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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#inform #resist #improve

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64 points

Understandable.

But sweaering of ALL men is neither healthy nor realistic and the 4B movement is not really helping the issue. Plua the movement is extremely transphobic and essentialist. Its just TERFs doing a thing again…

A more practical solution: Dont date MAGA and leave them if need be. Take the children from them as well. They deserve scorn for voting in a dictator, just because they cant get laid. And they deserve to be reminded on how parhetic they are for all of it every single das until they change.

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57 points

Agreed. I also can understand the feelings behind this, but it seems to ignore that quite a number of women voted for Trump.

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Bingo. My wife won’t vote for a woman president because she, not me, thinks that they’re too emotional. I know a decent amount of women in the workplace that feel the same way. I voted for Kamala because Trump is a paranoid narcissist that is a thief, liar, and can’t be trusted and she was a darn sight better to keep the boat moving predictably forward.

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Your wife is a moron

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Women are too emotional to be president? Shit man, maga and their current figurehead are fueled by extremely volatile emotion, no matter how much they crow about facts vs feelings. Rage is an emotion, and it’s what’s driven the movement for years before it even had a name. Citing emotionality as a reason not to elect a woman is just an excuse—a very poor one, at that—and everyone knows it.

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That’s rich. How could one ever think in this election that Kamala was the emotional one. She made one joke about his crowd size and he went completely off the rails.

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20 points

There’s nothing inherently unhealthy about being asexual.

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This is not just being asexual. This incel behaviour.

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27 points

It’s called celibacy, and it’s voluntary in this context.

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Incel = involuntary celibacy

These women are volunteering to be celibate.

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Wow you don’t understand what incels are at all do you?

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4B isn’t about asexuality, it’s about abstinence. Not the same thing.

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From a physiological standpoint? Seems virtually the same to me. The other guy said it was unhealthy. Is there anything unhealthy about abstinence?

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The problem is that some men will literally tell a woman anything they want to hear until they’re in bed. They will lie their ass off and avoid political discussion until after the proposal, then they’ll suggest maybe she could cook a little more

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Downvoted for advocating taking men’s children away.

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This is a GREAT idea!

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Sounds like a great way to ensure that conservatives are the only ones having kids. This is just liberal women organizing their own extinction.

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Have you not been paying attention to practically every progressive issue in the last decade? Pretty sure the people actually making decisions about what gets promoted on social media aren’t your friends.

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You’re getting downvoted but it’s the logical end.

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13 points

Only if you assume a person can’t possibly have different political views from their parents’. It’s certainly more difficult, I’ll give you that, but it does happen.

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27 points

The other option is to have daughters with increasingly fewer freedoms than us. Fuck that noise.

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20 points

Yup. I want kids, but I’m leaning towards not having kids due to, well… gestures broadly

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Why the fuck would I want to inflict this world on a child?

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Wouldn’t this make it even worse? This is basically ensure that an ever greater % of people grow up right wing, so that Republicans can stay in power longer with more extreme ideas

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women are more than baby incubating machines, holy shit

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I didn’t say they were. I certainly believe that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body, and if some women choose not to have children, that’s their right, as far as I’m concerned. But, the fact of the matter is, if women aren’t having children, before too long there won’t be any more people. It’s really as simple as that.

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I certainly believe that a woman can do whatever she wants with her body

sorry but I find that a bit hard to believe when your previous comment is basically saying that women should breed to ensure the survival of their ideology

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While parents certainly have an influence on their children’s ideologies and political leanings, it isn’t deterministic. Those children do still have agency, and external factors such as education (which yes, I know is under attack) and urbanization matter. Or even just simple youthful rebelliousness.

Regardless, I wouldn’t advocate left-leaning people to have more kids in some ill-advised attempt at a reproductive arms race. Among other issues, we are still staring in the face of environmental collapse.

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I wouldn’t count on spontaneous liberal epiphanies and teenage rebellion to preserve the liberal hegemony.

I’m not necessarily advocating for anything. If you don’t want to have kids, don’t have kids. I’m certainly not going to mourn the death of liberalism, but I’m not thrilled about Conservativism taking its place as the dominant ideology.

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“Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion,” Thomas told The Post. “They can’t have both. Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us.”

Sounds reasonable and fair to me.

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An awful lot of generalizing there.

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It’s talking about people who support trump. But you can’t only target them as people will just hide their political views to get laid.

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I don’t think anyone involved thinks she’s talking about every single young man. Well, except you, of course

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37 points

Now he’s just worried that they’re talking about him. Which they probably are considering his immediate defensive reaction.

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I’m definitely not young. I’ve pretending to know me though.

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“Young men…” wow I wonder where that idea came from

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15 points

Did the hat fit you?

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I voted for Kamala thanks.

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In over 50% of America’s land area Rapists get to pick the mother of their child.

Flee red states.

The only why they’ll learn is if the rational people leave. The whole fill strategy will never work because red states need you more than you need them.

Flee red states!

Project 2025 advocates for tracking of child barring age women and girls. They will turn you into brood sows the moment they get a chance and justify it as the moral good.

Flee red states!

Blue states aren’t perfect but we at least know what freedom is and don’t need a 2000 yeast old book to decide what we should do next.

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Fleeing my state isn’t an option. Besides, my state didn’t used to be red. A lot of states flipped or at least went from purple to red. So it’s not even a guarantee if you uproot your entire family and life that you get to stay blue.

I feel so demoralized when this comes up, as if it’s my own fault I’m living somewhere with terrible laws. I voted. I got other people to vote. I changed a few minds on abortion (not easy to do!). I don’t have the money or resources to start somewhere else, and we’re all about to have less money.

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Are you willing to risk your mother’s, sisters, and daughters bodily autonomy on a under performing political party?

I’m not saying leaving will be easy. And I’m not saying it paradise and blue States. But I am saying red states don’t deserve you. Start making a plan at least because they won’t stop.

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