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What is the 4B movement? Trump's win has some women swearing off men
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Posted on 11/08/2024 6:54:09 AM PST by TigerClaws

For many women, the 2024 presidential election was rooted in reproductive rights -- with President-elect Donald Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris' campaigns offering two very different visions for abortion access in America.

From "childless cat lady" comments to "my body, my choice" chants, the divide on women's reproductive rights became a cornerstone of the election.

In the wake of Trump's victory on Tuesday, and with anti-abortion initiatives passing in several states, a South Korean feminist movement that advocates for women to swear off men and childbirth entirely has become abuzz on social media.

"Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline," wrote one X user in a post that had over 460,000 likes.

The 4B movement, which gained fringe popularity in South Korea in 2019, calls for women to abstain from sex, dating, marriage and having children with men. What does 4B stand for?

The name 4B is shorthand for Korean words starting with "bi" which translates to "no," according to a paper on the movement published by researchers at South Korea's Yonsei University.

Bihon: The refusal of heterosexual marriage Bichulsan: The refusal of childbirth Biyeonae: The refusal of dating men Bisekseu: the rejection of heterosexual sexual relationships as a whole

"The 4B movement encompasses not only criticisms of the pro-natalist turn in state policy and protests against it, but also various forms of self-help discussions and practices that are explicitly oriented towards women's individual futures," researchers wrote.

The movement rose to popularity around the same time as South Korea's conservative President Yoon Seok-yeol was elected.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: abortion
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1 posted on 11/08/2024 6:54:09 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: TigerClaws

No worries here ;0)


2 posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:11 AM PST by conservativepoet
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To: TigerClaws

Perhaps no one wanted you anyways?

Totally undesirable. And that’s OK.


4 posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:47 AM PST by Blueflag (To not carry is to choose to be defenseless.)
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To: TigerClaws

Darwin.


5 posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:54 AM PST by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: TigerClaws

Sounds pretty much like a bunch of angry lesbians, and angry lesbians swearing off men seems very much like a “who cares” moment.


6 posted on 11/08/2024 6:55:57 AM PST by Bruce Campbells Chin ( )
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To: TigerClaws

In a few years these childless lonely women will be wondering what happened in despair when no one is interested in dating and marrying them.


7 posted on 11/08/2024 6:56:40 AM PST by gunnut
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To: TigerClaws

Ahhhhh....Men like choice...No Problem


8 posted on 11/08/2024 6:56:51 AM PST by Sacajaweau
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To: TigerClaws

Another role replaced by robots.


9 posted on 11/08/2024 6:56:56 AM PST by glorgau
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To: TigerClaws

Good. This would get the crazies off the market. Unattached men need to learn to not stick their d*cks in crazy.


10 posted on 11/08/2024 6:57:38 AM PST by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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Here’s the level of nuttery if you wanted to know....

https://jessica.substack.com/p/the-fury-gap

“If men thought I was mean to them before this, then they really aren’t gonna like me now.”

“Switching teams from annoying feminist to evil misandrist after the election.”

“Get ready for me to become the most unbearable woman you’ll ever meet.”

And then there’s this: In the hours after Trump was elected, Google search term interest in the ‘4B movement’ spiked—that’s a South Korean feminist term for women who swear off sex, marriage and childbirth with men.

I don’t think that’s a passing fad or empty threat.

Even before Roe was overturned, American women were getting married later and less. Knowing that so many of their male cohort voted for the serial abuser who stripped them of their rights isn’t likely to reverse this trend.

And let’s be clear: It’s not women who will suffer as a result of any Lysistrata-type protest.


11 posted on 11/08/2024 6:57:39 AM PST by TigerClaws
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To: glorgau

Or hot conservative women.


12 posted on 11/08/2024 6:57:48 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: TigerClaws

:offering a pair of scissors: “Here. You can use these to spite your face.”


13 posted on 11/08/2024 6:57:48 AM PST by Clioman
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To: TigerClaws

Just illustrates how social media makes girls with mental illness even worse.


14 posted on 11/08/2024 6:58:53 AM PST by 1Old Pro
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To: TigerClaws

I have a solution for unbearable women. I laugh at them and mock them and walk away. That infuriates them even more.


15 posted on 11/08/2024 6:59:22 AM PST by Resolute Conservative
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To: TigerClaws
SHUT-IT-DOWN
16 posted on 11/08/2024 6:59:27 AM PST by The Louiswu (Pray for Peace in the world.)
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To: TigerClaws

There’s always something.


17 posted on 11/08/2024 6:59:33 AM PST by webheart
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To: TigerClaws

Actually, these are primarily the women advocating abortion up to the moment of birth, so not much will change. And generally men who both recognize that with lose morals they are “easy” but not with the crazy that goes with it.


18 posted on 11/08/2024 6:59:53 AM PST by JWNM
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To: TigerClaws

So how is this any different than what the angry liberal lesbians and pseudo lesbians have been doing for the last 20 years?


19 posted on 11/08/2024 7:01:00 AM PST by John O (God Save America (Please))
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To: TigerClaws

Go after Latina’s!

They don’t mind having babies and many are beautiful, problem solved...


20 posted on 11/08/2024 7:01:57 AM PST by CalTexan
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