The Increase in Hate Speech Toward Women (Part 1)

can do to push back against it. And for those of you who love a woman anywhere in the world and respect her as well, I think that these are things that you need to know about, just because there are a lot of things that are taking place online and fortunately we can track those things and again you can be empowered and make decisions that are most appropriate

for you and for the people in your life. And the second part of the show, we're going to be discussing both the political parties and their place in the world. This is something that in recent days, I've been wrestling with myself and so I expect to learn and I'm hoping that you will be able to learn something along with me. But there's there's that, and there's so much more to stick around for right here on Civic Cipher.

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this one's going to be interesting. You know, we're going to inform you of some things that you may not know about. Now. A lot of folks know that when Elon Musk took over Twitter that there was a sharp increase in h speech because he was a self proclaimed at the time at least free speech absolutist. That turned out not to be the case, especially when it was speech that was unflattering or speech that he just personally

just didn't like. But all the other speech was free, and that included the N word, which you know, we famously on this show found to be exceptionally disrespectful. The increase in the amount of the usage of the inWORD on that platform. But that was one of those things that a lot of people either knew about or you know, as I'm saying it and you're hearing it for the

first if that's you, it makes sense. I'm sure you know that's the first place people go when the guardrails are office, to the deepest, darkest, most hateful place that they can go on the Internet, and oftentimes that includes attacking gay people, or invoking language or black people or gay people, or invoking language that has harmed and further subjugated these two communities, often using words that is, in many cases the last words that people hear in their lifetime.

So might come as a surprise to know that that is also happening with women. So I'm going to share a little bit from isd global dot org. And before there's any pushback, I want you all to know that I am whenever I come across a new website, a new source of information, a new media outlet, I do a deep dive to determine their credibility and to determine their political bias. I did so with isdglobal dot org. I implore you to check it out and do your own

deep dive. But I Ramses did this. I did this prior to this recording, of course, and I can say that this is a slightly left leaning archive of data and statistics. My belief this is a personal belief this isn't anything, this isn't documentary, where my personal belief is that the truth often has a liberal bias to it. So the slightly left leaning composure of this website didn't throw me off what really is.

I forget the name of it right now. But in any event, the interpretation of the data and how how the data reads when when you're trying to make heads or tails with the numbers, there might be some bias there, but it was not a strong bias in the least. And again you're you're welcome to check this out. Also, I want you to know that this had a high degree of credibility. In other words, the things that I'm saying to are true and verified in so far as the checks that I'm able to perform can tell me.

With that said, let's move forward. ID researchers tracked narratives targeting women and the discussion of those narrat is between November fourth and six, twenty twenty four, across X formally Twitter, TikTok, Facebook, and Reddit. The use of derogatory and misogynistic language was already rife among well noted manisphere and extremist communities on these platforms, and this activity has only gained steam in

the past three days. According to the data, since the election, ISD also observed reports of these narratives being used to harass women offline, particularly on high school and college campuses.

In the past twenty four hours, there has been a four six hundred percent increase in mentions of the terms your body, my choice, and get back in the kitchen on X. Similarly, misogynist language such as the use of dumb C word to target Harris television personalities such as Rachel Maddow and others, received more than sixty four thousand mentions on X from more than forty two forty two

thousand accounts. On November fifth, Nick fointes an influential white nationalist podcaster appeared to be one of the early instigators in promoting the phrase. On November fifth, his ex post your body my Choice Forever has since received thirty five million views. On TikTok, female users are reporting that accounts are commenting your body my choice end mass on their posts.

One TikTok creator stated quote, I had to delete a video because I was being threatened and several men commenting saying they couldn't wait until I get assaulted or your body my choice. Another stated I woke up this morning to men commenting your body my choice. In a TikTok forum. On Reddit, a user posted last night, I reported one of the many comments I've seen saying your body my choice. The comment has been left up and the report has been marked as not a violation. How is that not

a violation? Okay? The phrase your body my Choice appears to have made its way offline, specifically onto schools. Young girls and parents have used social media to share instances of offline harassment. They include the phrase being directed at them within schools or chanted by young boys in classes. On Facebook, the phrase your body my Choice is currently trending with fifty two thousand posts in the last twenty

four hours. One parents stated quote, today, my daughter was told three separate times on campus, your body, my choice. The third group of boys told her to sleep with one eye open tonight. And I'm going to just read the rest of these or I'm going to read one more, actually, and then we'll get to the rest, all right. On Reddit, users utilize the platform to warn others of offline harassment. One user stated, women are being harassed today at U and M and told to go home where they belong

by gangs of men in maga gear. All right, I'm going to stop right there because you get it, and then we're going to get to some more data and some more instances of this. Again, we're going to call it anti women hate speech. And again, this show doesn't exist to make people fearful. I don't believe that that's

the right way to be. We try to inspire love and kindness and fellowship and togetherness, but we also need to be knowledgeable about the state that we are in and the people in the world that we live in, and their capacity to inflict harm physically or emotionally, and their capacity to threaten harm. So I worry particularly for people who are raising the next generation of women because they are still determined their identity. And of course you is famously one of those people. I see you kind

of processing all this right now. Yeah. My daughter.

I don't consume him as content. So wherever she was able to come across the former president and our current vice president, she made two determinations. One he's very mean and two she's very nice. And given those two choices, how does the very mean one come out victorious? With trying to comfort that question? And I didn't want to brush it off and treat it like it wasn't worth the conversation. I just was not capable of giving her

an answer that made sense. Because I steal to that point and maybe still today have not been able to help myself understand how we got here again again. And you know, friends have made fun of me in the past for being far too consumed with our vice president, with our former president. I'm sorry, and the hate that he stoked with our country, and I've never regained comfort since the election that he won. I've never exhaled him be like okay, we're okay, because he never went away

and neither did his followers. I saw people, you know, with their chest PopEd out talking about how they were glad we've talked about this on the show, that he made racist people come out of the closet, that they were glad that people were saying how they really felt. And I never understood that. I never understood this pride that we had and welcoming people to be outright, overt blatant racist, misogynist bigots, because that makes life less comfortable

and less safe. Virtue signaling as if we need to know everyone's purest intentions. No, we don't. The people in my life that I love, that are a part of my family and that I actually care about, I need to know how you feel or I'd love to know how you feel. But even then, if you fake it for our entire life, run it. Yeah, it doesn't make a real mean If you're going to be nice to me in front of me for our whole life, run it.

If you're gonna treat me and my family good for our entire life, and then when you go home talk to your other people about me in a way that's negative, but that has zero impact on my day to day run it. But emboldening people to be the worst versions of themselves shamelessly was always going to prove to be dangerous from the very first time it happened, from the very first time I saw it, you know, to the point now where when I see that red hat in

real life, even to this day, it's staggering. I never expect to cross paths with someone that actually feels that way, So it always catches me off guard because in my mind, I don't go anywhere where people would be racist, evil mean bullies that hate women, that hate everyone that's not white. I'd never be anywhere where those people exist, except I am all the time. And once upon a time, there were two things that we could probably or that I

could have said to my daughter. If she come home to me and said that someone said one of these things to her, first thing I do is take her right back to that school and have a conversation with the people in charge, Because once upon a time there were consequences for things like this. Once upon a time, people would scream things like this and hide their hand because they didn't want anybody to know that's how they

really felt. Except now they wear it on their shirts and their hats, and their trucks and on their porch.

of things. That's I've always been that way. You know, you listen to the show all the time, so you know who I am. But I I'm trying to understand the people that don't view the world the way that I do. And I know in my heart of hearts that there are sensitive people on that side on the right. There are people who are sensible, There are people who are measured, there are people who are kind. This show would not be on the radio right now if it were not for people who voted for Donald Trump the

first time. You know what I mean. We can share that story if we want. You know, this is factual, but I think at a point it's you realize that you're voting for the person who's creating this effect. This is these numbers, this data that I'm sharing with you, that that is the Trump effect, this rise in hate speech, anti female hate speech, that the person behind that is

Donald Trump and not Kamala Harris. And for you to ignore racism, because we talk about racism a lot, and for you to ignore you have to ignore a hundred things to even get here in order to ignore this too. And there's so much that half the country to your point, Q. Half the country still voted for this guy, who again results in this effect in the population. I'll finish. In some instances, women influencers that cater to traditional values joined

the male counterparts. Their content included videos of women upset by the election loss of Harris, referring to them as the R word. They have also parroted Trump's remarks from a leaked Access Hollywood video in which he told a TV personality that he grabs women by the genitals. One woman influencer posted on X that Trump had just grabbed Harris by the genitals on election Day. That post received

thirty three thousand views. Previous calls to repeal the nineteenth Amendment, which previously spiked on X on October twenty second, resurfaced online. Post calling for the repeal of the amendment increased by six hundred and sixty three percent compared with the week prior. The top ten posts at the time calling for the repeal of the nineteenth Amendment received more than four million views collectively. And for those who don't know the Nineteenth,

the men gives women the right to vote. A subset of the narratives were threatening women with sexual assaults. ID found five posts on x that called for sexual attack squads. I'm paraphrasing here, the largest of which had eighteen thousand views and came with the phrase your body, My choice. Manisphere influencer on Andrew Tait, in a post on X on November seventh, stated I saw a woman crossing the road today, but I just kept my foot down right

of way. You no longer have rights. The post received six hundred and eighty eight thousand views in under two hours. Another X user stated quote women threatening sex strikes like lmao, as if you have a say. That post has received ten million views. This is the Trump effect for people that have voted for him. It just it's heartbreaking because it's like, you know, the price of bread, the price again, No, this is fundamentally changing the country how we treat each other.

And everybody knows a way if you don't know a black person, everybody knows a woman that they have to love.