Mona Eltahawy

It did not have a twist in it in which she said, "Well, actually, I don't hate men." It was a straightforward account of why she thought it was perfectly appropriate for women to hate men and why men should respond to that hatred by trying to supplicate women, by taking a step back, voting for feminist women, uh, and trying to get more women who hate them into positions of power, and that seems to be a quite standard, um, position on the part of feminist women that receives relatively little pushback.

Mona Eltahawy, who is a, uh, Egyptian American author and activist, uh, has publicly fantasized about vigilante justice against men in which a certain number of men would be killed every week until patriarchy finally stopped its alleged war on women.

Uh, she's gushed about the thrill she got one night allegedly by beating the man who groped her at a Montreal nightclub and how wonderful that was and how she hopes more women and girls will enact justifiable violence against men.

You know, all of these kinds of sentiments are quite standard in our society, and whenever I mention them, uh, there's many, many more, many of which I mention in my book, whenever I mention them to, to, um, feminists, I used to debate with feminists on X, the, uh, lack of shame on the part of women in response to these kinds of statements is, uh, remarkably consistent and remarkable.

Um, who was participating in these protests, and what were they trying to achieve?

I would like to mention Mona Eltahawy, the American Egyptian feminist who named this revolution a feminist revolution early on, one week after it started in Iran, and showed solidarity with women in Iran on the streets.

Yes, the solidarity was huge across the world and for different reasons.

But let's focus on this one really big demonstration in Berlin on October 2020, in which up to 100,000 people gathered and marched Woman, Life, Freedom from the Iranian diaspora and their allies.