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US women vow not to have sex as part of 4B revenge against men for Trump win

US women vow not to have sex as part of 4B revenge against men for Trump win

donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 US elections It didn’t go so well for millions of women in the United States. And thousands of American women have joined the 4B movement, blaming men for Trump’s victory and vowing not to have sex, not to have affairs, not to marry, and not to give birth as revenge and protest. The 4B movement originated in South Korea and is on the rise in the United States as Trump sweeps the 2024 presidential election.

Kamala Harris’ Democratic wing painted Trump’s anti-feminist image.

Several American women posted videos in which they can be seen teary-eyed about Trump’s victory.

Now they are moving to 4D movement.

The name 4B comes from 4 numbers. B is short for the word no in Korean. This movement came to South Korea after the MeToo and ‘escape the corset’ movements.

The 4B movement was not a passing fad in South Korea, and its impact on Korean society was remarkable.

In 2021, South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said such moves “obstruct healthy relationships” between men and women in South Korea, CBC reported.

According to a report by The New York Times, the birth rate in South Korea is falling and the 4B movement has a role in this.

MANY WOMEN IN THE USA SAY NO TO SEX, MARRIAGE, CHILDREN AND Dating

Now women in the US are taking it on.

“Women started thinking about how the government, the state, and men were failing them,” Meera Choi, a doctoral candidate in Yale University’s sociology department, told NBC.

This comes after many women hoped Kamala Harris would win the US election, which would protect their reproductive rights.

All polls also showed how women support Harris and men supported Trump.

One woman wrote: “4B is a women’s liberation movement surrounding the protection of our reproductive system (from historically oppressive men). There is no place for male-centered women, especially those who insist on prioritizing feminine men’s feelings over women’s freedom.” .

The search rate for the 4B movement is also increasing in the USA.

“Search interest in the 4B movement, a radical feminist movement that started in South Korea in which women refuse to marry, have sex, and bear children with men, has skyrocketed today,” said one user on X.

Women in the United States feel their voices were not heard in the elections.

“After this election where women have been told to their faces that almost no one cares about them, remember ladies, we have the power. And you know what kind of power I’m talking about. Giving our bodies to men is a choice. “We don’t have to do this,” he added.

There is a section of women in the USA who criticize women participating in the 4B movement.

“Not a single man loses sleep because you don’t want to sleep with them. Not one of them,” said one person who uses LibertyValkyrie’s X-arm.

“The best way to understand 4D and similar social media trends is as a way for young women to create a romantic narrative arc for themselves, where only a man who has proven himself can reluctantly knock the heroine off her perch,” another user wrote. , published from the handle webdevMason.

WHY DID THE MOVEMENT BECOME POPULAR IN SOUTH KOREA?

In South Korea, the movement came after the MeToo movement. This also came after the breakout of the corset movement, which involved women’s androgynous dressing. They cut their hair short and even shaved their heads.

According to Vox’s report, the 4B movement states that it has 4,000 followers.

South Korean society adheres to strict gender norms and set beauty standards.

The most important turning point was when two women in South Korea were accused of spreading the MERS (Middle East Respiratory Syndrome coronavirus) epidemic through a smear campaign.

They were called “selfish” and “frivolous”.

This is when women started to come together and say they wanted to stick to the 4Bs.

In 2018, protests escalated in Seoul and across South Korea following the imprisonment of a woman who photographed a naked male model in art class after he refused to cover his genitals.

This was done to embarrass him.

After this, protests broke out.

While the movement has had a broad impact in South Korea, it is now spreading across the United States.

“We can’t let these guys have the last laugh, we have to stand up to this,” said a woman on channel X

The rise of the 4D movement in the USA is actually The continuation of the relentless struggle between the sexes This was seen during the Trump vs Harris campaign. How long and to what extent the movement will affect American society will be confirmed in the coming years. What is clear for now is that American women took Trump’s victory personally and are taking it out on male voters.

Posted by:

Priyanjali Narayan

Publication Date:

9 November 2024