The New Yorker:

It took less than twenty-four hours after Trump’s reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of gendered regression: “Your body, my choice.”

By Jia Tolentino

In 1970, a few years before Roe v. Wade, feminists agitating for abortion rights, at a Philadelphia protest, held up signs that said “My Body, My Decision”—a slogan that morphed, during the course of the next decade, into “My body, my choice.” This became the defining phrase of the pro-choice movement, a line toward which feminism moved aspirationally and asymptotically. Sexual assault was the next issue to enter the framework: in two decades, the argument that a wife had the legal right to choose when to have sex with her husband went from laughable to binding. The first spousal-rape trial occurred in 1978, and spousal rape became illegal throughout the United States in 1993. The sexual-assault reckoning of the twenty-tens attempted to give “My body, my choice” a ring of finality: it was a woman’s choice what to do with her body, even if she was drunk, even if the guy was famous, even if she’d acted as if she wanted him before. At the time, I had the naïve idea that something had permanently changed. I thought we had already seen the backlash—that it was represented by Donald Trump’s first electoral victory, and that the idea that women are full people was at enough of a consensus that seismic, if messy, progress could still happen, as it did in 2017, with #MeToo. Now there is no more Roe and Trump is about to be President again, and it took less than twenty-four hours after his reëlection for young men to take up a slogan that could define the coming era of regression: “Your body, my choice.”

It’s a joke, first of all! Get a grip, you easily triggered libfems! Everything started with a tweet from Nick Fuentes, a twenty-six-year-old streamer and self-described “proud incel” who, beneath a hard veneer of something that’s supposed to seem like irony, regularly praises Hitler, and has expressed his desire for “Catholic Taliban rule” in America, as well as for a future marriage to a sixteen-year-old. (Fuentes has been considered toxic enough that Trump was denounced by Republican Party members after having dinner with him in 2022; in this mask-off moment, such posturing seems likely enough to change.) On Election Night, Fuentes tweeted, “Your body, my choice. 

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