After Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, “which was fueled by male voters and which, for many, seemed like a referendum on reproductive rights”some young American women are talking about boycotting men, reports NPR.
The idea, American radio explains, comes from the South Korean movement known as “4B,” or the four “no”s (bi means “not” in Korean). He advocates refusing to date men (biyeonae), to have sex with men (bisexual), to marry heterosexually (bean) and to give birth to children (bichulsan).
Interest in the 4B movement grew in the United States in the days following the vote on Tuesday, November 5, with Google searches peaking and the hashtag appearing on social media.
“Self-protection”
This “radical feminist movement”, as described in New York Timesbegan to gain momentum in South Korea in 2019, “at a time when women were confronting long-standing disparities in women’s rights in their countries”and he “has further intensified during the 2021 elections in this country”.
In the United States, women are beginning to adopt such ideas on the Internet, “in a gesture of defiance and self-protection”notes the newspaper, which nevertheless considers that it is still “too early to know how popular such a position might become”.
“It’s time to close your uterus to men”explains a post on X that has gone viral, relayed by NPR. “This election proves more than ever that they hate us and proudly hate us. Don’t reward them.”
