagram – New essay: Who but a white Christian man could tell a class of graduating women in 2024 that they were probably most excited about becoming mothers and wives, only to have other white people in the United States (of White Supremacist Patriarchy) act shocked?
Who do you think has been voting for the politicians and judges who are systematically stripping women of autonomy in the United States of Post-Roe v Wade to ensure that they become mothers and wives?
“I think it is you, the women, who have had the most diabolical lies told to you,” Harrison Butker, the kicker for Super Bowl Champion the Kansas City Chiefs, had the fucking nerve to say in his commencement speech at Benedictine College, a private Catholic liberal arts school in Atchison, Kansas. “Some of you may go on to lead successful careers in the world, but I would venture to guess that the majority of you are most excited about your marriage and the children you will bring into this world.”
So successful has white supremacist patriarchy been at convincing white women especially that they’re lucky to live in the U.S. and not Saudi Arabia or Iran, that so many white women did not pay enough attention to the theocracy that white supremacy was building right here at home. It was being built by white men who look like their fathers, brothers, husbands, and sons, not the scary brown Muslim men with beards, right? It was being built by the white men with beards like Harrison Butker. But white Christian men are considered the default and norm and not scary in the U.S, right?
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https://www.feministgiant.com/p/essay-if-harrison-butker-was-a-muslim | Posted on 02/Jun/2024 19:28:38
