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‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Trump victory (www.independent.co.uk)

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Summary

Following Donald Trump’s election victory, women are experiencing a surge in misogynistic harassment online, with phrases like “your body, my choice” trending as men taunt women about reproductive rights.

The phrase, co-opted from feminist slogans, reflects heightened hostility, with reports of threats on platforms like TikTok and X/Twitter.

This backlash arises as Trump’s administration, alongside VP-elect JD Vance, raises concerns about potential federal restrictions on abortion.

Even without a federal ban, existing state laws have already limited access to reproductive care, contraception, and increased maternal health risks.

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[–] Mycatiskai@lemmy.ca 17 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Some other post had a comment (to paraphrase) for women the best choice to at least somewhat stay safer is: don't have sex with men, don't date men, don't have babies with men, don't get married. It was called the B4 movement.

As a man who sees how bad it is going to be for women in the USA for 4 years or longer, I can't disagree with the person. Though sexual assaults will go up as shitty rapists think they can't get away with what their president got away with.

[–] auzy@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago (1 children)

And they probably can get away with it, because if they claim radical lefties are lying, he'll pardon them

Expect a lot of criminals to get pardoned

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[–] Rapidcreek@lemmy.world 14 points 1 week ago

Sore winners? What a surprise.

[–] newthrowaway20@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago

A campaign run by trolls wasn't just gonna stop trolling once they win. Of course they were gonna double down with being awful people.

[–] jaggedrobotpubes@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago

It's a darth vader cosplay fetish. They wanna be a cool bad guy.

Except just the shitty parts, minus the cool costume, powers, or voice. Then they try to convince themselves it's working with seven laughing-too-hard emojis.

[–] iAvicenna@lemmy.world 12 points 6 days ago

If the pastor farts, his congregation shits.

[–] kirbowo808@kbin.melroy.org 12 points 1 week ago

The fact these losers (misogynists) don’t even have shame in what they’re saying and are not afraid of the repercussions, this could have on their personal/work lives, by saying all this fucked up shit, just makes it even awful tbh. There is really no justice.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 8 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I fear that online misogyny was going to go up in general. Hell, would probably be worse with a Harris victory given how well those fucks would handle a woman president.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 12 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Given that the Onion’s prediction of a shrieking, white-hot sphere of pure rage following Obama’s election came true, you’re absolutely spot on. No matter who won, we’d still have lost.

My wife and I agreed, after decades of being opposed to it, it’s time to get strapped. Tired of this shit.

[–] 21Cabbage@lemmynsfw.com 4 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I'm just glad I'm not in the Midwest anymore, sure things are going wonderfully over there.

[–] root_beer@midwest.social 7 points 1 week ago (4 children)

I was thinking recently that, if we have to stay here in the US, I would prefer that we move to Minnesota or Michigan than stay here in Ohio, as it seemed they had their shit together more so than we do, but the latter is certainly in question now. Hell, after last November’s referendum on reproductive rights, I was at least a little encouraged, but any faith I gained in people since then has rapidly eroded.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Yeah last year gave me hope that this year dashed

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[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago (1 children)

Dude, when I was a kid I moved from the midwest to the south.

It was like going from a decent, but backwards place, to living under the fucking Taliban.

I warned everyone to get out of the south while they could, but I know it's not always possible, I just hope most made it.

The South will NEVER forgive our unimaginable crime, we elected a BLACK MAN over them, that is an evil they can never get over, and they genuinely believe we did it just because we knew it was the thing they hated most.

[–] Baggins@feddit.uk 8 points 6 days ago (1 children)

I watched a Jamie Oliver series some years ago (when Obama was president) and Jamie was out overnight with some cowboys and cooking over a fire. They were chatting about governments or something and one of the guys said something like 'You Brits get a woman, and we get a n*****.' Cue Jamie's shocked face. Later on in his tent he was visibly upset. Think he regretted going on that trip.

[–] InverseParallax@lemmy.world 6 points 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago)

Am brown.

The south was intolerable, it's weird to see such naked racism in America.

But it's a fundamental part of their culture, it's why Obama was clearly a Muslim, because Christian means white to them.

I was born in New York, but the south was the only place where I wasn't an American to anyone there.

The problem is: most people never have to face the reality of the south, so it's easy to pretend it's just an exaggeration.

[–] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

Just peachy in Ohio. In other news I’m getting the hell out

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[–] RangerJosie@lemmy.world 7 points 6 days ago

I very much look forward to the increase in mortality rates among men. Married and otherwise.

Lots of Goodbye Earl energy flying around and I love it.

[–] Nougat@fedia.io 7 points 1 week ago

Someone explain to me how a federal abortion ban could be in any way different from a federal cannabis ban? What's stopping states from saying "We're not enforcing that federal law"?

[–] MapleEngineer@lemmy.world 5 points 6 days ago

Speaking as a Canadian where women have full bodily autonomy perhaps American women would like to vacation in Canada?

[–] NocturnalMorning@lemmy.world 4 points 1 week ago (7 children)

Im sure some of this is real. But i wonder how much of this is actually foreign state actors. We have a bunch of countries working overtime trying to destabilize the U.S. right now.

[–] Blackbeard@lemmy.world 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I think we should absolutely consider foreign actors as the likely seed for some of these flashy, rage-bait stories. Russia's primary goal since 2015 has been to keep us from trusting one another, and I expect them to ramp up messaging to leftist groups over the next few months. We're uncertain, isolated, and afraid, and that makes us likely targets for cultural wedge disinformation.

[–] masterofn001@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

Points from Foundations for Geopolitics (basically the current russian playbook)

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
The Eurasian Project could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]

[–] xenspidey@lemmy.zip 4 points 1 week ago

At least 90% is my guess. MANY foreign countries are trying very hard to ensure we tear ourselves apart from the inside

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[–] Snapz@lemmy.world 3 points 6 days ago

A whole generation of the kid who stands behind the other kid and says, "YEAH!!!" after the fact and then shrinks away and cowers.

[–] xorollo@leminal.space 2 points 6 days ago

I wrote a haiku on another similar article and I'm proud of it. I don't have a title yet. I'm not usually poetic. Here goes:

Your body, my choice
Women are my property
Soylent green is peep...

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