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By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Thursday, November 7, 2024
Making America Great Again may not work out so great for some American men in the bedroom.
A number of feminists are going on a sex strike in retaliation for Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
According to videos and social-media posts compiled and cited by the Daily Telegraph, liberal women are drawing inspiration from the South Korean “4B” movement, which commits women to four “no” behaviors toward men — dating, sex, marriage and children. (The Korean prefix for negative words is “bi.”)
Interest in the movement has spiked since Mr. Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, who not only would have been the first female U.S. president but who also sought to make the election a referendum on abortion.
“For the next four years I am going to abstain from sex with men,” said a woman in one TikTok video cited by the Telegraph.
Abortion was specifically cited by one woman who said “if all these men are voting to take our rights away, they don’t deserve to touch a woman for the next four years. So, hope you thought that through you guys.”
Another woman referring to Florida’s rejection of a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state and said “good luck getting laid. Especially in Florida, because me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement.”
In another TikTok video, the young woman not only vows to refuse sex but encourages others to delete dating apps.
“As a woman, my bodily autonomy matters and this is my way to exercise sovereignty over that,” she says. “I highly encourage any other women who are single and still care about progressing women’s rights and still fighting for our bodily autonomy to do the same. Delete your dating apps.”
She described the 4B movement as a “point of inspiration.”
Another video was captioned: “I think it’s time for American women to participate in our own 4B movement.”
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By Victor Morton - The Washington Times - Thursday, November 7, 2024
Making America Great Again may not work out so great for some American men in the bedroom.
A number of feminists are going on a sex strike in retaliation for Donald Trump’s presidential victory.
According to videos and social-media posts compiled and cited by the Daily Telegraph, liberal women are drawing inspiration from the South Korean “4B” movement, which commits women to four “no” behaviors toward men — dating, sex, marriage and children. (The Korean prefix for negative words is “bi.”)
Interest in the movement has spiked since Mr. Trump’s victory over Democrat Kamala Harris, who not only would have been the first female U.S. president but who also sought to make the election a referendum on abortion.
“For the next four years I am going to abstain from sex with men,” said a woman in one TikTok video cited by the Telegraph.
Abortion was specifically cited by one woman who said “if all these men are voting to take our rights away, they don’t deserve to touch a woman for the next four years. So, hope you thought that through you guys.”
Another woman referring to Florida’s rejection of a proposal to enshrine abortion rights in the state and said “good luck getting laid. Especially in Florida, because me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement.”
In another TikTok video, the young woman not only vows to refuse sex but encourages others to delete dating apps.
“As a woman, my bodily autonomy matters and this is my way to exercise sovereignty over that,” she says. “I highly encourage any other women who are single and still care about progressing women’s rights and still fighting for our bodily autonomy to do the same. Delete your dating apps.”
She described the 4B movement as a “point of inspiration.”
Another video was captioned: “I think it’s time for American women to participate in our own 4B movement.”
Copyright © 2024 The Washington Times, LLC. Click here for reprint permission.
The movement to swear off men: No sex. No dating. No marriage. No children.
In the days after Donald Trump was elected president, the 4B feminist movement is capturing young women’s interest on social media.
Young women on Instagram and TikTok are the primary demographic behind the recent American surge in interest in the 4B movement.
In the days after Donald Trump was elected president, the 4B feminist movement is capturing young women’s interest on social media.
Young women on Instagram and TikTok are the primary demographic behind the recent American surge in interest in the 4B movement.
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Mariel Padilla
General Assignment Reporter
Mariel Padilla
General Assignment Reporter
THE 19th
November 7, 2024
In the hours following former President Donald Trump’s election victory, Google searches related to 4B — a fringe South Korean feminist movement that made a name for itself in the mid to late 2010s — surged in the United States.
It’s called “4B” because “B” is a shorthand for the word “no” in Korean — and a series of “nos” is what the movement calls for.
No sex.
Young women on Instagram and TikTok are the primary demographic behind the recent American surge in interest. The idea behind the movement is individual resistance against what it defines as a conservative political environment and the corrosion of reproductive rights.
Michaela Thomas, a 21-year-old artist in Georgia, told The Washington Post that she first heard about the 4B movement about a year ago.
“Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion,” Thomas told The Post. “They can’t have both. Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us.”
The concept of a “sex strike” is not new. The ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” highlights women swearing off sex to protest the Peloponnesian War. In South Korea, the 4B movement took root at a time when the country was undergoing its own reckoning with gender violence and equality issues. (It is a country with one of the widest wage gaps in the world.)
In the United States, there is a growing ideological divide between young men and women: Women aged 18 to 30 are 30 percent more liberal than men of the same age, according to The Financial Times. Some experts point to the 2018 #MeToo movement as the key trigger in the rise in feminist values among women and the subsequent backlash among young men.
November 7, 2024
In the hours following former President Donald Trump’s election victory, Google searches related to 4B — a fringe South Korean feminist movement that made a name for itself in the mid to late 2010s — surged in the United States.
It’s called “4B” because “B” is a shorthand for the word “no” in Korean — and a series of “nos” is what the movement calls for.
No sex.
Young women on Instagram and TikTok are the primary demographic behind the recent American surge in interest. The idea behind the movement is individual resistance against what it defines as a conservative political environment and the corrosion of reproductive rights.
Michaela Thomas, a 21-year-old artist in Georgia, told The Washington Post that she first heard about the 4B movement about a year ago.
“Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion,” Thomas told The Post. “They can’t have both. Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us.”
The concept of a “sex strike” is not new. The ancient Greek play “Lysistrata” highlights women swearing off sex to protest the Peloponnesian War. In South Korea, the 4B movement took root at a time when the country was undergoing its own reckoning with gender violence and equality issues. (It is a country with one of the widest wage gaps in the world.)
In the United States, there is a growing ideological divide between young men and women: Women aged 18 to 30 are 30 percent more liberal than men of the same age, according to The Financial Times. Some experts point to the 2018 #MeToo movement as the key trigger in the rise in feminist values among women and the subsequent backlash among young men.
No sex, no babies: 4B Movement goes viral after Donald Trump US election win
Searches for this term you’ve probably never heard of have spiked in the wake of Donald Trump winning the US election.
Chantelle Francis
November 8, 2024
Interest in a radical feminist movement where women refuse to date, get married, have sex with men or have children appears to have skyrocketed since Donald Trump won the 2024 US election.
Google Trends shows searches for “4B Movement” in the country shot up after the Republican’s victory.
“This finally flipped a switch in me, I’m going full 4B Movement and I mean it” and “4B Movement is my answer” are among comments garnering thousands of likes on TikTok videos reacting to the election result.
Searches for this term you’ve probably never heard of have spiked in the wake of Donald Trump winning the US election.
Chantelle Francis
November 8, 2024
Interest in a radical feminist movement where women refuse to date, get married, have sex with men or have children appears to have skyrocketed since Donald Trump won the 2024 US election.
Google Trends shows searches for “4B Movement” in the country shot up after the Republican’s victory.
“This finally flipped a switch in me, I’m going full 4B Movement and I mean it” and “4B Movement is my answer” are among comments garnering thousands of likes on TikTok videos reacting to the election result.
Google Trends data shows searches for ‘4B Movement’ shot up after the election.
One video of a young American woman crying, which encourages women to join the movement has been liked by more than 200,000 people and viewed 1.4 million times.
“Me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement, that’s my next plan,” said another woman in a clip with more than 170,000 likes and 1.2 million views.
“If you thought you were involuntarily celibate before, wait until see you what women are like when they realise that having one of your babies could cost them their life,” one creator with more than 600,000 followers said in a video under the hashtag #4bmovement.
“Doing my part as an American woman by breaking up with my Republican boyfriend last night and officially joining the 4B movement this morning,” said one on TikTok with a whopping 1.7 million likes and more than 9 million views.
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The 4B Movement originated in South Korea and protests misogyny and gender-based violence.
Abortion rights is one of the main issues Americans highlight when suggesting they will join the 4B Movement.
Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that ruled the constitutional right to abortion in the US in 1973, was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, paving the way for states to ban abortions.
Three of the Supreme Court justices that voted to overturn Roe were appointed by Mr Trump.
In a post on his social media network last year, the president-elect took credit, writing: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.”
He added: “Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.”
The president can have a major impact on abortion policy in the US.
It is unclear what Mr Trump may do in the next four years.
Some advocates of abortion rights fear a Republican-controlled Congress could enact a nationwide ban. The Republicans won control of the Senate but control over the House hangs in the balance (both chambers make up Congress).
Some fear a ban on shipping abortion pills, which account for about two-thirds of abortions in the country.
The National Women's March in Washington, DC, just days before the election on November 2, 2024. Picture: Allison Robbert / AFP
One video of a young American woman crying, which encourages women to join the movement has been liked by more than 200,000 people and viewed 1.4 million times.
“Me and my girlies are participating in the 4B movement, that’s my next plan,” said another woman in a clip with more than 170,000 likes and 1.2 million views.
“If you thought you were involuntarily celibate before, wait until see you what women are like when they realise that having one of your babies could cost them their life,” one creator with more than 600,000 followers said in a video under the hashtag #4bmovement.
“Doing my part as an American woman by breaking up with my Republican boyfriend last night and officially joining the 4B movement this morning,” said one on TikTok with a whopping 1.7 million likes and more than 9 million views.
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The 4B Movement originated in South Korea and protests misogyny and gender-based violence.
Abortion rights is one of the main issues Americans highlight when suggesting they will join the 4B Movement.
Roe v. Wade, a landmark decision that ruled the constitutional right to abortion in the US in 1973, was overturned by the Supreme Court in 2022, paving the way for states to ban abortions.
Three of the Supreme Court justices that voted to overturn Roe were appointed by Mr Trump.
In a post on his social media network last year, the president-elect took credit, writing: “After 50 years of failure, with nobody coming even close, I was able to kill Roe v. Wade.”
He added: “Without me the pro Life movement would have just kept losing.”
The president can have a major impact on abortion policy in the US.
It is unclear what Mr Trump may do in the next four years.
Some advocates of abortion rights fear a Republican-controlled Congress could enact a nationwide ban. The Republicans won control of the Senate but control over the House hangs in the balance (both chambers make up Congress).
Some fear a ban on shipping abortion pills, which account for about two-thirds of abortions in the country.
The National Women's March in Washington, DC, just days before the election on November 2, 2024. Picture: Allison Robbert / AFPReproductive rights supporters during the march in Arizona, which would go on to pass a ballot referendum to establish a fundamental right to the procedure on election day. Picture: Rebecca Noble / AFP
Kamala Harris campaigned on the key message that women should make decisions about their own bodies.
She vowed to never allow a national abortion ban become law and promised to support a bill restoring Roe’s protections.
Voters in 10 states – a record number – had to decide on amending their state constitutions with abortion protections this election. Seven states passed an amendment, lifting abortion bans in two states (Missouri and Arizona) and expanding access in others.
Mr Trump’s home state of Florida was one of the three states where the ballot referendum failed. If it was to have been successful, it would have provided a constitutional right to abortion before foetal viability or when “necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider”. The other two states were Nebraska and South Dakota.
Kamala Harris campaigned on the key message that women should make decisions about their own bodies.
She vowed to never allow a national abortion ban become law and promised to support a bill restoring Roe’s protections.
Voters in 10 states – a record number – had to decide on amending their state constitutions with abortion protections this election. Seven states passed an amendment, lifting abortion bans in two states (Missouri and Arizona) and expanding access in others.
Mr Trump’s home state of Florida was one of the three states where the ballot referendum failed. If it was to have been successful, it would have provided a constitutional right to abortion before foetal viability or when “necessary to protect the patient’s health, as determined by the patient’s healthcare provider”. The other two states were Nebraska and South Dakota.
Women react as Kamala Harris speaks for the first time after Donald Trump’s victory. Picture: Angela Weiss / AFP
Exit polls showed female voters leaned toward Ms Harris but not enough.
Picture: Kevin Dietsch/Getty Images/AFP
In addition to abortion rights, those furious with Mr Trump’s victory and now sharing the 4B Movement have been vocal about his infamous history with women.
Mr Trump became the first former US president with a criminal conviction in May after a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of fraud by falsifying business records to cover up payments of $200,000 ($US130,000) to porn star Stormy Daniels.
It was alleged Mr Trump wanted to buy her silence about an alleged extramarital sexual encounter, which was in danger of becoming public knowledge in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. Paying to keep stories quiet isn’t illegal but falsifying business records is.
Last year, a jury in New York found Mr Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s. The verdict in the civil trial is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.
Less than two weeks before the election, former swimsuit model Stacey Williams did an interview with The Washington Post about allegations that Mr Trump groped her in the early 1990s in front of Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the allegation was “unequivocally false”. Mr Trump has denied numerous allegations of sexual misconduct from other women.
CNN exit polls showed female voters leaned toward Ms Harris, and male voters leaned toward Mr Trump, but as the outlet reported, Ms Harris’ edge among women this year did not exceed either Joe Biden’s in 2020 or Hillary Clinton’s in 2016.
In addition to abortion rights, those furious with Mr Trump’s victory and now sharing the 4B Movement have been vocal about his infamous history with women.
Mr Trump became the first former US president with a criminal conviction in May after a jury found him guilty on all 34 counts of fraud by falsifying business records to cover up payments of $200,000 ($US130,000) to porn star Stormy Daniels.
It was alleged Mr Trump wanted to buy her silence about an alleged extramarital sexual encounter, which was in danger of becoming public knowledge in the run up to the 2016 presidential election. Paying to keep stories quiet isn’t illegal but falsifying business records is.
Last year, a jury in New York found Mr Trump liable for sexually abusing writer E. Jean Carroll in a department store in the 1990s. The verdict in the civil trial is the first time Mr Trump has been found legally responsible for a sexual assault.
Less than two weeks before the election, former swimsuit model Stacey Williams did an interview with The Washington Post about allegations that Mr Trump groped her in the early 1990s in front of Jeffrey Epstein.
Mr Trump’s national press secretary Karoline Leavitt said the allegation was “unequivocally false”. Mr Trump has denied numerous allegations of sexual misconduct from other women.
CNN exit polls showed female voters leaned toward Ms Harris, and male voters leaned toward Mr Trump, but as the outlet reported, Ms Harris’ edge among women this year did not exceed either Joe Biden’s in 2020 or Hillary Clinton’s in 2016.
