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Following Donald Trump’s election victory, women are experiencing a surge in misogynistic harassment online, with phrases like “your body, my choice” trending as men taunt women about reproductive rights.

The phrase, co-opted from feminist slogans, reflects heightened hostility, with reports of threats on platforms like TikTok and X/Twitter.

This backlash arises as Trump’s administration, alongside VP-elect JD Vance, raises concerns about potential federal restrictions on abortion.

Even without a federal ban, existing state laws have already limited access to reproductive care, contraception, and increased maternal health risks.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Fuck my own mom said Kamala slept her way to the top today. We're done for awhile.

I don't even know yet how to parse the sheer lack of moral focus from the woman that raised me. Like it really fucks me up.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Same here. My Mom refused to vote for Trump but was unhappy about her vote for Harris because

  • Harris slept her way to the top
  • is not black
  • was violently Antichristmas one year, then all festive the next.

I don’t know where to even begin, but fact checking one of her claims said that it was one persons Facebook post who never responded when asked for sources or evidence

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Her father is black Jamaican. What did your mom mean by 'not black'? Was your mom being a racist because Kamala's mother is Indian?

[–] [email protected] 7 points 59 minutes ago (1 children)

"You can't be two minorities! That's not fair!" - Wine moms, probably

[–] [email protected] 7 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

That sucks. If you want an adoptive mom, I have lots of kids, what's one more?

Also this 53% number is fucking with me. I know so many white women and only one (70 years old) would vote for trump.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 2 hours ago (1 children)

Appreciate it I'll be good. Things will settle.

I just hope she can reflect on what I said and why it bothers me.

I think I'll pass time by looking into helping others too though. Definitely be a better outlet for me than trying to waste time convincing Trump supporters of anything.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

Not disagreeing and I like that approach. I do want to say, though, that I've committed myself to keeping track of some of the egregious stuff that's going to come and addressing it with the people in my life who voted for Trump and did not properly know / accept what that entailed.

To bring them back, I think we have to find (effective) ways to show them bad things they did not want to happen, that they helped enable, as they occur. It's tough because I don't want to turn every interaction into political badgering (and I won't), but there's no chance I can stay quiet as the great shitshow unfolds, either.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah I think about how to resolve the issue but for now I think a bit of silence and me planning to move to a blue state are going to drive home the point as well.

It's not my point to manipulate people into agreeing with my side but like they HAVE to at least contend with reality and get back to some form of adult discourse.

[–] [email protected] 25 points 2 hours ago (3 children)

Y'all can thank 53% of white women for that btw.

[–] [email protected] 14 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

As a 50 year old white woman, I am just afraid that a man will beat me in high school track. That's the real misogyny.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 53 minutes ago

The only political ad I experienced this year was one saying the Democratic Senate candidate would let boys play in girl's sports. It was horribly transphobic, even ending in a joke about genitalia, but I can't help but think it had an effect on the outcome amongst all the women who aren't smart enough to pair their phone to their car and think NPR uses big words.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

white women really need to get their shit together. downright embarrassing

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 hour ago

I've never been so proud to be part of the 47% of anything.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 3 hours ago

Said a different way:

"In Trump's America, rapists get to choose their baby's mama"

If that's horrific to you too, sorry. See you at the support meeting later where we will be taking money to help people and companies relo to CO or NY where rights are temporarily enshrined regionally where even reinstating "Chevron" should preserve the for a while.

If people who've terminated a pregnancy in NYC go to FL, or even get on a long domestic flight, are they at risk of arrest when they enter or pass through the confederate states?

[–] [email protected] 13 points 3 hours ago (1 children)

Hat pins about to come back into fashion.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 hour ago

Pretty sure they were used in self-defense in a more dangerous era. Might be an urban legend though, I never verified.

[–] shortwavesurfer 19 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

Getting an abortion up to 13 weeks is totally possible using the following method.

https://primal.net/e/note1f8yfps35lnzcmu9f8thhvpkprlag70gemhn6krv9l0e5w55tjv7sr06lr3

[–] [email protected] 4 points 2 hours ago (2 children)

Looks like that documentation no longer is hosted. Those videos were inspiring, though.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 hour ago (1 children)

The ingredients are
miso
pros
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and
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clear
but the proportions and source for the first ingredient are not specified

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 hour ago

Yeah, that's mainly what I was wondering about. I'll have to look into it via a search engine after work. Thanks for listing them!

[–] shortwavesurfer 5 points 2 hours ago

Damn, i didnt realize the documentation wasnt there.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 4 hours ago

I am so surprised. Who could have possibly foreseen that the party of grab em by the pussy, whether women like it or not, and project 2025 would be hostile and antagonistic towards women.

Absolutely shocked and flabbergasted.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 4 hours ago

I play counter strike with my partner. She usually gets plenty of hate, but the days after the election have been way worse.

[–] [email protected] 105 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago) (1 children)

Fits in nicely with the recent article about conservative men having trouble dating. Maybe don't antagonize women?

[–] [email protected] 11 points 3 hours ago

Sounds like somebody hasn't heard of flirting technique "neggingmaxxing". /s

I completely just made that up

[–] [email protected] 4 points 3 hours ago

I fear that online misogyny was going to go up in general. Hell, would probably be worse with a Harris victory given how well those fucks would handle a woman president.

[–] [email protected] 87 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

These people are so filled with fucking hate.

Like, seriously, no small wonder nobody actually wants to fuck you.

Yet conservative women always are so confused why their partners are such shitheads who don't treat them respectfully.

[–] [email protected] 49 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

America elected an Incel-in-Chief, so that's not really surprising.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 4 hours ago) (1 children)

The alternative was apparently not inspiring enough to vote for (/s). You know, someone who isn't that.

(I voted gladly for Harris)

[–] [email protected] 17 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Yes, because Americans are idiots who think that they have to vote for someone they like rather than STOP A FASCIST DICTATOR.

Jesus Christ.

Enjoy never having your vote count again.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

People at my spouse’s workplace were high-fiving each other on Wednesday. This country is just a goddamn middle school.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 4 hours ago

I've wanted to cry since Wednesday morning but it's just not coming out. I'm just too numb. If I was around people like that though, I might have been able to find somewhere to go cry.

[–] [email protected] 44 points 6 hours ago

why do people spend so much time being awful

I didn't think there was a most pathetic way to out yourself as a rapist

[–] [email protected] 15 points 6 hours ago

Dumb fucks being themselves: I just don't know why women don't like me.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 5 hours ago

It's a darth vader cosplay fetish. They wanna be a cool bad guy.

Except just the shitty parts, minus the cool costume, powers, or voice. Then they try to convince themselves it's working with seven laughing-too-hard emojis.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

A campaign run by trolls wasn't just gonna stop trolling once they win. Of course they were gonna double down with being awful people.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 6 hours ago

Sore winners? What a surprise.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

The fact these losers (misogynists) don’t even have shame in what they’re saying and are not afraid of the repercussions, this could have on their personal/work lives, by saying all this fucked up shit, just makes it even awful tbh. There is really no justice.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 6 hours ago (6 children)

Im sure some of this is real. But i wonder how much of this is actually foreign state actors. We have a bunch of countries working overtime trying to destabilize the U.S. right now.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 2 hours ago

I’m definitely still somewhat in denial, starting from about 2015. Most of this can’t be real, right? My fellow Americans can’t really want this, can they? I understand Trump likes attention and running a sweet scam, but he can’t actually want to be president, right?

[–] [email protected] 21 points 5 hours ago

Makes no difference to the women being targeted, and is still the direct result of a Trump win. Give the real magas 30 more seconds to realize they've just witnessed the birth of Let's Go Brandon 2.0 and they'll dwarf the number of state actors anyhow.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

I think we should absolutely consider foreign actors as the likely seed for some of these flashy, rage-bait stories. Russia's primary goal since 2015 has been to keep us from trusting one another, and I expect them to ramp up messaging to leftist groups over the next few months. We're uncertain, isolated, and afraid, and that makes us likely targets for cultural wedge disinformation.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 5 hours ago

Points from Foundations for Geopolitics (basically the current russian playbook)

In the Americas, United States, and Canada:

Russia should use its special services within the borders of the United States and Canada to fuel instability and separatism against neoliberal globalist Western hegemony, such as, for instance, provoke "Afro-American racists" to create severe backlash against the rotten political state of affairs in the current present-day system of the United States and Canada. Russia should "introduce geopolitical disorder into internal American activity, encouraging all kinds of separatism and ethnic, social, and racial conflicts, actively supporting all dissident movements – extremist, racist, and sectarian groups, thus destabilizing internal political processes in the U.S. It would also make sense simultaneously to support isolationist tendencies in American politics".[9]
The Eurasian Project could be expanded to Central and South America.[9]
[–] xenspidey 3 points 6 hours ago

At least 90% is my guess. MANY foreign countries are trying very hard to ensure we tear ourselves apart from the inside

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[–] [email protected] 1 points 4 hours ago

I'm so happy I switched to an instance that blocks grad, ml and hex, I can't imagine the shitshow it should be for those that still want to tolerate at least hex.

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