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Nothing threatens the
patriarchy more than a
woman unafraid to demand
attention

By: Mona Eltahawy

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Summary
Speaker Occasion Audience
Of the
Article

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5.

Purpose Subject + IB
Structure/ Tone
Global Issue
Connection
 Summary of The Article
Kenza
● She explains that the patriarchy uses attention as
a derogatory term when referring to women

● Use attention to diminish intellectual property

● Trumps insensitive comment to Wilson

● SlutWalks
● Monas Arrests
● #Mosquemetoo
Zineb
Speaker

Mona Eltahawy Intention

“I’m a writer. And I am a

woman”
Anti-racist, Feminist, public
speaker and protester
→ “ I believe is necessary to make
racism socially unacceptable.”
→ “ I also spoke to media from
around the world”
Be heard
→ “ I am here to say I do
want your attention, and
just as importantly, I
deserve it.”
 Occasion
Zineb Hint:
International Women's Day (March 8) is a global
day celebrating the achievements of women. March 8th
● Ironic→ Eltahawy is saying that there is
nothing to celebrate we are being silenced
by the patriarchy

The Continuous Rinse and repeat

- Assaults of the Egyptian riot police

- #Mosquemetoo
- Trump accusing Wilson of lying.
- Slutwalk festival
- Eltahawy’s arrest in NY
AYA Who does
Audience she
● Primary audience: address?
○ Women (victims silenced by the patriarchy)
■ Like sex, attention will always be used against you: Maybe it’s
because you want the “wrong” kind, or maybe its because
everything you do is “just for attention.”, “Today, let us split the
world open.”
○ Westerners (Patriarchy)
■ For example, when Rep. Frederica Wilson (D-FL) said last year
that President Donald Trump”.” “how about that for irony,
patriarchy?”
■ Posted on an American broadcaster NBC News
● Secondary Audience
○ Muslim/ arab world
■ References them often
■ “#MosqueMeToo has gone global and as painful as the stories
are, it has been heartening to see so many Muslim women speak
out.”
■ “Egyptian riot police beat me”
AY
A Audience

● Sympathetic audience (with the grain)

○ Victims of misogyny
○ Feminists
○ Witnesses to the oppression women face
● Neutral audience
○ Bystanders
● Hostile audience (against the grain)
○ The Patriarchy
○ Religious leaders of islam (conservative)
 Purpose
Kenza “What would happen if a woman told the truth about her life?
Hint:
The world would split open.
Today, let us split the world open.”
02 ● Encourage victims of the patriarchy to.
○ Encourages a sort of a revolution for women
to seek attention
03 ■ Make a change
■ Give them courage
○ speak up

“Yes, I want attention,” I replied. “I have important things to

say and they deserve attention. I write about important
things and they deserve attention.”

“You heard me: I will take more than my allotted five minutes”

● Redefine attention
● Prove that women are worthy of it
 Purpose
Kenza Hint:
“It is meant to undermine our original point, shaming us for

02 speaking then diminishing our intellectual authority.”

● Explain how men have given attention a negative

03 connotation to undermine women’s intellectual
property

“If attention were the 24-hour news cycle, then 23 hours and
55 minutes of it would be considered the natural property of
men”

● Reveal the contrast between how men and women

are treated/viewed
○ Speaks to the hierarchy in today's society
○ Shows who truly has power
Aya Structure/ Connection
Starts/ends with a simple sentence:
○ Declarative
02 ○
○
Direct
Provocative
○ Presents them as the truth

03 Nothing threatens the patriarchy more than a woman unafraid to demand attention;
● Start: “Attention, unlike sex, is something men usually give and women usually take.”
● End:“Today, let us split the world open.”
Who Really Put Saudi Women Behind the Wheel?
● Start: Feminism terrifies authoritarians.
● End:There is a reason that feminism terrifies authoritarians.”

Rinse and repeat

used to indicate the continual repetition of an action or sequence of events
● It creates a link between all the situations
● Reveals repetition of situation
● Highlights
○ How often attention used as a derogatory term
○ Undermine women’s words
○ Shame women for speaking
○ Diminishing their intellectual authority
Aya Structure/ Connection
02 Rhetorical question:
used to persuade or subtly influence the audience

03 Nothing threatens the patriarchy more than a woman unafraid to demand

attention:
● how about that for irony, patriarchy?
‘Black Panther’ and the anti-black racism of Egyptians
● How with such a disavowal of all things African can they appreciate the
celebration of all things African that powers through “Black Panther”?
Why Saudi Women Are Literally Living ‘The Handmaid’s Tale’
● Was the calculation that simple to make?
Who Really Put Saudi Women Behind the Wheel?
● “Why else would the Saudi crown prince... a 28-year-old graduate student,
incommunicado for weeks?”
Why do they hate us?
● “After all, shouldn’t everyone get basic rights first, before women demand
special treatment?”
Aya Subject
● Topic:
○ patriarchy degrade women by calling them attention seekers → to keep
them oppressed as the attention threatens them

03 ● Arguments:
○ Men view attention as their natural property
○ Women labeled as attention seekers when they speak out on injustices
→ to distract from their original argument/ ideas
○ Rinse and repeat chorus → happens too often

● Scare quotes= draw attention to an unusual or arguably inaccurate use.

○ “easily” she’s labeled a “whore, “just for attention”
Aya Subject/ Arguments
Counterargument → highlight how they twist the truth
02 ●
○ Enter patriarchy.
● Rinse and repeat cycle
○ Ethos→ Strengthens her credibility
03 ■ Enter the patriarchy. Rinse: You threw yourself at the police so
that they could beat you so that you could appear on television.
Repeat: You are monopolizing your injuries for fame.”
○ Pathos → provoke audience + develop emotional response
■ Rinse: Trump accused Wilson of being a liar.n Repeat:
Conservative media outlets painted Wilson as “desperately
seeking attention.” Fox News even published an opinion piece
by a psychologist in which the author accused Wilson repeatedly
of being an attention seeker.”
○ Logos → objective evidence for arguments
■ Her post was shared at least 2,000 times.” Enter the patriarchy.
Rinse: You’re an ugly lying whore. Who would want to sexually
assault you? You just want attention. Repeat: You’re a nobody
and you just want fame.
Zineb Connecting to IB Global Issues
Politics, power and justice
Mona Eltahawy explores: the role the patriarchy plays in silencing victims of their oppression.

“If attention were the 24-hour news

cycle, then 23 hours and 55 minutes of
it would be considered the natural
property of men. Women can forget
about their 15 minutes of fame —
that’s far too generous! Woe is the
woman who demands more than her
allotted five minutes.”
“Whether the patriarchy
targets you in a personal
or a political setting, the
goal is always the same”
“ First, it aims to punish women who
speak out, especially if our “attention
seeking” directly challenges the
patriarchy. Wilson had exposed the
callousness of the president. Second,
it is meant to undermine our original
point, shaming us for speaking then
diminishing our intellectual authority.”
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Kenza
Tone

03
Polemic Indignant Satirical

“Chorus and refrain” “Cycle” Use of irony in

exposing the
“Punish” “Undermine” patriarchy
“Woe”
“easily”
how about that for irony,
patriarchy? “taunts”
“Attention
“you just want attention” rinse whore”
and repeat chorus
“perilous”
“Just for
attention” a
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