- cross-posted to:
- politics
- cross-posted to:
- politics
In the days after the presidential election, Sadie Perez began carrying pepper spray with her around campus. Her mom also ordered her and her sister a self-defense kit that included keychain spikes, a hidden knife key and a personal alarm.
It’s a response to an emboldened fringe of right-wing “manosphere” influencers who have seized on Republican Donald Trump ’s presidential win to justify and amplify misogynistic derision and threats online. Many have appropriated a 1960s abortion rights rallying cry, declaring “Your body, my choice” at women online and on college campuses.
“The fact that I feel like I have to carry around pepper spray like this is sad,” said Perez, a 19-year-old political science student in Wisconsin. “Women want and deserve to feel safe.”
Isabelle Frances-Wright, director of technology and society at the Institute for Strategic Dialogue, a think tank focusing on polarization and extremism, said she had seen a “very large uptick in a number of types of misogynistic rhetoric immediately after the election,” including some “extremely violent misogyny.”
Loser incels are so pathetic.
I find it funny/scary that they bash homosexuals for not being able to “make” children, and in the next sentence say they don’t need a woman…what’s their plan for keeping the human race going?
They “don’t need” women as independent personalities.
They want to go back to women being property and prizes to do with as they please.
Rape.
It’s not gay if you’re trying to make a baby
The sexistosphere.