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"Your body, my choice:" Hate and harassment towards women spreads online (www.isdglobal.org)

submitted 6 days ago* (last edited 6 days ago) by Joker@sh.itjust.works to c/technology@lemmy.world

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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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[+] Letsdothis@lemmy.world -8 points 5 days ago (5 children)

This is a continuation of hype trying to stir up more anger. Please don't buy into this BS. Practically/virtually no one believes the phrase "your body, my choice." I'd say probably 0.0001 of the population actually believe that that crap.

Although, there are plenty of assholes who will parrot that phrase as satire just to get a rise out of people. Probably 0.01.

You probably won't ever get a chance to react to someone in person saying, "Your body, my choice."

Let's not give this group of haters a louder voice than they deserve, and let's focus on important things like love and tolerance.

[–] zarkanian@sh.itjust.works 26 points 5 days ago (1 children)

There are actual statistics in this article, unlike these which I think you made up.

You sound like those people saying that COVID was no big deal because "more people die in auto accidents". How many people have to be affected before you deem it newsworthy?

[–] Blazingtransfem98@discuss.online 1 points 2 days ago

Check their history, they seem like an alt-right troll

[–] LookBehindYouNowAndThen@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago* (last edited 4 days ago)

Although, there are plenty of assholes who will parrot that phrase as satire just to get a rise out of people. Probably 0.01.

In the words of Kurt Vonnegut: we are what we pretend to be.

[–] Joker@sh.itjust.works 17 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Did you read the article?

I am asking genuinely.

[–] GreenKnight23@lemmy.world 8 points 4 days ago

a lack of an answer tells me one of two things.

they have not read it
they cannot read

judging on their response (or lack therof), I'm going to guess they can't read.

[–] stephan262@lemmy.world 15 points 5 days ago (1 children)

How prevalent the use of the exact phrase 'Your body, my choice' is irrelevant when the intent behind it is so common in other espoused rhetoric. The fact is that too fucking many people are happy to tear up a woman's right to self determination and force women into situations that put their lives at risk. I don't think we can ignore any rhetoric that supports or gives cover to such attacks on a woman's autonomy.

At this point I would not be surprised if we started seeing feminist groups becoming armed and violent. And as much as I have a disdain for political violence, I don't think I could condemn them for doing so.

[–] Letsdothis@lemmy.world -3 points 3 days ago (1 children)

At this point I would not be surprised if we started seeing feminist groups becoming armed and violent. And as much as I have a disdain for political violence, I don't think I could condemn them for doing so.

This is crazy... misguided, hypocritical, extreme, and unsafe. Etc.

[–] octopus_ink@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 days ago

This is crazy… misguided, hypocritical, extreme, and unsafe. Etc.

Just like back alley abortions. Both easily avoided by respecting the bodily and reproductive autonomy of women.

[–] masquenox@lemmy.world 14 points 5 days ago

Practically/virtually no one believes the phrase “your body, my choice.”

It is "practically/virtually" the ideology of pro-rape right-wingers everywhere. Why the fuck do you think they spent so much effort to crush abortion rights?