In the days after Donald Trump was elected president, a South Korean feminist movement is capturing young women’s interest on social media.

Summary

Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory, Google searches for “4B,” a South Korean feminist movement advocating a “no sex, no dating, no marriage, no children” stance, surged in the U.S.

The 4B movement, popular among young women on social media, promotes individual resistance against conservative politics and the erosion of reproductive rights.

The trend reflects a broader ideological divide between young men and women in the U.S., where women under 30 are significantly more liberal than men.

  • Ekybio@lemmy.world
    9127·
    4 days ago

    Understandable.

    But sweaering of ALL men is neither healthy nor realistic and the 4B movement is not really helping the issue. Plua the movement is extremely transphobic and essentialist. Its just TERFs doing a thing again…

    A more practical solution: Dont date MAGA and leave them if need be. Take the children from them as well. They deserve scorn for voting in a dictator, just because they cant get laid. And they deserve to be reminded on how parhetic they are for all of it every single das until they change.

    • lettruthout@lemmy.worldEnglish
      593·
      4 days ago

      Agreed. I also can understand the feelings behind this, but it seems to ignore that quite a number of women voted for Trump.

      • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
        3318·
        4 days ago

        Bingo. My wife won’t vote for a woman president because she, not me, thinks that they’re too emotional. I know a decent amount of women in the workplace that feel the same way. I voted for Kamala because Trump is a paranoid narcissist that is a thief, liar, and can’t be trusted and she was a darn sight better to keep the boat moving predictably forward.

              • QuarterSwede@lemmy.world
                77·
                4 days ago

                Never said she voted for Trump. In fact, we don’t tell each other who we vote for. So yeah, try again. She’s typically strongly independent and really hates the two party system. RCV FTW.

                • PunnyName@lemmy.world
                  54·
                  3 days ago

                  My wife won’t vote for a woman president because she, not me, thinks that they’re too emotional.

                  This is directly from the Right’s playbook. She’s a moronic fascist.

                  Talk to her, and teach her the error of her ways. If you continue to be an apologist for a fascist, you might as well give up and join their ranks.

        • root_beer@midwest.socialEnglish
          412·
          4 days ago

          Women are too emotional to be president? Shit man, maga and their current figurehead are fueled by extremely volatile emotion, no matter how much they crow about facts vs feelings. Rage is an emotion, and it’s what’s driven the movement for years before it even had a name. Citing emotionality as a reason not to elect a woman is just an excuse—a very poor one, at that—and everyone knows it.

        • Eatspancakes84@lemmy.world
          231·
          4 days ago

          That’s rich. How could one ever think in this election that Kamala was the emotional one. She made one joke about his crowd size and he went completely off the rails.

      • Ajen
        273·
        4 days ago

        4B isn’t about asexuality, it’s about abstinence. Not the same thing.

        • njm1314@lemmy.world
          613·
          4 days ago

          From a physiological standpoint? Seems virtually the same to me. The other guy said it was unhealthy. Is there anything unhealthy about abstinence?

          • Ajen
            103·
            4 days ago

            The difference is that one is identity and the other is a choice.

            • njm1314@lemmy.world
              52·
              4 days ago

              Yes, no one is arguing that. The context was there’s no difference physiologically speaking. That was the premise.

              • Ajen
                82·
                4 days ago

                I think the distinction is important to some people.

                • njm1314@lemmy.world
                  62·
                  4 days ago

                  I have enough respect for those people to know they are smart enough to understand the distinction.

          • Vivian (they/them)@lemmy.blahaj.zone
            4·
            3 days ago

            They’re not necessarily the same, there’s two major differences between them physiologicaly:

            1. Asexual people date others unless they are also aromantic (well aromantic people also can date but it’s less common)
            2. Some asexual people can and do have sex
          • peopleproblems@lemmy.world
            62·
            4 days ago

            Asexuality doesn’t have the desire for sex.

            This is abstinence for those that would like to have sex but don’t feel safe.

    • BossDj@lemm.ee
      103·
      4 days ago

      The problem is that some men will literally tell a woman anything they want to hear until they’re in bed. They will lie their ass off and avoid political discussion until after the proposal, then they’ll suggest maybe she could cook a little more