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Summary

Donald Trump’s re-election has fueled a surge in misogynistic, homophobic, and racist rhetoric among young men, reportedly emboldened by the president-elect’s history of inflammatory remarks about women.

In schools, boys have been caught using phrases like “your body, my choice” against female peers, prompting districts like Minnesota’s Hopkins Public Schools to issue warnings to parents about harassment.

The impact extends beyond schools, with activists on Texas State University’s campus displaying signs asserting that “women are property.”

This hostile climate has left many women feeling unsafe as a new far-right administration takes power.

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[-] inclementimmigrant@lemmy.world 266 points 1 week ago

Remember that 53% of white women voted for this.

They voted for them and all women to be considered property.

[-] Mouselemming@sh.itjust.works 87 points 1 week ago

College-educated white women backed Harris. All college-educated groups did. Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable, and accessible to women with small children. Frankly we should anyway. We should also start helping girls that get pregnant in high school finish with their diploma so college will be an option in their future. Especially since more of them are going to be forced to carry the pregnancy to term.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 83 points 1 week ago

Maybe Democrats should work on making college more affordable

Why do you think the wingers reacted so much to having loan forgiveness? Anything that educates more people is something they fear. Having people not being saddled with crippling debts after school only sends a message to others that maybe education is a path for them. The wingers don't want an educated citizenry.

[-] AngryRobot@lemmy.world 23 points 1 week ago

No, the gop has weaponized anti-intelectualism. The reds won't vote for a candidate that wants to make college affordable.

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[-] allidoislietomyself@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

Unfortunately no one hates women more than other women.

[-] WoahWoah@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Article filled with examples of men expressing hatred and misogyny towards women

"Ayup, no one hates women more than other women!"

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[-] neoman4426@fedia.io 142 points 1 week ago

Wow, the guy who bragged about how he sexually assaults anyone he finds attractive, talked about how he had the same "on the younger side" tastes as his best friend Jeff, talked about how he liked hosting beauty pageants because it gave him an excuse to walk in on girls while they were changing, etc emboldened other people to act the same way? Utter shock. This could never have been anticipated

Bruh, I hate this timeline.

I feel like I accidentally triggered some portal and walked into a TV show / movie.

Nothing feels real anymore.

[-] foggy@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

It was December 21st 2012. The Mayans were right. A timeline ended and were falling into some clown mirror black hole ever since or something.

[-] kat_angstrom@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

I thought everything went crooked the day Harambe died

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[-] gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works 35 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Tbh, for me, I’m realizing it’s triggering a sort of sea-change in terms of how I, as a citizen, want to interact with American society.

Laws, ethics, human dignity and empathy clearly aren’t important to people here. Money and power are. This is fully incongruent with my personal beliefs in a variety of fundamental ways. I’ve tried to aim my career at areas that are going to help better society - that’s a big part of why I work at an oncology-focused biotech now. But like… I’m faced with the realization that this country just doesn’t share my values, and doesn’t actually care that I willingly take markedly less compensation than, say, working at Meta, and it’s primarily because I want to make the world a better place.

I admit it’s starting to feel like an abusive relationship. I don’t think the world is going to become a better place in my lifetime. It’s going to get a lot worse in a lot of ways. My initial reaction was to begin taking steps to just fully fuck off from this country, and find someplace else with a society that hasn’t fully eaten itself. Try to keep my sanity and ethics in one piece by finding a new society to call home that’s not America.

But I ALSO have begun to realize in the last couple days that there’s another darker path I could take that denys the society I’ve honestly come to resent pretty strongly the my true capabilities and abusive consumption of my efforts: Malicious compliance. I could just fully jettison my ethical guidelines and engineering principles and simply min/max the absolute fuck out of comp and just retire early. Work for Meta or OpenAI or some health insurance company or whatever the fuck is the absolute most lucrative job I can find and just fully shoot for leadership metrics, not really fucking caring about the toxicity of the management class, the morale or well being of my team, the impact my work has on society, the quality, reliability, and integrity of the code I ship, or any of that ivory tower crap I’ve previously held as crucial elements to my profession. Stop trying to move the needle in the right direction. All gas, no brakes. If this country is determined to not give a fuck, why should I? Why shouldn’t I try to get to a place in my career where I can just retire, or do whatever I want without worrying too much about the personal consequences, because I can just fuck off at my own discretion due to money?

And the second, darker option has the added benefit that I wouldn’t have to essentially abandon my family here, who are definitely not considering moving away as seriously as I am. My parents are both not in the best of health; maybe I should try to at least spend some more time closer to them before I just fuckin leave - or at least, as long as I can stand it here before the “fuck off and leave” route is truly the only viable option.

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[-] LANIK2000@lemmy.world 96 points 1 week ago

Anybody who's surprised should take a deep look in the mirror. You bitches elected a literal rapist into the white house. This is the "great" leader republicans rally behind!

[-] emax_gomax@lemmy.world 34 points 1 week ago

Rapist, terrorist, moron. The trifecta. We're literally living in the worst timeline :/.

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[-] mhague@lemmy.world 88 points 1 week ago

Ah yes, economic anxiety. That's why racism and misogyny.

[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

But they felt poor! That's what is making them so rapey and weird! I mean, eggs cost what, $100 each now?

The thing is: Biden and the Democrat Party made them this way!

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 74 points 1 week ago

Maga is not sending their best. They're bringing crime. They're rapists.

[-] chiliedogg@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago

They're absolutely sending their best.

The problem is what they're best at is being Maga assholes.

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[-] breadsmasher@lemmy.world 73 points 1 week ago

the america the majority of americans want. sickening

[-] ziggurat@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago

Now we have both the middle east and the middle west

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 63 points 1 week ago

The proper response to "your body, my choice" is "your nuts, my knee."

[-] psvrh@lemmy.ca 47 points 1 week ago

The correct response is "If I'm going to jail because abortion is murder, I may as well kill my rapist"

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[-] ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca 57 points 1 week ago

Hmm maybe enabling these people was a bad idea

20% of Americans voted for him because he told them it's ok to be a rapist.

Chat, are we fucked?

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[-] 2ugly2live@lemmy.world 55 points 1 week ago

Calm down, everyone. Remember, both sides are the same. Harris would have been absolutely no different.

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[-] CharlesDarwin@lemmy.world 53 points 1 week ago

Also, I'm afraid this is not just a "spike", per se, but more like a prelude to much worse, including not just threats.

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[-] Cephalotrocity@biglemmowski.win 53 points 1 week ago

Yeah, the "I do not want to vote for the lesser evil" crowd was literally saying the misogyny out loud for all to see.

[-] chillinit@lemmynsfw.com 27 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Those of good conscience running in fear from orange stupidity didn't understand why others of good conscience were digging trenches: You can't outrun stupid. We fight or we die.

[-] Diplomjodler3@lemmy.world 47 points 1 week ago

Cue restrictions on the freedom of movement of women. To "protect" them, of course.

Dude literally said he was gonna “protect” women whether they liked it or not. I took him at his word, but clearly a lot of women didn’t.

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[-] thisphuckinguy@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago

Expect women to start cutting dicks off.

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[-] LilDestructiveSheep@lemmy.world 36 points 1 week ago

Whats even more worrying.. that doesnt come just from somewhere. This kind of thoughts existed before.

I am really worried. This is taking an ugly turn quite fast. I'm so sorry..

[-] Rekorse@sh.itjust.works 36 points 1 week ago

At least all these undatable men are outing themselves so publicly.

Start making a list ladies!

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[-] RizzRustbolt@lemmy.world 35 points 1 week ago

Great, now I'm going to have to start punching school-children.

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[-] nifty@lemmy.world 32 points 1 week ago

Tbh, this is all a fucking distraction from the class war that the oligarchs are winning without competition. And what a distraction it is! The cure to all these ills is higher taxes on the wealthy, but I don’t think any of those reforms are going to be remotely possible now lol

[-] theacharnian@lemmy.ca 32 points 1 week ago

Isn't this kind of shit that you guys have the 2nd amendment for?

[-] mojofrododojo@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

women shouldn't need to kill people in order to live in the US. And their assailants almost certainly also have access to firearms because, the US (either legally or in violation of red flags etc).

people shouldn't need to kill just to go about their fucking lives.

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[-] MunkysUnkEnz0@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago

How sad due to the internet, this is spilled over to the younger generation.

statistically younger generations tend to skew more liberal. Now we know why Musk bought Twitter propaganda.

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