About

Your Body, My Choice is a catchphrase popularized by far-right political commentator and groyper Nicholas J. Fuentes in the aftermath of Donald Trump winning the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election. The phrase, which saw previous usage on 4chan, is a play on the popular abortion rights slogan, "My body, my choice." An audio clip of Nick Fuentes saying, "Your body, my choice," became a viral sound on TikTok in early November 2024 with women using it to express their concerns about women's rights under a Trump presidency. A tweet of him proclaiming the same statement also began making the rounds on Twitter during the same timeframe.

Origin

Precursor

The phrase "your body, my choice" can be traced to 4chan forums as early as 2014. However, earlier mentions of the phrase were from channers claiming that women adopt a "your body, my choice" attitude when it comes to male circumcision. An anonymous post in a thread about male circumcision on 4chan's /pol/ from April 28th, 2014 reads, "Feminists to men: >Your body MY CHOICE Men to feminists: >Just wait for us to get ours."^[12]

On May 3rd, 2020, a 4chan user used the phrase to criticize vaccines and mock a woman defending women's rights while a February 2021 post used an image of the GigaChad meme alongside the catchphrase.^[13][14]

Emergence Following 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

On November 5th, 2024, controversial far-right political pundit Nick Fuentes^[3] posted a tweet that read, "Your body, my choice. Forever." The post gathered over 48 million views and 37,000 likes in three days.

Fuentes hosted a livestream reacting to the results of the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election on Rumble ^[1] on November 5th. At one point during the stream, he paused on a scene showing two female Kamala Harris supporters and said:

TFW you're totally not pressed. TFW we control your bodies. Hey bitch, we control your bodies. Guess what, guys win again, okay. Men win again, yes. We control your bodies. Hi! I'm your Republican Congressman. It's your body, my choice. And men win again. There will never ever be a female President. It's over. Glass ceiling? It's a ceiling made of f------ bricks."

The clip was reposted to Twitter / X by the account @FuentesUpdates^[2] on November 5th, 2024, where it gathered over 18 million views and 16,000 likes in three days.

Women lose again! Your body, OUR CHOICE 😂 that ceiling is made out of BRICK! pic.twitter.com/bzbevfbc9A

— Fuentes Updates (@FuentesUpdates) November 6, 2024

Spread

Several internet users reacted to Nick Fuentes's rhetoric online in early November 2024. Some praised his statement while others criticized it, with Twitter^[4][5] users @wooy0lvrmercy and @puppetrevival quoting the post in disagreement on November 6th and 7th, gathering over 250,000 and 180,000 likes, respectively, in roughly two days.

Also on November 6th, 2024, Twitter^[6] user @ItsSamG reposted Fuentes's tweet, writing, "The masks are fully off now," and gathering over 280,000 likes in a day. The post was quoted by other Twitter users who shared anecdotes about the phrase, including @RyanShead^[7] who wrote, "Little boys were saying 'your body, my choice' to little girls at school today. But tell us more about the scary books in the library," and gathered over 360,000 likes in two days.

TikTok Presence

The sound clip of Nick Fuentes saying, "Your body, my choice," began making the rounds on TikTok in early November 2024 as well, as seen in a November 7th post by TikToker^[8] @smellanora. The post gathered over 1 million views and 340,000 likes in a day.

Some female TikTokers also noted a rise in people commenting with the phrase "your body, my choice" on their TikTok videos during the same timeframe, as seen in a November 7th, 2024, post by user @whiterefrigerator that gathered over 5 million plays and 1.2 million likes in a day.^[9]

Nick Fuentes' Reaction

Fuentes appeared to be unfazed by the backlash he received for his statements, reposting a number of the aforementioned TikToks to his own Twitter / X page,^[10] before quoting his viral tweet^[11] with an image of a giant Groyper character.

They turned it into a tiktok audio pic.twitter.com/hCR2e95Sgi

— Nicholas J. Fuentes (@NickJFuentes) November 7, 2024

Nick Fuentes Gets Doxxed

As his statement garnered controversy online, Nick Fuentes was then doxxed and had his address shared on Twitter around November 9th, 2024. Google Streetview images of his house began making the rounds before the address was eventually blurred.

Twitter^[15] user @guelphgirlchris posted Fuentes's full address on November 9th, gathering over 500,000 likes on a tweet that read, "Hey, Nick. Your home, my choice." Also on November 9th, X^[16] user @ashleelorrainex wrote, "you’ve seen Nick Fuentes frantically trying to hide that he’s getting doxxed but have you seen the reviews people are leaving on his address," gathering over 190,000 likes in three days.

My Body, His Choice

In early to mid-November 2024, several female conservative internet users began posting the phrase, "My body, his choice," as seen in a November 7th post by Twitter / X user @BasedBlondex^[18] and a November 9th post by @emilysavesusa.^[17] The posts gathered over 10,000 and 5,000 likes in three days.

On November 8th, 2024, X^[19] user @crotchner2 gathered over 500,000 likes for quoting a "my body, his choice" post, writing, "why would your 15 year old gay son have control over your body."

Lorena Bobbit Connection

Several internet users brought up the 1993 John and Lorena Bobbit case to discuss their emphatic reaction to the phrase "your body, my choice." Lorena Bobbit was a woman who was acquitted after she severed her husband John's penis while he was asleep, citing years of continued mistreatment on his part.

TikToker^[20] @jordanthegreywitch posted one such video on November 9th, 2024, gathering over 1 million views and 290,000 likes in two days.

Also on November 9th, Twitter^[21] / X user @GeoRebekah posted, "Starting January 20, we're all Lorena Bobbitt," alongside a photo showing a male symbol being cut by scissors. The post gathered over 100 likes in two days.

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