After Donald Trump’s victory in the US presidential election, a feminist movement originating from South Korea has been gaining momentum on social media.
Kamala Harris has taken steps aimed at protecting existing abortion rights or expanding abortion rights on the ballots in 10 US states, focusing specifically on abortion rights to gain women’s votes. He devoted much of his campaign to
According to exit polls, she won a majority of the American women’s vote, as expected, but it was still not enough to win the presidency.
The winner, Donald Trump, expressed mixed messages about his position on abortion during the campaign, but three of his Supreme Court nominees are determined to overturn Roe v. Wade in 2022 and ensure that women have abortions. was part of the majority that deprived them of their legal right to seek.
After his second election victory, some women began talking about joining the 4B movement. The movement is an unofficial organization from South Korea that aims to encourage women to sever sexual relations with men as a protest against misogyny and oppression.
4B received minimal attention on social media in the U.S. just before the election, but interest spiked after Trump’s victory, with more than 50,000 mentions of X from U.S. accounts on November 6th. It was done. Since Election Day, X’s post mentioning 4B has been viewed more than 1 million times, potentially reaching more than 45 million accounts.
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“I will concede in elections, but not in battle.”
Its exact origins are unknown, but it is thought to have started around the time conservative President Yoon Seok-yeol was elected in 2019.
Although it started as a small movement, it has spread across Asia and the world and has become a popular topic on social media.
According to journalist Anna Louie Sussman, who covered the movement for The Cut last year, 4B is an abbreviation for four Korean words that all begin with the letter “bi,” meaning “no.”
These are four words that are essentially the pledge of this movement.
• Bihon: Rejection of heterosexual marriage.
• Bichurusan: Refusal to give birth.
• Beyoung Ae: Refrain from dating men
• Bisex: Rejection of all sexual relations between the opposite sex.
Some women who consider themselves part of this movement shave their heads and refuse to wear makeup as a way to distance themselves from society’s sexism against women.
One tweet posted on Nov. 6 with hundreds of thousands of likes urged women in the U.S. to “start considering the 4B movement just like Korean women, and bring serious concerns to the U.S.” “We cannot do that,” he added, “leading to a sharp decline in the birth rate.” Let these guys have the last laugh…we need to fight back. ”
How did women vote in the US election?
According to an exit poll conducted by Sky News’ US partner NBC News, women made up 53% of all eligible voters.
A majority of female voters, 53%, voted for Harris, while 45% voted for Trump. Among men, 55% supported Trump and 42% voted for Harris.
But Harris actually received less support from women in the 2024 election than Democrat Joe Biden, who won 55% of the women’s vote in 2020. compared to Trump’s 43%.
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According to the Center for American Women and Politics at Rutgers University, experts point to the fact that a majority of women have preferred the Democratic candidate in every presidential election since 1996, and her level of support from women has increased. He says it’s nothing noteworthy.
The poll also found that 53% of white women, who make up 37% of eligible voters, voted for Trump and 45% for Harris.
Women of other races voted more for Harris, especially black women, who cast 91% of the votes, but only 7% of the total electorate.
