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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    905 days ago

    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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      855 days ago

      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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        245 days ago

        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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          175 days ago

          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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        35 days ago

        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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      235 days ago

      The DoE is already under attack. It’s part of Project 2025, and they’re laying the groundwork for it already. They’re going to work hard to ensure education is difficult to access and/or neutralized as much as possible.

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      45 days ago

      No, democrats need to adjust their messages to people without a college education.

      One of the things that makes Trump so popular is that he panders to people without much education.

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        55 days ago

        A better-educated public is a net gain regardless who’s running the government.

        Better educated women are less trapped in abusive relationships, although it still happens, because they have better job prospects and better chance to get law on their side.