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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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[-] Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz 135 points 1 month ago

This started on Wednesday, almost immediately after Trump's victory was announced. By Friday it was already being reported in grade schools because asshole parents enjoy raising asshole sons, and Trump tells people that it's ok to be the absolute worst human being they can be.

I have a friend who is a hard Republican. We generally don't talk politics, but after this started last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women and POC (and the whole "illegals took my job and healthcare") so I finally had to call him out. His response was basically that he wasn't aware of any increased discrimination happening against women, therefore he didn't believe it was happening. I've known the guy for 40 years but this may be the thing that breaks our friendship. He claims to be an advocate for people's rights yet he is painfully unaware of the world around him.

[-] Gormadt 108 points 1 month ago

Republican

advocate for people's rights

You really can't be both at the same time.

After this election I've had to cut a bunch of people out of my life, even relatives. A lot of them saying such wonderful things as "trump's just saying things, he doesn't actually mean anything he's saying." And then they'd get defensive when I'd ask them why they votes for him then if he doesn't mean anything he says.

It's really hard to cut people out of your life but afterwards it's amazing realizing that you don't need to tip toe around things that may be vaguely political (or explicitly) anymore to not start an argument.

[-] Twitches@lemm.ee 30 points 1 month ago

People that vote for the violence against the people I love have no place in my life no matter who that person is.

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[-] JackFrostNCola@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

last week he was posting things online being offensive towards women

he wasn't aware of any increased discrimination happening against women

Umm...

Perhaps he has always posted that much misogynistic stuff so technically it isn't an increase?

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[-] aesthelete@lemmy.world 85 points 1 month ago
[-] nomous@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

That already happened to like 90% of us thanks to the same cultists.

[-] Vanth@reddthat.com 31 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'd love to see a real effort to stop genital mutilation of all babies. When the most visible time men speak up about it though is when they insert themselves into a conversation about women, it does not build sympathy for the issue.

I mean this sincerely. If you are at all serious about stopping the genital mutilation of babies, I suggest you rethink your strategy.

[-] Ensign_Crab@lemmy.world 24 points 1 month ago

Dude. I think circumcision is barbaric too, but there's a fucking time.

[-] captainlezbian@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Oh, then these misogynists need to watch their words and actions lest they lose even more. Eunuchs can’t forcibly impregnate anyone.

(For clarification I am very anti infant circumcision, everyone’s body their own choices)

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

Your rectum, my steel toe. Your eye socket, my bat... My choices for their bodies are endless!

I remember reading some headline that reads:

"alt-right women frustrated at alt-right men about their misogyny. seeks change within the movement"

or something like that.

Leopard. Face. Etc...

[-] tootoughtoremember@lemmy.world 8 points 1 month ago

Was it this one, from 2017?

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 78 points 1 month ago

woah, what the fuck americans?

[-] schizo@forum.uncomfortable.business 78 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

The really gross part is this is firmly not just Americans being stupid this time, and has somehow become The Thing To Say Online for the whole damn planet full of incel types.

[-] latenightnoir@lemmy.world 36 points 1 month ago

It's the 'boiling over' part. Seems to be ramping up, and we're sure to see a lot more of this coming.

There are, indeed, a lot of foreign Trumpites, this is not just on America.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 35 points 1 month ago

Yeah it's fucking disgusting. Do they not have a mother?!

[-] Boddhisatva@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

Not one they love or, I imagine, that loves them.

[-] Eldritch@lemmy.world 42 points 1 month ago

Who did you think we were? This is who we've always been. They're just getting comfortable taking the mask off again. Trust me, my grandmother and other family were put through the racist indian boarding schools. Common throughout the US and Canada. You know, the ones they keep finding mass graves on. The more things change, the more they stay the same. Just more subtle, less in your face.

Most people thought are too distracted with bread and circuses to care however.

[-] DmMacniel@feddit.org 17 points 1 month ago

execuse me for a sec, for I gotta puke.

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 35 points 1 month ago

The lizard brains always existed. Inbred, maladjusted, loud angry hateful fucks. We used to be able to suppress them. We ceded the helm of this nation to a bunch of corporations and their puppets in congress. We've been trying like hell to fight this multi front battle and are just taking Ls across the board.

We are burning books. Banning knowledge.

We are entering an environment where many do not have the luxury of having an opinion.

Speaking for all of those who were still trying: We're sorry. We're still here. We still care. But we're fighting a losing battle.

Speaking for myself... I'm fucking tired man. I'm not the only one. People I've spoken to all are effectively the same: resigned to what comes next. There isn't enough unity in this mess to right the ship. That unity will come with desperation... and we're not there yet. 4-6 years. Maybe then. It's got to get a lot worse before we unify over the collective mess we're all stuck in.

[-] Xanthobilly@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

I think some of this is being amplified by America’s enemies to drive division.

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

You are 100% correct. The problem is most of the public has lost the ability to discern the difference between truth and fiction. Not their fault specifically: most of even the most technically literate would struggle to fact check what our ~~news~~ media and feeds dump on us.

[-] wax@feddit.nu 5 points 1 month ago

That's why the media should be held accountable for what they say. Which I suppose would be the case if it wasn't for the loophole of disguising news as entertainment.

[-] lolrightythen@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

It was always there - we merely lost the fight on making it shameful to say in public.

[-] aceshigh@lemmy.world 58 points 1 month ago

I’ve started getting cat called at night while walking my dog. I live in a red area and I dress crappy and I’m middle aged. Today I decided to change my walking schedule and location.

[-] cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 6 points 1 month ago

This is sad to read. I'm sorry 😔.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 50 points 1 month ago

My daughters have to live in this shit hole now. I am both angry and sad that it appears we are moving backwards.

I will fucking end someone if I hear them say this or anything like it to my daughter.

[-] Apollonius_Cone@lemmy.world 17 points 1 month ago

I never understood since women could vote that there isn't a woman's political party or movement.

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

Because our democracy is stale

[-] Someonelol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 5 points 1 month ago

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

[-] threeganzi@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 month ago

Because the first-past-the-post system makes it very unlikely for more parties to emerge.

[-] hornedfiend@sopuli.xyz 40 points 1 month ago

My brain is always struggling with upping a post,when the context is so vile. I just don't understand how could this kind of angry POS people exist and the education their parents are giving them.

[-] Brylant@discuss.online 13 points 1 month ago

They don't give any education. That's it. That's the problem. Parents don't talk with kids and/or assume that kid will raise itself if it gets enough freedom, exact opposite happens in 90% of cases. You will understand the problem even more when you remember how many kids are bullied in school and growing frustration is a consequence.

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[-] cranakis@reddthat.com 40 points 1 month ago

.... platforms like X, TikTok, Facebook, and Reddit.

What are four platforms I will never use again Alex?

[-] yggstyle@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago

And while you'd be right to do so- make no mistake that there are posts on every social media platform with the same exact goal in mind. This one is no different.

We are entering into an era informational noise. The signal is still there but it is fucking faint in the storm of misinformation and ai/seo bullshit it is being transmitted into.

[-] masquenox@lemmy.world 37 points 1 month ago

Th 4B movement isn't a political statement. At this point, it's simply self-defense.

[-] Doomsider@lemmy.world 26 points 1 month ago

We have reached a great filter for society. If you are a woman and care about your rights you just need to know how a man voted to determine their value. You gotta dump if they voted for Trump.

[-] nomous@lemmy.world 5 points 1 month ago

I legitimately know a woman who's divorcing her husband, finding out he was a Trump supporter was the final straw. They've been in a rough spot for the last year or so, he doesn't cook/clean at all.

She was going to leave him a year ago but tried to make it work, finding out he was a secret Trumper sealed the deal for her.

[-] Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.world 6 points 1 month ago

Make it self-defencier and get a concealed carry license. Your body my choice is a rape threat.

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[-] VerbFlow@lemmy.world 30 points 1 month ago

They include the phrase being directed at them within schools or chanted by young boys in classes.

Young boys are following the misogynist Pied Piper and all the parents are just letting it happen. FFS

[-] GhiLA@sh.itjust.works 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

2024

The last year voicechat was enabled on my copy of Team Fortress 2.

you don't wanna know

[-] ThermonuclearCactus 6 points 1 month ago

Yeah, due to the nonexistant moderation TF2 voice chat tends to be the most intolerant thing I've ever heard in my life.

[-] Spacehooks@reddthat.com 24 points 1 month ago

I really hope to see more women buying weapons to defend themselves. Don't be defenseless ladies.

[-] ChronosTriggerWarning@lemmy.world 22 points 1 month ago

I really, REALLY hope i hear someone say this around me. I'm still trying to decide what choices i will unleash on their body....

[-] Gutek8134@lemmy.world 16 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Now let's all make sure it won't escalate to the point of current South Korea

Edit: I have no idea how did my autocorrect change of to I'd

Relevant videos by Moon Channel (warning: LONG):

[-] M600@lemmy.world 9 points 1 month ago
[-] shani66@ani.social 26 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Without even clicking the links; they are videos about the insane sexism and fragile masculinity in South Korea.

Edit: i was right! Specifically they are about how god damned pathetic Korean men are. They can't even see a self insert male protagonist in a phone game without screaming that they are being cucked. They make our incels look like the picture of healthy masculinity.

[-] Free_Opinions@feddit.uk 5 points 1 month ago

What ever gets a reaction from the opposition I guess

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