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Mona Eltahawy

“Why do those men hate us? They hate us because they need us, they fear us, they understand how much control it takes to keep us in line, to keep us good girls with our hymens intact until it’s time for them to fuck us into mothers who raise future generations of misogynists to forever fuel their patriarchy. They hate us because we are at once their temptation and their salvation from that patriarchy, which they must sooner or later realize hurts them, too. They hate us because they know that once we rid ourselves of the alliance of State and Street that works in tandem to control us, we
will demand a reckoning.”

Mona Eltahawy, Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution
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Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution Headscarves and Hymens: Why the Middle East Needs a Sexual Revolution by Mona Eltahawy
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