Since Donald Trump’s election win, a feminist movement is sweeping the US in which women refuse to marry, have children, date or have sex with men.
Young women enraged by Donald Trump’s presidential win have taken to social media to share the radical movement known as 4B – this stands for ‘four no’s’ in South Korea, where the trend originated from.
The four components are: no dating, no sex with men, no marriage and no children. Many women have also taken to shaving off their hair, ditching makeup and avoiding any social interaction with men altogether.
Trump’s November election victory has now seen the 4B movement become one of the top search trends on Google in the United States, with users on social media platforms TikTok, Facebook and Instagram posting an increasing number of videos.
Google searches have also spiked in Turkey and Malaysia, while women in India, Pakistan, Egypt and Brazil are calling for similar movements there too.
The furious women partaking in the movement claim they are fed up with their male counterparts who voted for Trump after his appointment of three conservative Supreme Court justices led to the overturning of national abortion rights protections.
One X user posted: “Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline.
“We can’t let these men have the last laugh… we need to bite back.”
Another person agreed with this, saying: “Women reclaiming control could send a powerful message,” with a third outraged user adding “if South Korean women can successfully do this, it is not impossible”.
The 4B movement started in South Korea in 2015 which was popular among young women in their 20s. An assistant professor in gender studies at the University of California has pinpointed the start of 4B as a follow on from the #MeToo movement and other issues affecting women in the country such as gender inequality regarding pay.
Despite being one the world’s most advanced economies, women in South Korea are paid about one-third less than men, according to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development – the highest wage gap among OECD nations.
Over the years, the movement has splintered into wider issues affecting women, now reaching the United States.
