Some American women are adapting the 4b movement from South Korea in response to Trump winning the election.

 

A Kamala Harris supporter at a rally. Sky News/AP.

Some American women are adapting the 4b movement from South Korea in response to Donald Trump winning the election. Sky News. The movement is from South Korea and advises women to avoid the four B's, dating, sex, pregnancy and marriage, for political purposes. 4b is a reference to the word "no" in Korean, which starts with "Bi". Harris focused her campaign on abortion, but failed when she bled male support. Harris still won the majority of women, but lost the critical White woman vote 53% to 45%. In response to the failure of the campaign, some woman on social media are saying they will follow the 4b movement and some have gone so far as to shave their heads to protest the election results. 

My Comment:

This is as tale as old as time as the Lysistrata gambit has been a thing since Ancient Greece. The idea that men can control women through sex is certainly an old one but it is hilarious that this is happening right now. It's not going to work for what should be obvious reasons. 

The 4b movement in South Korea is something I have heard of before and it appears to have an effect there. The gender war in South Korea is dramatically worse than it is here in the United States and a lot more women are on board with these kind of radical ideas. But I don't think it actually accomplished anything but to make relations between men and women worse. 

But in America? It won't accomplish a thing. Women are a lot more divided here and there are a huge number of women that actually supported Donald Trump and voted for him. Indeed, this will make things easier for men that want to avoid dating liberal women, which are generally seen as low status among men anyways. Having them take themselves out of the dating pool is a plus.

And this will obviously backfire if it does take off because the men it's actually going to hurt? It's liberal men that will be affected by this. Politically most people date people that agree with them. Some folks do make a go at it, but the vast majority of the men that this would affect are already on board with the liberal project in the first place. Indeed, this could end up pushing those men away since I think a decent portion are only involved in liberal politics in the first place so they can date women. 

It's also pretty sexist to assume that the only thing that matters to men is sex. I know for a fact that you could have thrown all the women at me you could and it still wouldn't have changed my vote for Trump. It's a thing called self control and most men have it. 

Though I do think it's funny that some folks are melting down like this, it is sad that the media worked these women up into this frenzy in the first place. Abortion is not going to be banned nationally, Trump has no interest in it. He said he was going to leave it up to the states and would veto an abortion ban. And the states are deciding it themselves. There were several abortion statutes passed in several states, so that's the actual solution to the supposed problem. It's so bizarre to see women in blue states that are losing their minds over this, why on earth do they think anything is going to happen? 

But in the end I think this will probably burn out pretty quickly. The culture is absolutely changing and I think that being seen as a liberal is going to be pretty low status. And it's really only the single issue abortion voters that are even acting this way in the first place. That's not anywhere near the majority of women, and this won't be anywhere near universal among them. Sooner or later folks will get distracted by something else.