“Men win again, and yes we control your body.” Nick Fuentes has exploded on TikTok for his controversial views on how woman should be treated. The uproar of feminism amiss the 2024 US election has become a viral stance on the social media platform where his podcast has been doxed. Fuentes is a 26-year-old far-right streamer whose live streams with underlying conversation of supremacist, misogynistic and antisemitic viewpoints, a recent video of him celebrating trump reelection caused an uproar due to the statement ‘we will never have a female present … we will keep you down forever’.
The streamers videos have Encouraged the popular hashtag ‘man or bear’ originating from a video saying that they would rather be left alone in an inclosed space with a bear due to the natural impulse to kill rather than a man. The debate sparked concern as the reasons provided all boiled down to the idea of how men act when ‘in secluded situations’. In 2023, over 1 million crimes against women and girls were recorded in the UK, the estimate slowly rising to one in 12 women will fall victim to violence every year.
With the ‘me too movement’ highlighting the need to understand not only the fear women have in the world but also to educate younger generations of both men and women. The world health organisation states that one in three women will experience sexual or physical abuse while 664 bear attacks have been recorded, creating an unsettling comparison to the man or bear argument.
Within the media platform comparing the handmaids tale to woman’s experiences within countries. With the Taliban creating rules that woman cannot speak to each other and Trumps banning of abortion has resulted in many protests, bringing in younger generations to fight against the laws. Many women are more distraught about the fear of losing the right to safe abortions with the rate of unsafe abortions set at 20 million prior to the US election out of 42 million worldwide, it predicts unfortunate consequences for the act and the future of women’s choice in their health.
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