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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      8 days ago

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

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        8 days ago

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

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          Jesus Fucking Christ, do we literally have to have women say things like:

          “Young men – not all, just some, well in some areas most, but a lot of young men – expect…”

          This tiptoeing bullshit to not anger some fragile men is insane. I lived as a straight man for over 40 years and this new idea that men are somehow put upon whenever a woman brings up being objectified, or has an issues with interactions with /takes a breath some, but not all, just a large amount, enough to be traumatizing, particularly as it’s systemic to the patriarchy, men.

          This is ridiculous semantic bullshit in response to women feeling like objects and pushing back.

          We’re better than this, and I’m tired of watching us act absolutely horrible whenever women point out systemic, extremely frequent issues they have with men, and have to inch around it so as to not break our fragile egos.

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            I agree. It’s like the whole “Not all men” deal: nitpicking the details of the phrasing instead of tackling the root issue. You’re only fighting those symptoms that affect you directly, not the root cause.

            The day I have someone yelling in my face that I’m to blame for some other man’s rape is the day I’ll argue about that issue. Until then, let’s focus on the actual problem: In this case (some) young men being pieces of garbage.

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      It doesn’t seem generalized at all to me.

      • A series of laws are passed that make this thing riskier.
      • Do less of the risky thing.
      • Make it clear why.

      What’s the problem?

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        Hmm so this movement excludes men that want abortion to be available then? Missed that.

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          I think the subtext implies that you can have sex with people that don’t suck. This is the female counterpart to, “don’t stick your dick in crazy”.

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              Taking into context that it’s to protest people against reproductive rights, I take it that it’s to punish and withhold specifically from those people.

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                8 days ago

                That is mentioned nowhere in this argument. But the credo of the movement is:

                No sex. No dating. No marrying men. No children.

                This sounds pretty intentionally absolute in nature

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          It’s about risk management, first and foremost.

          I suppose you might get a second look from a 4B-practitioner if you had a vasectomy (i.e. to remove the risk of pregnancy), but I’m a man so I can only speculate on this. And of course this isn’t such a great option if you do plan to have kids some day. Then again, despite the anti-abortion rhetoric of “don’t have sex if you aren’t ready to reproduce”, planned pregnancies are much more dangerous under abortion bans.

        • scarabine@lemmynsfw.com
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          Would you mind saying what you mean here? I’d like for you to explain your thought a little more.

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            I’m responding to “it doesn’t seem generalized at all”. If that were the case it would not be a movement based on absolutes that apply to all men

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      8 days ago

      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.