Let’s enlarge the frame on misogyny

Shailja Patel: Yes, I don’t doubt that Trump will deploy his entire rhetorical arsenal of misogyny against Clinton on TV tonight. So let’s enlarge the frame.

You know what interrupts women around the world?

Airstrikes.

You know what silences women – forever?

Bombs.

You know what demonstrates absolute contempt for women’s knowledge, experience, and leadership?

Fracking. Pipelines. Neoliberal US-sponsored coups.

You know what dehumanizes women?

Sweatshop labour. Deportation back to US-funded death squads. Selling billions of dollars of arms to regimes that ban women from driving, ban women from public space without a male ‘guardian,’ lash women in public for reporting rape.