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A new report from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD) has found that digital hate and harassment against women rose rapidly after the U.S. presidential election. Sexist phrases like “repeal the 19th [Amendment]” and “get back to the kitchen” surged on platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook, and Reddit following President Donald Trump’s victory over Vice President Kamala Harris. Many of the most frequent comments involve calls for a decrease in women’s rights, while others have explicitly threatened women with sexual assault and harassment. Mentions of the statement “Your body, my choice”—a direct response to the reproductive justice movement’s slogan, “my body, my choice”—grew by over 4600 percent on X. The phrase also appears to have grown in popularity offline, with parents and students reporting groups of boys chanting it to girls in schools. One parent commented online, “Today my daughter was told three separate times on campus ‘your body, MY choice.’ The third group of boys told her to ‘sleep with one eye open tonight.’”

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[-] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 33 points 1 week ago

There isn't a workers' party, either. The US is one of the few industrialized nations that doesn't have one.

[-] Corkyskog@sh.itjust.works 15 points 1 week ago

Because our democracy is stale

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 6 days ago

It's as stale as our collective taste for it apparently. We'd have had pro reform politicians elected to power otherwise.

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