Donald Trump's election victory has unleashed an online assault on women by some of his male supremacist supporters, who have been publishing threats of violence to their millions of followers.
Warning: This story contains descriptions of sexual assaults and threats against women.
One of the most viral posts, Nicholas Fuentes tells women: "Your body, my choice. Forever."
Another promises: "They'll be bred willingly or unwillingly."
Another says: "Women threatening sex strikes like LMAO as if you have a say."
Some posts promise the attacks will begin on January 20 — the day Donald Trump will again be sworn in as president. Others suggest not slowing down as women cross the road.
In the days following the election result, this dangerous rhetoric exploded online, but experts and feminists say it has been permitted as part of the mainstream Republican campaign.
And when the majority of Americans endorsed that campaign and Donald Trump as president, the men behind the misogyny were "emboldened".
Some women have waded into the threads to respond, with one saying: "The masks are fully off now."
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For the likes of Nicholas Fuentes, a self-styled far-right political commentator who uses his live streaming platform to push white supremacist and misogynistic ideas, the reaction is hardly surprising.
But since the November 5 election, that messaging has moved beyond people like him and into more mainstream spaces, both online and offline.
On Wednesday in the United States, just hours before Harris made her concession speech, two men walked onto a Texas university campus with signs that read: "Women are property" as well as homophobic and racial slurs.
On Friday local time, Donald J Trump Jnr posted photos of Hillary Clinton and Kamala Harris with the comment: "Trump arrested for beating two women."
The family of the United States president-elect is not just endorsing the use of violence language towards women, but participating in it.
And when it comes to X, the platform where so much anonymous abuse is hurled at women, the person in charge has made it very clear the harassers won't be stopped, all in the name of free speech.
The abuse has brought some women to tears. They fear for their personal safety as it becomes clear that more than 74 million people were willing to support a presidential candidate who himself has been found to have sexually assaulted a woman.
In some cases, the election result and the wave of misogynistic abuse it has unleashed has women swearing off men altogether.
A day of reckoning
Fuentes had been an outspoken supporter of Trump and his "Stop the Steal" conspiracy theory, but before this election said MAGA "no longer speaks to me".
Once the results were in, Fuentes tweeted: "I'm relieved Donald Trump won."
His viral "your body, my choice" tweet has since been viewed more than 1 million times, quoted and reposted, inspiring his followers and his fellow misogynists to make further threats.
In one particularly specific post, an account threatens to attack a woman, noting "January 20, 2025. You knew what would happen".
It is a reference to inauguration day when Donald Trump will become the 47th president.
Associate professor of politics at Drew University and scholar of the Christian far right Chelsea Ebin told the ABC she believed: "they're saying that the new era begins with his inauguration."
"I think that sort of threatening imagery and messaging is also pulling on a longer history of anticipating a day of reckoning."
On January 6, 2021 as Trump supporters stormed the US Capitol building, within the mob were symbols and one of the most prominent was a gallows scaffold, an apparent reference to the white supremacist book about a fictional insurrection called The Day of The Rope.
"I think that there is probably a connection between the sort of fantasy of there being a Day of The Rope where all of the progressives, leftists and feminists are literally lynched to threats around January 20," Dr Ebin said.
She said Donald Trump's win had "sparked" a new wave of threats, but his time in American politics had created a space for these ideas to grow and to be validated.
"I think we need to anticipate people taking this sentiment of being emboldened by the Trump campaign, by the mainstreaming of misogyny over the last — not just three months of the campaign — but really over the last eight years since Trump entered the mainstream political discourse," Dr Ebin said.
"They don't just feel emboldened, they don't just feel empowered, but they actually are the majority. And that is not insignificant. I think that it is absolutely going to show up in the kinds of actions that people take."
As Kamala Harris accepted defeat this week, she spoke about the fight not being over. About an alternative America of the future where all women have "the freedom to make decisions about their own body".
As male supremacists were crafting their "your body, my choice" messages online, Caroline Motley was in the Harris crowd, preparing to fight, but feeling exhausted that she has to.
A day later, she was reading comments online and seeing in real time how Donald Trump's victory had started to impact the women of America.
"I'm very scared, to be honest," Ms Motley said.
"In this moment, I don't think I've ever felt so dehumanised."
As a reproductive rights advocate and someone who was part of the Harris campaign effort, Ms Motley said the "your body, my choice" messaging made her sick.
"It it makes me feel, first of all like the fight is just beginning," she said.
"And for someone like that to feel empowered to say those things, there's something really insidious going on.
"We are just constantly pleading with men to see us as human beings and we're constantly begging for a sliver of their humanity and time and again, we've just been slapped down and told that we're asking for too much."
Ms Motley said the "behaviour of men and the mistreatment of women" had turned "loving women into fighters that they didn't want to have to be".
For some American women who do not align with Donald Trump, there is another option.
The 4B movement
On Wednesday local time, American TikTok creator @girl_dumphim announced she was opting out of men and into 4B.
The 4B movement originated in South Korea and for those who have joined it, there is a swearing off of dating men, having sex with them, marrying them or carrying their children until gender equality is achieved.
It's a form of protest, but those who opt into 4B, say it's also a form of protection.
It is a way of opting out of the traditional female gender roles, making that known and finding solidarity with other women.
The woman behind the @girl_dumphim, Maria B, posted: "Delete the apps, cancel your wedding, get your tubes tied."
[4B TikTok]Maria told the ABC she had been considering the move for a while, but her decision was "trigged by the election".
Her original 4B video has been viewed more than 4 million times.
"I have gotten the most amazing response from women and men — because I want to be very clear — I do not think men are the enemy, but I think they come from a place of privilege," Maria said.
"I think that they cannot understand because they have never experienced it."
Maria has since posted 29 other videos about her decision, helping to explain the nuances of it and inviting men to be curious.
"If you're a man and you feel offended, and you feel like I'm throwing you under the bus, and other women are just throwing all men under the bus, I promise you we're not," she told followers.
"If you believe in your heart that you are not a bad man and you want to change the way men are seen, if you want to know how you can support your wife, your girlfriend, your daughters, your mother, your grandmother, I will speak to you."
[TikTok 2]Another creator @artangelalexa tells followers: "I've been participating in the 4B movement since the summer of 2022."
"I haven't been intimate with any men at all, I haven't been on any dates with any men, I haven't entertained a man at all, no situationships, none of that hot garbage ... hook-up culture," she said.
"I've been waiting for everybody else to catch up to speed for a while."
Her advice: "Decentre men from your life."
Ms Motley agreed with the approach, saying: ''We can open our own bank accounts. We can get an education, we can have a job and own property, and we can vote."
"Because so many women don't need men, men have to become desirable and they haven't done that. They have not made themselves desirable to women who no longer need them.
"And so I think it's really exciting to see that women are choosing to no longer put themselves into relationships that actively harm them mentally, physically, emotionally simply because of societal pressure."
'The call is coming from inside the house'
The election results show a clear win for Donald Trump, and even before November 5 there were signs young men were swinging Republican.
But the women vote contained some complexity too.
More than 50 per cent of white women voted for Donald Trump, despite the sexual assault finding against him and despite the rhetoric he inspires and condones.
For left-leaning women and those working for the advancement of women's rights, that is a sobering statistic.
"The call is coming from inside the house," Dr Ebin said.
"Women also are participants in the maintenance and reproduction of male supremacy. Not all women, of course, but many."
Kamala Harris won 89 per cent of the black women vote and 60 per cent of the Latina women vote, according to AP.
"I think the the 4B movement is reflective of the women who were voting for Harris, who who were already horrified by what was happening," Dr Ebin said.
"But it's not going to extend to the other half of white women who are bought in to the maintenance of a male supremacist society and so something else needs to be done to reach them."
