‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Trump victory
‘Your body, my choice’: Women report rise in online misogyny following Trump victory
‘The masks are fully off now,’ one person claimed
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.
For a lot of trump supporters, this is why they voted for him. He gave them a licence to be racist and sexist and bigoted, etc.
Al the things trump is, they are. And him being in office legitemises them. It makes them feel "heard" instead of "opressesed."
Granted (of course) hate speech and any form of misogyny or predjudice (all of the above) should be illegal. It should be "oppressed." But from their perspective, they aren't allowed to be what they are, and trump makes them feel like they can.
Its a devastating realisation that i came to whilst watching those trump rally videos where the comedians go and interview the attendees with the aim being ro let them mock themselves by being caught out in a web of contradiction.
When the interviewers say biden did x y z terrible things and the trump simps say "yeah because biden is terrible and an awful person and should be in jail" but then they pull the rug and say, "sorry, i read the wrong but, that was trump who did those things"
When faced with the fact that trump is the one who did all the awful things they suddely switch over like they are bipolar and say, oh well trump is perfect so i dont care that he did those things. Or trump had a reason that made it ok. Or oh, i did t know he did that, but im still gonna vote for him.
Honestly, avoiding sex seems like a good strategy. Even as a man, I'd fucking hate impregnating someone just to have them die in my arms in a fucking parking lot. Fuck MAGA! You people are the death of America!
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.
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
I expect a lot of criminals won't even be charged with the crimes they openly commit. They are the part of the in group to which laws will not apply.
I've seen it already too. Was playing overwatch and the enemy tank was talking shit to our tank and he responded with "I'm glad trump won so someone will rape mercy." Was quite jarring tbh
And I hope you reported it
Yeah whole team did
One of my friends had some rough experiences in some communities after it. I'd have to dig up the screenshots but it was atrocious. She's not even American but she flat out said it made her want to take a break from online for a while.
I've never seen anything like it considering the game we play together tends to have a more progressive and welcoming community that lashes out against open misconduct like that.
anybody ever notice how republicans talk about all the hope and positivity at trump rallies?
Curious right?
The answer is simple, it's the only place they feel those two emotions, they literally do not experience it anywhere else, it's a cult.
If the pastor farts, his congregation shits.
Speaking as a Canadian where women have full bodily autonomy perhaps American women would like to vacation in Canada?
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.
A whole generation of the kid who stands behind the other kid and says, "YEAH!!!" after the fact and then shrinks away and cowers.
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...
Is anyone surprised?
Fits in nicely with the recent article about conservative men having trouble dating. Maybe don't antagonize women?
Sounds like somebody hasn't heard of flirting technique "neggingmaxxing". /s
I completely just made that up
These people are so filled with fucking hate.
Like, seriously, no small wonder nobody actually wants to fuck you.
Yet conservative women always are so confused why their partners are such shitheads who don't treat them respectfully.
Fuck my own mom said Kamala slept her way to the top today. We're done for awhile.
I don't even know yet how to parse the sheer lack of moral focus from the woman that raised me. Like it really fucks me up.
Woah, so let's just assume what she said is true. So in your mom's world the only way for a women to get to that level is to sleep her way to the top. That is pretty fucked up.
What is even more fucked up is living in that world she blames the women for it!? I can't even.
Even a precursory look at her record would show that is not even remotely true, but I digress. After all, we have a first lady (of the night) right now that actually did sleep her way to the top.
So I guess she has some reason to believe it happens. I just don't understand the hate. It is okay for this women to do it but not her, even if that is not what she did.
Perhaps the root of it is your mother is just racist. I think this really hits home for me as well. Growing up I believed my mother loved everyone being a self-proclaimed Jesus freak. Now that she is older she suddenly hates gays and loves Trump. It is hard to reconcile.
My dad went on a rant how Puerto Ricans are all lazy and just grift off the system to live off benefits. His only grandkids are born to a Puerto Rican, who passed the bar becoming a lawyer. (Prior to having kids with my only sibling)
Throw in that "no black people can raise kids", and it was enough for me to cut contact.
Yes she also uses the "she turned black" line as is if that shields Trump from his overt racism from that debacle. As if just accepting everything he says is fine means it's fine...
In real life she never acted like that. The more I think about it the more weirded out I get. I guess I didn't see it through my own numbness being it's just more common here.
you should tell your mom that shes a whore lmao.
Give her ass a reality check
Same here. My Mom refused to vote for Trump but was unhappy about her vote for Harris because
- Harris slept her way to the top
- is not black
- was violently Antichristmas one year, then all festive the next.
I don’t know where to even begin, but fact checking one of her claims said that it was one persons Facebook post who never responded when asked for sources or evidence
That sucks. If you want an adoptive mom, I have lots of kids, what's one more?
Also this 53% number is fucking with me. I know so many white women and only one (70 years old) would vote for trump.
Every white woman in-law I have voted for him. I hate them all.
America elected an Incel-in-Chief, so that's not really surprising.
The alternative was apparently not inspiring enough to vote for (/s). You know, someone who isn't that.
(I voted gladly for Harris)
why do people spend so much time being awful
I didn't think there was a most pathetic way to out yourself as a rapist
Y'all can thank 53% of white women for that btw.
As a 50 year old white woman, I am just afraid that a man will beat me in high school track. That's the real misogyny.
The only political ad I experienced this year was one saying the Democratic Senate candidate would let boys play in girl's sports. It was horribly transphobic, even ending in a joke about genitalia, but I can't help but think it had an effect on the outcome amongst all the women who aren't smart enough to pair their phone to their car and think NPR uses big words.
I've never been so proud to be part of the 47% of anything.
white women really need to get their shit together. downright embarrassing
Said a different way:
"In Trump's America, rapists get to choose their baby's mama"
If that's horrific to you too, sorry. See you at the support meeting later where we will be taking money to help people and companies relo to CO or NY where rights are temporarily enshrined regionally where even reinstating "Chevron" should preserve them for a while.
If people who've terminated a pregnancy in NYC go to FL, or even get on a long domestic flight, are they at risk of arrest when they enter or pass through the confederate states?
Hat pins about to come back into fashion.
Hm?
Pretty sure they were used in self-defense in a more dangerous era. Might be an urban legend though, I never verified.
Getting an abortion up to 13 weeks is totally possible using the following method.
https://primal.net/e/note1f8yfps35lnzcmu9f8thhvpkprlag70gemhn6krv9l0e5w55tjv7sr06lr3
how does anybody know if this isnt gonna kill somebody? or leave the mother / child disabled?
Because it uses already approved drugs for abortion. So it's not like you're taking some experimental medicine.
I am so surprised. Who could have possibly foreseen that the party of grab em by the pussy, whether women like it or not, and project 2025 would be hostile and antagonistic towards women.
Absolutely shocked and flabbergasted.
I play counter strike with my partner. She usually gets plenty of hate, but the days after the election have been way worse.
Dumb fucks being themselves: I just don't know why women don't like me.
Sore winners? What a surprise.
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.
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.
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.
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.
It's been increasing for a while now.
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.
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"?
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.
Makes no difference to the women being targeted, and is still the direct result of a Trump win. Give the real magas 30 more seconds to realize they've just witnessed the birth of Let's Go Brandon 2.0 and they'll dwarf the number of state actors anyhow.
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.
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]
At least 90% is my guess. MANY foreign countries are trying very hard to ensure we tear ourselves apart from the inside
I’m definitely still somewhat in denial, starting from about 2015. Most of this can’t be real, right? My fellow Americans can’t really want this, can they? I understand Trump likes attention and running a sweet scam, but he can’t actually want to be president, right?
I dont think he wanted to be president again. I thought he wanted to avoid a prison sentence honestly.
This and the "lefties" increasingly calling for another insurrection. Definitely a lot of foreign state actor influencing the emotion right now.
I haven't heard any left leaning people in real life calling for violence.