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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  • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
    915·
    5 days 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.

    • lightnsfw@reddthat.comEnglish
      92·
      4 days ago

      The issue at hand is body autonomy. Circumcision falls perfectly in line with that and it’s an experience men have that may give them some insight into how women are feeling. Why not tackle them at once (along with anything else that comes up regarding that issue). Making people stand in line to wait for everyone to get on board with their particular grievance is hardly productive.

    • Ensign_Crab@lemmy.worldEnglish
      123·
      4 days ago

      Read the fucking room. The story is about how hateful pieces of shit are gloating about women losing rights in the rapeyest way possible. Comparing it to how you’re sad that you don’t have a foreskin comes off as the whining it is.

      I think circumcision is barbaric and pointless, but no one is inclined to have sympathy for your cause in this context.

    • Vanth@reddthat.comEnglish
      36·
      4 days ago

      You could have just agreed that it’s crazy how far religious zealotry [has gone].

      And you could have followed this exact same advice.

      • Fizz@lemmy.nzEnglish
        5·
        4 days ago

        When people talk about joining the Fediverse one of the main reasons mentioned for not staying is that people will jump on them over a tiny mistake. That’s what I saw your comment to be.

        Telling people “don’t ever fucking mention another issue when a women is talking” is stupid. The more comments we get on lemmy the better. The more discussion the better. The medium allows discussion to fork without derailing anything. So if people want to respond to that comment and discuss then nothing is taken away from any of the other comments in this thread and people who don’t care can just minimize that comment and all the rest in that comment thread.

        • Goodmorningsunshine@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          3 days ago

          “When people talk about joining the Fediverse one of the main reasons mentioned for not staying is that people will jump on them over a tiny mistake”

          Eh, that happens plenty on reddit.