Summary

Following Donald Trump’s recent election victory, Google searches for “4B,” a South Korean feminist movement advocating a “no sex, no dating, no marriage, no children” stance, surged in the U.S.

The 4B movement, popular among young women on social media, promotes individual resistance against conservative politics and the erosion of reproductive rights.

The trend reflects a broader ideological divide between young men and women in the U.S., where women under 30 are significantly more liberal than men.

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    5 days ago

    Hmm so this movement excludes men that want abortion to be available then? Missed that.

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      I think the subtext implies that you can have sex with people that don’t suck. This is the female counterpart to, “don’t stick your dick in crazy”.

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          Taking into context that it’s to protest people against reproductive rights, I take it that it’s to punish and withhold specifically from those people.

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            5 days ago

            That is mentioned nowhere in this argument. But the credo of the movement is:

            No sex. No dating. No marrying men. No children.

            This sounds pretty intentionally absolute in nature

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      It’s about risk management, first and foremost.

      I suppose you might get a second look from a 4B-practitioner if you had a vasectomy (i.e. to remove the risk of pregnancy), but I’m a man so I can only speculate on this. And of course this isn’t such a great option if you do plan to have kids some day. Then again, despite the anti-abortion rhetoric of “don’t have sex if you aren’t ready to reproduce”, planned pregnancies are much more dangerous under abortion bans.

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      5 days ago

      Would you mind saying what you mean here? I’d like for you to explain your thought a little more.

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        I’m responding to “it doesn’t seem generalized at all”. If that were the case it would not be a movement based on absolutes that apply to all men