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.

  • Ajen
    273·
    3 days ago

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

    • njm1314@lemmy.world
      613·
      3 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·
        3 days ago

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

        • njm1314@lemmy.world
          52·
          3 days ago

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

          • Ajen
            82·
            3 days ago

            I think the distinction is important to some people.

            • njm1314@lemmy.world
              62·
              3 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·
        3 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.