How would you feel if the person you married, the person you loved, the person who pledged to spend their whole life with you, turned around—once they had gotten some power—and called you nothing more than a mosquito?

This is what happened on the current season of The Diplomat, which I’m watching. I’m transfixed by this show, and it’s one of the most upsetting scenes I have ever seen.

You know, the wife, who’s a career diplomat, is trying to do the right thing. She’s trying to save the United States and the world from plunging into a terrible war, and her husband, who’s gotten a taste of power, thinks he’s too important to listen to her—he’d rather be in power. Now, I’m simplifying it; I’m oversimplifying it. But we see this in real life as Iran is getting away with really systematic, brutal anti-female and anti-male human rights abuses.

They are the world’s foremost state sponsor of terrorism. They kidnap women off the street who aren’t covered up enough—which means completely covered up—and are basically taking them to jail and gang-raping them, to the point where the women are begging for pills so that they don’t get pregnant. This happens all the time in Iran.

They just kill people like it’s nothing. Today, at 10 a.m.—in two hours—the Western democracies of the world plan to elect them to the UN General Assembly Committee that manages gender equality. Gender equality, terrorism, disarmament… is this a joke? Is this a joke?

Maybe I have no power over anything. Maybe my voice doesn’t matter, but I think a lot of voices raised in unison sure as heck do make a difference. And as we saw in Philadelphia when they tried to run the Jews out of town under the guise of pro-Palestinian support, a lot of people showed up to say, “Jew hate has no place here.”

Well, now we are talking about an enormous country. We’re not just talking about Jewish people. Please make your voice heard. I’m speaking in my own capacity, not on behalf of anyone. I’m not paid to tweet. This is an egregious, egregious sin about to happen.