Megan Boyd wasn’t surprised when she first heard her child Daisy describe the phrase “your body, my choice” being used at school. Saddened, yes. Disappointed, absolutely. But for Boyd, the surge in misogynistic rhetoric following the election was just another sign of a growing boldness she’d seen in her New Hampshire town.
“It felt like there was kind of this permission to say the quiet stuff out loud now,” Boyd told Sojourners.
Daisy, a ninth grader, told Sojourners they encountered the phrase at high school almost immediately after the election. It was used mostly by boys, sometimes as a joke, sometimes with chilling sincerity.
“There was a kid in my Spanish class wearing a very right-wing shirt,” Daisy said. “He argued with one of the girls and said, ‘Well, your body, my choice.’ I know he meant it.”
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