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MAGA men unleash torrent of misogynistic hate following Trump’s election win
A surge of misogynistic social media posts featuring men laying claim to women’s bodies has coincided with President-elect Donald Trump’s election victory last week, according to a new report.
Trump ran a campaign that included denying women their free will. He vowed to be women’s protector “whether the women like it or not,” and he repeatedly praised the chaos that has ensued after the Supreme Court’s decision to overturn women’s federal right to abortion as “beautiful.” His victory has some in the MAGA movement eager to subjugate women, and their remarks all but affirm some people’s fears that a Trump win would unleash misogyny akin to that in “The Handmaid’s Tale.”
The nonpartisan Institute for Strategic Dialogue, which tracks the spread of disinformation and propaganda online, released a report Friday that found an initial spike in blatantly misogynistic statements — including men telling women “your body, my choice” and calling for women’s voting rights to be repealed — following Trump’s victory.
I’d been keeping track of such misogyny in the lead-up to Election Day. But the ISD report explains how this kind of bigoted bile exploded online after Trump’s win.
According to the report:
In a national election heavily focused on women and reproductive rights, women in the United States have faced an onslaught of online abuse, harassment, and denigration following Vice President Kamala Harris’s loss. This is more than just a continuation of misogynist trends that ISD documented in both the run-up to this election and in the aftermath of previous cycles including 2020 and 2022. As an emboldened group of ‘manosphere’ influencers, extremist ideologues and politicians exploit Donald Trump’s election as a rebuke of both reproductive rights and women’s rights, the impact on women could extend into the next presidential election and beyond.
The “manosphere” is an online, multiplatform community of angst-ridden men who believe feminism — and women’s independence, more broadly — is a key source of society’s problems. The report quotes a widely shared post-election tweet from far-right manosphere podcaster Andrew Tatewho suggested he hit the gas pedal in his car when he saw a woman at a crosswalk because “you no longer have rights.” It also quotes a social media post from Nick Fuentes, Trump’s white nationalist dinner date from 2022who tweeted, “Your body, my choice. Forever,” and garnered tens of millions of impressions.
In just a 24-hour span after the election, researchers reportedly found a “4,600% increase in mentions of the terms ‘your body, my choice’ and ‘get back in the kitchen’ on X.” The report refers to multiple social media users who said they or their children were told “your body, my choice” in class. The researchers found tens of thousands of accounts using the phrase “dumb c–t” to refer to Vice President Kamala Harris and other women on Election Day itself, using an insult Elon Musk’s super PAC referred to in a suggestive anti-Harris ad. And the researchers also found calls for “rape” and “rape squads” garnered thousands of views on social media after last week’s election.
This research aligns with research from other experts who’ve talked about invective targeting women in politics. Disinformation expert Nina Jankowicz, for example, wrote for BLN that the vicious attacks Harris has received are incomparable to those any woman in politics before her has faced.And this fits a troubling global trend. Around the world, many of the repressive, authoritarian-like figures Trump and his movement idolize have all been bolstered by movements of petulant men who harass and threaten women. They include Salvadoran President Nayib BukeleArgentinian President Javier Milei and Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán.
All have learned how to use the misogynistic angst of their country’s men to their political advantage, and Donald Trump is no different.
The topic of “MAGA masculinity” is one I’ve been covering closely over the past several months, and I’m going to stay on this beat. To read some of my previous coverage, check the links herehereherehere and here.
Ja’han Jones is The ReidOut Blog writer. He’s a futurist and multimedia producer focused on culture and politics. His previous projects include “Black Hair Defined” and the “Black Obituary Project.”
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Britain wouldn’t have its latest likely next prime minister if not for soccer.
Andy Burnham, the former Greater Manchester mayor elected to the U.K. Parliament in a closely-watched by-election on Thursday, is expected to oust Prime Minister Keir Starmer as Labour Party leader in a matter of weeks. The sport propelled his political rise.
The pivotal moment of Burnham’s long political career came in 2009, when he was the Cabinet minister for culture, media and sport under then-PM Gordon Brown. Burnham was asked to return to his native Liverpool for a memorial commemorating the Hillsborough Disaster.
The 1989 event remains Britain’s worst-ever sporting catastrophe. Almost 100 Liverpool fans were crushed to death at a cup game in South Yorkshire, following a series of disastrous crowd control errors by police chiefs and stadium staff.
The horror of the day was compounded in the immediate aftermath, when police sought to cover up their mistakes by falsely blaming drunken Liverpool fans for the crush. The lies were amplified by a willing national media and allowed to linger for years; the city grieved and demanded justice. Bereaved families campaigned for years. But no one listened, and no one was held accountable.
Born in Liverpool and steeped in soccer culture, Burnham knew all this as he headed to the memorial at Liverpool’s Anfield stadium 20 years later. He was well aware how a young government envoy would be greeted by the crowd, still raging at the injustice two decades on. But to his credit, he went anyway — and was met with a wall of heckles, chants and protest songs from the part of Anfield, known as the Kop, where the team’s loudest supporters congregate. (The video of his halting, shattered-looking appearance is well worth watching.)
Burnham — until then a typical career politician in Westminster — has described the day as a seminal moment. He returned to Cabinet and demanded a new inquiry into Hillsborough. Three years later its report revealed every claim made by the justice campaigners — of police failures and a scandalous cover-up — had been true. The government was forced to apologize.
Burnham was widely praised for his role in exposing the truth about Hillsborough. But more significant in his ultimate rise to power would be the shift in his own psyche. “I always say that I took my first steps out of Westminster on 15 April 2009 when I walked out to face the Kop,” he wrote in his memoir, “Head North,” penned with close friend (and Hillsborough survivor) Steve Rotheram. “Things were never the same after that day.”
Burnham says his experiences dealing with the Hillsborough justice campaign shaped his view of the Westminster political machine, as an arrogant and failing institution which ignores English regions outside of London. Eight years later he would quit Westminster altogether to become a mayor in his native northwest.
Fast-forward to 2026, and Burnham finds himself in an enviable position — an experienced politician able to cast himself as a political outsider ready to take on the Westminster elites. (While Starmer supports the North London-based champions Arsenal, Burnham is a season ticket holder at his beloved Everton F.C., and is regularly photographed jogging in a vintage Everton jersey.) It’s a familiar narrative which chimes with disgruntled voters everywhere.
Read Jack’s Blue Light News Magazine profile of Andy Burnham here and Blue Light News’s full coverage of the Makerfield by-election and its unfolding fallout here.
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