A life without men: women’s revenge on Donald Trump’s election victory

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A life without men? Many women in South Korea can imagine this well. They are tired of inequality in their country and prefer to forgo sex, marriage and children. After Trump’s election victory, a similar trend known as the 4B movement developed in the United States.

A user’s Tiktok video received about 1.8 million likes in which she said after Trump’s election victory that she had ended her relationship and was now joining the 4B movement. “I did my part as an American woman by breaking up with my Republican boyfriend and now officially belonging to the 4B movement,” the young woman explains.

4B movement in response to Trump’s election victory
The 4B movement, which emerged in South Korea in the late 2010s, has been gaining attention on social media – most recently in the US following Donald Trump’s election victory. What initially seems radical is a response to deep-rooted social problems that encourages many women to stand up for their self-determination.

The movement is based on four principles, all of which start with “bi” (no) in Korean: no to straight men, no to straight marriages, no to childbirth and no to dating. It emerged in feminist circles online in the mid-2010s in response to a femicide in which a man stabbed a woman because he “felt ignored by women.”

Political polarization in South Korea
South Korea’s birth rate is one of the lowest in the world, which is a major issue for the government. In 2016, it even published a map showing the number of women of childbearing age per province. Yet many South Korean women – even outside the 4B movement – ​​do not want to have children.

South Korean women are under enormous social pressure. According to a 2015 survey, 80 percent of respondents – mostly women – had experienced sexual harassment in the workplace. Moreover, the gender pay gap in no other OECD country is as large as in South Korea, at 31.2 percent. In the World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, South Korea ranks 94th out of 146 countries; Nowhere else are so many women murdered as there.

South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol openly supports misogynistic policies and blames feminist movements for the country’s economic problems. He plans to abolish the Ministry of Gender Equality because it treats men as “potential sexual predators”. With this controversial rhetoric he managed to score points, especially among young men, and win the elections. This social polarization has contributed significantly to the rise of the 4B movement.

Radical resistance by women
However, the movement goes beyond just rejecting men. It aims to encourage women to create their own space and show solidarity with each other, in order to counterbalance existing social structures.

Thanks to the internet, the movement’s ideas also found acceptance in the US after Trump’s election victory. Google searches for “4B” increased 450 percent the day after the election. Many supporters see this as an ideal moment to oppose Trump’s misogynistic policies.

Some are amplifying the movement’s original ideas: in view of uncertain abortion rights, some recommend undergoing a collective hysterectomy, that is, being sterilized by removing the uterus.

Contraceptive boom in the US
Since Trump’s election victory, online providers have also recorded a sharp increase in the number of orders for the morning-after pill. According to reports, orders for the emergency contraceptive ‘Restart’ increased by 966 percent within 60 hours of the election victory compared to the previous week – the majority of orders were for multipacks, as US media reported.

Other contraceptives are also on the rise: the number of requests for appointments to insert an IUD has increased by 760 percent. The number of requests for vasectomies is also increasing by 1,200 percent.

Nearly two years ago, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned the right to abortion, which had existed for nearly fifty years, in what was seen as a political earthquake. Through several new appointments during his first term, Donald Trump shifted the court’s majority significantly to the right, making this decision possible.

It is now up to the states to decide abortion rights, and in many of these states abortions are now largely banned. Abortion advocates fear that laws will be further tightened if Trump enters the White House.

Source: Krone

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