Trump, Incels Pickled in Misogyny, Emboldened 'Your Body, My Choice' Crowd, Red Wave Misogyny

- 'Trump Incels Pickled in Misogyny and the Emboldened Your Body My Choice Crowd,' Daily Kos, Nov. 9, 2024. Ed. IMAGE: A 10-panel comic about street harassment of women.
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Within hours of Donald Trump defeating Kamala Harris, the phrase “Your body, my choice,” began reverberating around social media. According to The Guardian’s Arwa Mahdawi, “social media [saw] a major spike in gleeful misogyny” (https://amp.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/09/trump-your-body-my-choice).

On Tuesday night, Nick Fuentes, an influential white supremacist, tweeted: “Your body, my choice. Forever.” In a post-election live stream, Fuentes said things like: “We control your bodies. Guess what, guys win again, okay. Men win again … There will never ever be a female President. It’s over. Glass ceiling? It’s a ceiling made of fucking bricks.”

According to Mahdawi, Fuentes’ comments were only the tip of an iceberg of red wave misogyny. “Young men are now starting to comment ‘your body, my choice’ & ‘we own your bodies now’ on TikTok videos posted by women. In an analysis published Nov. 8, the Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), a think tank focused on extremism, found ‘a 4,600% increase in mentions of the terms ‘your body, my choice’ and ‘get back in the kitchen’ on X“ (https://www.isdglobal.org/digital_dispatches/your-body-my-choice-hate-and-harassment-towards-women-spreads-online/).

While misogyny is nothing new in American life, and is especially vigorous on social media platforms, the election of Trump has brought it further out into the open. Tracking narratives targeting women across X (formerly Twitter), TikTok, Facebook and Reddit in the few days since the election ISD found “the use of derogatory and misogynistic language … already rife among well-noted manosphere and extremist communities on these platforms,” had already picked up steam. ISD also observed “reports of these narratives being used to harass women offline, particularly on high school and college campuses.”...
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/11/9/2284810/-Trump-Incels-Pickled-in-Misogyny-and-the-Emboldened-Your-Body-My-Choice-Crowd