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Summary

Donald Trump’s re-election has fueled a surge in misogynistic, homophobic, and racist rhetoric among young men, reportedly emboldened by the president-elect’s history of inflammatory remarks about women.

In schools, boys have been caught using phrases like “your body, my choice” against female peers, prompting districts like Minnesota’s Hopkins Public Schools to issue warnings to parents about harassment.

The impact extends beyond schools, with activists on Texas State University’s campus displaying signs asserting that “women are property.”

This hostile climate has left many women feeling unsafe as a new far-right administration takes power.

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[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 65 points 3 days ago (2 children)

The proper response to "your body, my choice" is "your nuts, my knee."

[–] psvrh@lemmy.ca 48 points 2 days ago (1 children)

The correct response is "If I'm going to jail because abortion is murder, I may as well kill my rapist"

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 13 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Yes, but that's far less pithy.

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[–] Sam_Bass@lemmy.world 12 points 2 days ago (1 children)

just tell them to remember Lorena

[–] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

We're talking kids threatening other kids here. Lorena Bobbitt will mean nothing to them. A knee to the nuts, on the other hand...

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[–] nifty@lemmy.world 31 points 2 days ago

Tbh, this is all a fucking distraction from the class war that the oligarchs are winning without competition. And what a distraction it is! The cure to all these ills is higher taxes on the wealthy, but I don’t think any of those reforms are going to be remotely possible now lol

[–] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 38 points 3 days ago (7 children)

At least all these undatable men are outing themselves so publicly.

Start making a list ladies!

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[–] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 33 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Isn't this kind of shit that you guys have the 2nd amendment for?

[–] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 32 points 3 days ago (2 children)

women shouldn't need to kill people in order to live in the US. And their assailants almost certainly also have access to firearms because, the US (either legally or in violation of red flags etc).

people shouldn't need to kill just to go about their fucking lives.

[–] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 8 points 3 days ago

Shouldn't? Shouldn't.

Does, tho.

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

people shouldn't need to kill just to go about their fucking lives.

This has been a sad necessity for most of our species' existence. Recent history is the most "civilized" we've ever been.

[–] graff@lemm.ee 5 points 3 days ago (1 children)

Ideally we move forward not backwards :(

[–] NeilBru@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago

If such a metric (being "civilized") could be graphed, I'd imagine it would be an oscillating sin wave on a slight upward trajectory.

[–] HawlSera@lemm.ee 7 points 3 days ago (2 children)

I see this as a net positive at the end of the day. Yeah it's fucked up, but the fascists have already been given enough rope to hang themselves.

There's no anonymity on the internet anymore, you pull this shit and it kinda ruins your life.

Sometimes the trash really does take itself out.

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[–] xorollo@leminal.space 8 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago)
  • Your body, my choice
  • Women are my property
  • Soylent green is peep...
[–] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 272 points 3 days ago (24 children)

Remember that 53% of white women voted for this.

They voted for them and all women to be considered property.

[–] bungalowtill@lemmy.dbzer0.com -1 points 2 days ago

Where is oversimplification going to lead us one day?

Oh, it’s 2024, never mind then

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[–] neoman4426@fedia.io 143 points 3 days ago

Wow, the guy who bragged about how he sexually assaults anyone he finds attractive, talked about how he had the same "on the younger side" tastes as his best friend Jeff, talked about how he liked hosting beauty pageants because it gave him an excuse to walk in on girls while they were changing, etc emboldened other people to act the same way? Utter shock. This could never have been anticipated

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 105 points 4 days ago (19 children)

Bruh, I hate this timeline.

I feel like I accidentally triggered some portal and walked into a TV show / movie.

Nothing feels real anymore.

[–] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 35 points 3 days ago* (last edited 3 days ago) (13 children)

Tbh, for me, I’m realizing it’s triggering a sort of sea-change in terms of how I, as a citizen, want to interact with American society.

Laws, ethics, human dignity and empathy clearly aren’t important to people here. Money and power are. This is fully incongruent with my personal beliefs in a variety of fundamental ways. I’ve tried to aim my career at areas that are going to help better society - that’s a big part of why I work at an oncology-focused biotech now. But like… I’m faced with the realization that this country just doesn’t share my values, and doesn’t actually care that I willingly take markedly less compensation than, say, working at Meta, and it’s primarily because I want to make the world a better place.

I admit it’s starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I don’t think the world is going to become a better place in my lifetime. It’s going to get a lot worse in a lot of ways. My initial reaction was to begin taking steps to just fully fuck off from this country, and find someplace else with a society that hasn’t fully eaten itself. Try to keep my sanity and ethics in one piece by finding a new society to call home that’s not America.

But I ALSO have begun to realize in the last couple days that there’s another darker path I could take that denys the society I’ve honestly come to resent pretty strongly the my true capabilities and abusive consumption of my efforts: Malicious compliance. I could just fully jettison my ethical guidelines and engineering principles and simply min/max the absolute fuck out of comp and just retire early. Work for Meta or OpenAI or some health insurance company or whatever the fuck is the absolute most lucrative job I can find and just fully shoot for leadership metrics, not really fucking caring about the toxicity of the management class, the morale or well being of my team, the impact my work has on society, the quality, reliability, and integrity of the code I ship, or any of that ivory tower crap I’ve previously held as crucial elements to my profession. Stop trying to move the needle in the right direction. All gas, no brakes. If this country is determined to not give a fuck, why should I? Why shouldn’t I try to get to a place in my career where I can just retire, or do whatever I want without worrying too much about the personal consequences, because I can just fuck off at my own discretion due to money?

And the second, darker option has the added benefit that I wouldn’t have to essentially abandon my family here, who are definitely not considering moving away as seriously as I am. My parents are both not in the best of health; maybe I should try to at least spend some more time closer to them before I just fuckin leave - or at least, as long as I can stand it here before the “fuck off and leave” route is truly the only viable option.

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[–] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 102 points 3 days ago (4 children)

Anybody who's surprised should take a deep look in the mirror. You bitches elected a literal rapist into the white house. This is the "great" leader republicans rally behind!

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