“'Your body, my choice,' was coined by the far-right, pro-Nazi internet troll and Trump dinner guest Nick Fuentes on the night of the election. 'Your body, my choice,' Fuentes tweeted. 'Forever.' It’s a taunting inversion of the pro-choice slogan 'my body, my choice,' meant to assert women’s autonomy: instead, 'your body, my choice' presents women’s full citizenship and freedom as laughable, asserting, in gleeful terms, the male supremacy that will now carry for the force of policy and law under a new Trump administration.
In response to Fuentes’s post, pro-Trump men have adopted the slogan en masse to troll women online. An analysis from the Institute for Strategic Dialogue found that the use of the phrase soared on social media in the days following the election, along with similar misogynist phrases like 'get back in the kitchen,' and the use of sexist slurs directed at liberal and progressive women like Kamala Harris and Rachel Maddow. Female TikTok users reported a flood of such comments, with 'your body, my choice' chief among them on the platform. And young girls in schools, along with their teachers and parents, reported incidents of the phrase being yelled out by boys in taunting jeers of harassment and intimidation in the days following the election."
~ Moira Donegan
"'Your body, my choice’: what misogynistic Trump supporters feel..."
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2024/nov/13/your-body-my-choice-maga-men
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