Sexist attacks on women surge on social media after Trump's win, report finds

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Source: NBC News

Nov. 12, 2024, 4:06 PM EST


A barrage of misogynistic comments have permeated social media since Donald Trump became the president-elect last week, according to research from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a London-based think tank.

“Your body, my choice” — a phrase popularized by white nationalist Nick Fuentes — became the reigning chant among men on the far right who commented on women’s posts across social media, especially those who expressed sorrow at the election results, the report found.

The phrase — a retaliatory play on “my body, my choice,” which for decades has been a rallying cry for advocates of reproductive rights — surged shortly after Fuentes posted on X on Election Day: “Your body, my choice. Forever.”

The phrase was mentioned thousands of times per day on various social platforms in the week after the election, peaking at more than 12,000 mentions Friday, according to the report, which was published Friday. The Institute for Strategic Dialogue found a 4,600% increase in mentions of the terms “your body, my choice” and “get back in the kitchen” on X in a 24-hour period late last week, the report said.

Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/sexist-attacks-women-surge-social-media-trumps-win-report-finds-rcna179688

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Link to REPORT - “Your body, my choice:” Hate and harassment towards women spreads online

[SunSeeker]

1. Yup. One of the reasons people are fleeing X to go to places like Bluesky. nt

[notroot]

2. Oh wow. Really? (Yawn.)

Who could have guessed?

[Karasu]

3. Yes, Republicans do that.

Once they successfully normalize some previously unthinkable thing, it becomes trendy before you know it.

[multigraincracker]

4. Best reply

Why do you have to be so mean?

[wnylib]

6. Or, "pathetic incel."

[ancianita]

5. Yep. When Rethugs run it, the MeanMen come out.

[bdamomma]

7. Let's

bring the 4B movement to those who believe this swill. Fuentes is a POS. He's disgusting. Women learn self defense and walk in groups.

[VanceFan]

11. New Nickname

Women (or men) should arrange for Fuentes to have a new nickname, "Dickless Nick" would be perfect.

[Katcat]

15. Just bought

Pepper spray

[bdamomma]

17. It's called

protection, do what you have to do. These fucking misogynistic white men who are so threatened by women going after women. Hmm.... just wait, women will cut you off. It's certainly not an honorable trait. And Nick Fuentes is no man.

(please note: not all men and especially not DU men)

[mopinko]

8. the trolls r trying to run good ppl off.

if it crashes and burns, something else will take it’s place.
but we play into their hands by abandoning the only arena we have.

[Icanthinkformyself]

9. It's too bad

that many of the the women who voted for the convicted felon, the Sarah Hucklebeast types, will not likely have to deal with the results of their vote, being as repulsive as they are.

[Chakaconcarne]

10. And so starts the next phase of Foreign meddling toward division

Supported by an army of bots.

[bdamomma]

12. Right wing propaganda

infecting their brains for years now, say enough times people believe it. Yes, that is taken out of the Russian playbook or any other fascist regime.

[PortTack]

13. Anyone still questioning why we lost?? Anyone

[MajorPayne]

14. Put your wallet where your morals are...

Fastest way to shut a religious, anti-abortion, individuals mouth, is to make them pay for all the children they want others to have and raise. Have a special box on our tax form, that if checked, the taxpayer must pay into a fund an amount, say $6500 a year to help support all the kids that women must carry to term.

Whenever an issue affects someone else. It’s too easy to make demands upon others, when the cost(s) doesn’t directly hit them. Make them all pay for their moralistic virtues.

[Biglinda 52]

16. How About....

"My Body, My Glock". Time to protect ourselves.

[GenThePerservering]

18. These baby-men

are drunk at their seeming victory - we have women senators, governors, representatives, etc. And red states wanting legal abortion. They'll sober up soon enough, particularly with plenty of push-back instead of just running away.

[Ursus Arctos]

19. But, but...

we have to understand their "epidemic of lonliness." The mystery of why many women are rejecting these men continues.