Following the US presidential election, online hate speech and harassment toward women surged, with some users calling to limit women’s rights.

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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    • yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
      211·
      9 hours 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.

      • yggstyle@lemmy.worldEnglish
        8·
        8 hours 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.nuEnglish
          1·
          1 hour 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.

    • schizo@forum.uncomfortable.businessEnglish
      661·
      14 hours 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.worldEnglish
        27·
        14 hours 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.

    • Eldritch@lemmy.worldEnglish
      37·
      14 hours 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.

      • Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.worldEnglish
        6·
        8 hours ago

        Na, it will only take two years.

        Trump tariffs will crater the economy in a year.

        Massive round ups of migrants both legal and illegal. Killing farming and destroying families.

        Musk well being Musk and chopping the Federal Budget,

        50,000 vetted loyal Trumpists ready to take over the Federal government.

        Matt Gates in charge of the Dept of Justice leading Trumps Vengence tour.

        RFK Jr starts peddling raw milk and makes vaccines illegal.

        It’s gonna be fucking LIT. I can’t wait to tell my half wit Dominican coworker who voted for Trump “I told you so” when their family gets deported. I can’t wait to tell my idiot sister in laws who voted for Trump, I told you so when the government programs including Obama Care get wrecked.

        Of course I’m going to suffer too, I’m stocking up on N1 masks, food, toilet paper and bullets… but holy shit I’m going to be saying I told you so in the nastiest most demeaning way possible for the rest of my days.

        • shani66@ani.socialEnglish
          2·
          7 hours ago

          It’ll be our one solace going forward. I’m pretty cishet passing, but I’m still considering getting a passport and trying to escape somewhere else. I don’t really want to abandon any actual people left in this country, but I’m not entirely sure what i can even do, especially where I’m located in the country.