Trump’s win has lead some US women to want to swear off men completely, following sexist remarks he has made in the past, a sexual abuse case against him and his stance on abortion. A feminist movement sweeping South Korea, in which women are saying “No” to any form of intimate relationships with men, is taking hold in the United States following former President Donald Trump’s resounding victory in the presidential election. So what is the 4B movement and why are American women turning to it now? What is the 4B movement? The 4B movement originally emerged from the fringes of the South Korean feminist movement.
It developed in South Korean feminist circles and on social media in the mid-to-late 2010s during a wave of violence against women in the country, and in protest over other manifestations of sexism and inequality in South Korean society. 4B is shorthand for four words that start with “bi”, which means “no” in Korean. The movement calls for: Why did this movement emerge in South Korea? Women are fed up with the scale of male violence in South Korean society.
A report published in 2018 showed that in the previous nine years, at least 824 women in South Korea had been killed and a further 602 were put at risk of death by violence at the hands of their intimate partners. But there are also economic factors. According to data from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), South Korean men earn 31.
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