{"id":1416,"date":"2024-11-10T13:23:07","date_gmt":"2024-11-10T13:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1416"},"modified":"2024-11-27T08:33:33","modified_gmt":"2024-11-27T08:33:33","slug":"deep-meerkat-thoughts-your-body-my-choice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?p=1416","title":{"rendered":"The Thinking &#8216;Kat: &#8216;Your Body, my Choice&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The title of this post is also the mantra that some Trump-loving Republican voters have been repeating, ever since he won the election. Within days, there has been an eruption of misogynistic slogans, and it seems a certain degree of gleeful hand-rubbing, in anticipation of rolling back women&#8217;s rights and freedoms. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t to say that the remarks spreading across social media are a definitive indication of the future of women&#8217;s rights in the USA, but the mindset is definitely there, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.isdglobal.org\/digital_dispatches\/your-body-my-choice-hate-and-harassment-towards-women-spreads-online\/\">displayed by countless men<\/a>. They are emboldened by Trump&#8217;s victory, and they are not hiding their wish to control and dehumanise women. This explosion of threats and hate has not come out of nowhere, and there&#8217;s no telling where it might lead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It can easily be argued that Republicans view The Handmaiden&#8217;s Tale not as a warning, but as a guidebook. Some of their actions have <a href=\"https:\/\/indivisible.org\/resource\/unmasking-maga-exploring-gops-war-women-womens-history-month\">already hinted at this<\/a>. Their allies within evangelical Christian denominations have long-demonstrated latent misogyny of their own. The future of women&#8217;s rights suddenly looks very uncertain, and if the rise in online vitriol translates into real-life action, there could be a lot of broken hearts and horrible pain in the near future. I hope none of that comes to pass, but it&#8217;s a very uncertain future indeed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/?page_id=174\">Back to Deep Meerkat Thoughts<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The title of this post is also the mantra that some Trump-loving Republican voters have been repeating, ever since he won the election. Within days, there has been an eruption of misogynistic slogans, and&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_pvb_checkbox_block_on_post":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[13],"tags":[35,107,64,109,89],"class_list":["post-1416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics-and-society","tag-christianity","tag-deep-thoughts","tag-feminism","tag-republicans","tag-trump"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/MeerkatThinking.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1416"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1793,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1416\/revisions\/1793"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/meerkatmusings.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}