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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      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.

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        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.

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          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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            Indeed. The qons will call anyone with a degree an “elitist” [1], meanwhile, give the likes of Elon and the convicted felon, who are actual elitists, reacharounds. It’s almost as if actual meanings of words mean nothing to them.

            [1] This does not apply to their own kind, even if they were born rich AF and went to Ivy League school(s).

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          I see you don’t like “right wing” any more than I do, because I think they justify their actions by thinking “we must be right, we’re the right wing.” So I call them the Wrong Wing.

          Or sometimes the Human-Rights-Destroying Wing.

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        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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          You still can’t deny that women do hate women here.

          53 percent of women hate women with that additional 10 percent of young women that voted to hate women.

          I mean I’m willing to give women as a whole a quarter as a condolence prize since they played themselves.

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            Sorry not allowed to acknowledge the fault of any woman, it’s all men’s fault in the end. /s

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      as i just said in another comment, it scares me to see this shit AGAIN.

      this narrative is not making women any safer!

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          which truth is that, that no one hates women like other women?

          look at the current climate, i see a lot of woman-hating from all sides, including supposed allies on the left looking for a scapegoat. the oversimplified victim-blaming of dumping our president-elect at the feet of women (again) demonstrates very little understanding of gendered power dynamics and very little effort to build coalition.

          to this i would add the threads blaming racial and ethnic minorities, the poor, and the poorly educated.

          do you want less suffering in the world, or are you no better than the right in looking for someone to blame, and someone whose suffering you can enjoy because, “they asked for it, they voted for it, they deserve it?”

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            The truth is 53 percent of white women including 10 percent increase of young white women voted for the behavior. Behavior mind you were say on full force since 2016 and white women voted for again.

            As for me, when I being a minority, when I voted for Harris, knowing full well who Trump and company, was looking to my back, didn’t expect 53 percent of white women of stabbing me and other women in the back. And seeing as white women voted for more suffering so I’m going to enjoy the schadenfreude because I’m sure as hell tired of trying to bail the country out from the stupidity of Americans in general. If that makes me as bad as the right, I’m okay with that, at least I voted to not enable this behavior, unlike 53 percent of white women who literally voted for this behavior.

            White women need to get there shit in order so fix your own shit before you get all huffy with everyone else who are tired of trying to save you from yourselves.

            Again, you should talk to other white women about that.

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    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!

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      They’re absolutely sending their best.

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

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        I think op’'s comment was a dig at Trump’s anti-immigration stance. He often said the same thing except substitute the word immigrants.

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

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      In all seriousness, I expect a torrent of Tone Police popping up everywhere, telling everyone to Stop Being So Mean To Deplorables ™.

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      Remember, both sides are the same.

      Thumbing a picture of Jeffrey Epstein besides Bill Clinton and Donald Trump

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        Ok and? We weren’t trying to elect Bill Clinton you fucking mouth breathing cretin.

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          We weren’t trying to elect Bill Clinton

          Clinton was a major campaigner and bundler for the Harris administration. And he’s just the most blindingly obvious example. David Shor, Harris’s campaign chairperson, is also a well known creep.

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        What does this have to do with ANYTHING. It shows brain damage. You should get your brain checked.

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        We’re talking kids threatening other kids here. Lorena Bobbitt will mean nothing to them. A knee to the nuts, on the other hand…

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          well it might give them something to ask about from their parents and spread it around in so doing. but yeah a knee is a good idea in the moment

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            When dealing with an active threat, a response that the assailant can ignore afterwards is a useless response.

            I’m teaching my daughter the same lesson I was taught. You never start a fight but you sure do end it.

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    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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          I mean… yes and no. Pretty much exactly the same voted for Trump this time compared to last time. 11 million less people voted for Harris compared to Biden in 2020. This was a lot of things, but it was much less of a GOP victory than it was a DNC loss. Once again: world fucking champions at snatching defeat from the jaws of victory.

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            But Biden is a man. I wonder how many of the 11 million opted out for just that difference alone. Hard to ever know, I guess.

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              Back when Hilary was running, I was involved in a political discussion with the two older guys I was on the job with. One man said to the other, why do you think she can’t be a good president? The other man yelled “She’s a goddamn woman!”

              These people exist in numbers.

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                Yep. It is all too common. What is really weird is how many women I heard give really stupid reasons not to vote for Hillary - and then voted third party or actually for diaper donnie.

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              Yeah, that’s the other thing that baffles me. Like, don’t get me wrong - I wish it wasn’t the case, but the American electorate is clearly racist and sexist. So what does the DNC do? Nominate (or really, designate) a non-white lady. 🤦‍♂️

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                I totally get this. I wonder if they will be this fucking stupid the next time around, assuming we still have elections.

                When Biden was not stepping down at first, I was like, well, we are fucked. Then he selected her and I thought the same. Then she came out of the gate and it was like the dawning of a new day, especially when she picked Walz and my hopes went up. Then they started hemming Walz in, and she started tacking to the right?

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                  For real they should have just straight up picked Walz as the nominee. He was WAY better at connecting with normal people than Harris was. And he was a white dude, which in America, translates to “a viable candidate”.

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      Weren’t the Gilead states [1] already doing measures like that under Biden? I thought people (sheriffs, deputies, “concerned” citizens) were watching certain roads that led to free states like Colorado.

      [1] I still chuckle at a certain poster on Denver Post forums that would whine every single time I used that phrase, claiming there was no such thing. I’d ask him if he didn’t think his own con movement and Republican Party weren’t striving for exactly that kind of treatment. He never had an answer of course. But he’d go whining to the mods about it and how unfair it was to point out their own agenda.

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    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…

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      Probably going to make 4B more of a thing.

      Also: Nick Fuentes has been out as very undatable for a long time.

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          I’m thinking he’s someone that had his lunch money taken every day at school, had zero luck with women (or lusted after men but grew up with a warped belief system about sexuality and lives in the closet) and now just wants to make sure no one else is happy, either.

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            He found fame and money saying this type of stuff. Its to the point where people exclude his attribution in the title because otherwise its not very interesting.

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      I’ve been very frustrated that these guys bad behavior is being generalized to all guys. I’m viewed with suspicion despite taking active steps to make things better for the women in my life. I’m not perfect, and I have my moments, but I’m not the undatable Republican dude we’re talking about here.

      This isn’t the women’s fault, but I wish I could give some of these asshole misogynists a kick in the face for fucking it up for the rest of us. Having said that, I will be ban happy as a motherfucker the next time I run public events (used to teach classes, think dance, yoga, etc.)

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        It’s the point where we have to be anti instead of just not. Being anti racist, anti sexist, etc. Calling out the behavior at every turn instead of when it’s especially egregious or burying our heads in the sand as was the norm for decades before.

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          True. Also, it has to be individual actions since we can’t rely on the Democrats and we definitely can’t rely on the Republicans to fix this from the top down. We’re actually going to have to talk to the misogynists in our lives. Why can’t people fucking act right?

          Real men respect women.

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    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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      I will tell you that middle schoolers these days just say the dumbest shit. Like lines they’ve heard others say but have no idea what it means.

      And they argue over the dumbest shit too. Anyways this is just me saying this story fits well with my current understanding of young kids in school. I think its only news because it related to trump and the election, and thats worth money nowadays.

      Remember, the news stories we are served are chosen by profitability rather than social impact.

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        As someone who grew up pre-Internet, I will say that the Internet was not required for middle schoolers to say dumb shit. In fact, as I saw the “information superhighway” blooming, my hope was that the dumb shit would be squelched a bit by people being able to look up and fact-check all the really stupid stuff I’d hear.

        That didn’t pan out, and in fact, I wonder if Gen Z will be one of the very most reactionary “generation” to come down the pike. Boomers got a lot of shit despite a lot of them pushing leftward very hard when they were young, and now I’m hearing lots of dumb things about Gen X and Gen Y (and people in the Gen X age bracket falling for “but mah expensive bacon” I kind of get - both age groups are perhaps in the place where they are caring for older parents AND younger), but Gen Z?

        WTAF. I mean they are very, very young, and they broke right? When donnie was the option? I seriously do think the Youtube/Tiktok effect is being seen here…

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          I think with young voters the main difference is they think voting is a cool thing to do regardless of party. They still are very susceptible to the media bubbles, but I’m not sure either party has the advantage there.

          I saw both sides of tiktok for republicans and democrats, and it was like they paid the same viral marketing campaign because they followed the same templates.

          Short clips, out of context, along with a quick message leading you to the right conclusion. Not a whole lot different than the radio and TV ads.