American Women Discuss Boycotting Sex, Marriage With Men in Response to Trump Win

Since President-elect Donald Trump’s victory, many American women have discussed adopting the South Korean feminist 4B movement, in which women reject sex, marriage, dating, and childbirth with men.

The Details: Women have vented frustrations on platforms like Instagram and TikTok, accusing men of disrespecting women by participating in the election of Trump.

For Context: Exit polls showed that 54% of men voted for Trump, while 54% of women voted for Harris. The 4B movement emerged in South Korea during the latter half of the 2010s in reaction to what women saw as patriarchal issues such as a gender wage gap and workplace harassment. According to Wikipedia, 4B is also averse to transgender women, and in 2009, claimed it had 4,000 members.

Perspectives: CNN (Lean Left bias) quoted a 26-year-old woman who reportedly stopped engaging with men “a few years ago” and said, “Men need a wake-up call.” The New York Post (Lean Right bias) quoted a woman from a viral video where she was shaving her head and said, “F*** being skinny, f*** being hot, f** being all the things that the patriarchy wants us to be, ’cause clearly they don’t give a s*** about us.”

How the Media Covered It: CNN included more context on the movement's history and how it is being discussed in the current political climate. The Washington Post (Lean Left bias) described 4B as “fringe.” The New York Post highlighted social media posts and noted a recent Gallup study that found significantly more young women identify as "liberal" than men.