# "Your body, my choice" - is it really true that gangs of boys are chanting this in schoolyards and other public places? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [November 14, 2024, 4:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245 "2024-11-14T04:39:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/21 "2024-11-15T07:07:35Z")
How about “My body, your choice”? ---
**Author:** ![Leaper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/4bbf92/32.png) [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/22 "2024-11-15T07:10:21Z")
> [@Cervaise](#): > > Login wall. Let’s try [this reblog](https://www.tumblr.com/cpericardium/767140357115969536)… > [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > How about “My body, your choice”? There are worse pickup lines. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/23 "2024-11-15T07:13:14Z")
> [@Leaper](#): > > > [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](#): > > > > How about “My body, your choice”? > > There are worse pickup lines. Could be a T-shirt for orgies? ETA: there is a sweatshirt with this for sale on Amazon ---
**Author:** ![nelliebly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/nelliebly/32/5422_2.png) [@nelliebly](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nelliebly)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 8:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/24 "2024-11-15T08:14:43Z")
> [@nearwildheaven](#): > > Not being a mom, of tweens or anyone else, I’m personally finding this a little hard to believe, and the whole thing sounds like a meme or an urban legend in the making. Oh, it’s definitely happening. From [this _New Yorker_ article:](https://www.newyorker.com/news/the-lede/your-body-my-choice-a-new-rallying-cry-for-the-irony-poisoned-right) > Another district in the state [Minnesota] said that female students had received “your body, my choice” texts. There are parents all over social media reporting that their kids are hearing the phrase from boys at school. A therapist at a university in the Upper Midwest told me that a student she works with had gone to a frat party where one man had yelled it, and that the people around him hadn’t called him out. ---
**Author:** ![Mk\_VII](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/5f9b8f/32.png) [@Mk\_VII](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mk_VII)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/25 "2024-11-15T11:50:56Z")
Teenagers saying something controversial for the sake of causing outrage? Color me surprised. ---
**Author:** ![Typo\_Knig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/cdc98d/32.png) [@Typo\_Knig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Typo_Knig)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/26 "2024-11-15T14:32:13Z")
It has to be nipped in the bud, before it becomes their adult behavior. Threatening peers is not a good way through life. ---
**Author:** ![nearwildheaven](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/90db22/32.png) [@nearwildheaven](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nearwildheaven)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/27 "2024-11-15T23:34:16Z")
I agree. I also think a lot of the kids who are doing this are trying to make a viral TikTok video. ---
**Author:** ![Beckdawrek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/beckdawrek/32/3647_2.png) [@Beckdawrek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beckdawrek)\ **Post date:** [November 15, 2024, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/28 "2024-11-15T23:44:04Z")
I’ve never watched a whole lot of Tiktok. But I see loads of adults making a living off of YouTube. Tiktok vids come and go. I’d be willing to bet more adult men have said the “Your body, my choice” with vicious intent. Teen boys might say it to be stupid in the hall way at school. But they say lots of things in those hallways. I’m more concerned about adults doing it. And believing it’s true. But you know, really, haven’t men been saying nasty things, cat calling to women for millennia? Not new. ---
**Author:** ![Darren\_Garrison](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/darren_garrison/32/92_2.png) [@Darren\_Garrison](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Darren_Garrison)\ **Post date:** [December 6, 2024, 9:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245/29 "2024-12-06T21:40:09Z")
> [@Darren\_Garrison](#): > > Speaking of little Nicky… > > [Video of Nick Fuentes Attacking Woman at His Home Goes Viral - Newsweek](https://www.newsweek.com/nick-fuentes-address-marla-rose-pepper-spray-women-1985059) > **[Battery Charge For Racist Nick Fuentes](https://www.thesmokinggun.com/documents/crime/nick-fuentes-battery-275931)** > > DECEMBER 6--Nick Fuentes, the notorious far-right racist/antisemite, has been charged with battery for a confrontation outside his Illinois home with a woman who said she was maced and shoved to the [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-body-my-choice-is-it-really-true-that-gangs-of-boys-are-chanting-this-in-schoolyards-and-other-public-places/1010245.md?page=1)