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"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online (www.isdglobal.org)
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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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[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

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.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 51 minutes ago

when the most visible time men speak up about it is when they insert themselves into a conversation about women.

That's not true, its just the only time you notice. It was a completely relevant to the comment. Do you really think you'd respond like this if a women replied with a relevant thing that happens to them? You could have just agreed that it's crazy how far religious zealotry.