USA after the election: Why women are now banishing men from their lives

Brigitte USA after the election: Why women are now banishing men from their lives 13 hours • 3 minutes reading time After the defeat of Vice President Kamala Harris, women and girls in the USA are being subjected to verbal attacks. Donald Trump's re-election is apparently encouraging right-wing men to openly live out their hatred of women. On the other hand, a movement is gaining ground that calls on women to completely avoid men. The anti-feminist backlash in the USA is making great strides: Men, encouraged by the outcome of the election, are celebrating Donald Trump's victory by showering women with contempt online and mocking them with the message: "Your body, my choice. Forever." It is the slogan of the right-wing extremist activist Nick Fuentes, who released a video dripping with misogyny after the election in which he celebrates that "a woman would never become president." "Guess what, guys win again!" he rants, and: "Your body, my choice. Forever!" The man who met Donald Trump for dinner in 2022 is thus perverting the battle cry of the women's movement "My body, my choice" - "My body belongs to me". Women back in the kitchen The day after the election, the London-based "Institute for Strategic Dialogue" (ISD), which has made it its mission to combat extremism, stated: In the last 24 hours, there has been a 4,600 percent increase in mentions of the terms "Your body, my choice" and "Go back to the kitchen" on X.