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Narjas Zatat
Feb 27, 2018
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Academy Award-winning director Michael Moore is an outspoken social critic who often takes to Twitter to share clever anecdotes about the world writ large.
People have been re-sharing one such instance, when Moore tried to make an important point about how men, rather than women had a propensity to damage, break and destroy things. It fell short.
No women ever invented an atomic bomb, built a smoke stack, initiated a Holocaust, melted the polar ice caps or organized a school shooting.— Michael Moore (@Michael Moore) 1477766650
The 2016 tweet has exchange has gone viral on Reddit with Jessica Ellis pointing out that, well, Moore was mistaken.
Well... this is spectacularly not true https://t.co/f23ZDTrJFr— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477787528
Women were involved in the creation of the nuclear weapon
@MMFlint This is Elizabeth Graves. Her work on the Manhattan Project in Los Alamos was essential to developing nucl… https://t.co/44Wu9Oyots— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788505
And in the smoke stack
@MMFlint This is Mary Walton. She patented two smoke stacks. https://t.co/0BiomwxP4F— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788548
They were aggressors during the Holocaust
This is Ilse Koch, a commandant of Buchenwald. https://t.co/JJFHAa7eR5— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788689
And they do in fact contribute to the melting of the polar ice caps
As for melting the polar ice caps, meet Ceri Powell, head of global exploration for Shell. https://t.co/8kHTqTpS54— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788738
Women have also committed atrocities like school shootings
And the first modern school shooter was Brenda Spencer, a teenage girl.— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788796
Ellis wasn’t using her platform to brag – far from it.
There are women – like men – who are morally reprehensible, and pushing a Victorian ‘women are pure’ agenda is damaging both men and women.
Women have faced a boatload of opression at the hands of the patriarchy, but you do not get to erase us. We are not ivory monuments.— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788830
And telling women that there is no dark side to them, that they are pure as cream, is detrimental to their mental health. We are not better.— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788861
To suggest so, you not only remove our agency and erase us from history, you cauterize our ability to make choices.— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788902
Being ethically good is no easier for us than it is for men. It's time you stopped acting like goodness comes out of our vaginas. We choose.— Jessica Ellis (@Jessica Ellis) 1477788938
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