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After the election results in the United States, interest in the 4B movement, in which women turn away from men, is increasing. It is a protest by women who are concerned about their rights now that Donald Trump has been re-elected as president. “If they think our bodies don’t matter, they have no right to access our bodies,” the statement on social media said.
Women’s rights were an important issue in these elections. Partly due to the previous presidency of Donald Trump, the national right to abortion was abolished, so that one in three women in America now lives in a state where it is not abortion allowed. Many see it as depriving them of their right to self-determination. There are fears that women’s rights will be restricted even more in the coming years.
According to Trump, women don’t have to worry about him in the White House: “I will protect our women whether they like it or not,” he said at a campaign rally just before the elections. An idea that touched many women the wrong way.
4 hours or
In response to Trump’s re-election, women are joining the 4B movement, which started as a movement on TikTok. The women’s protest movement comes from South Korea, where a group of women have been upholding the ‘4 no’ principle since 2019. The B stands for Bi, which means which is not in Korean. Not to sex, not to dating, not to marriage and not to children.
The 4 B’s in Korean
- Bihon: unmarried to men
- Bichulsan: not to bear children
- Biyeonae: no relations with men
- Bisexeu: without sex with men
In South Korea, these rules emerged as a female protest against patriarchal society and gender inequality. For example, there is a large income gap in the country: women earn on average about 31 percent less than men. In addition, there is a lot of domestic violence in South Korea. Something that women especially suffer from.
‘Shape of Power’
Celibate behavior and the exclusion of men are used as a form of pressure. “We see that women want autonomy back. It empowers women,” explained Anne-Floor Dekker, director of the group WO=MEN, which is committed to gender equality. “These women think: it’s my body and I can use it to get our rights back.”
According to the American journalist Erik Mouthaan, it is difficult to tell how many women in the US are really rebelling against men, but he also sees that a movement is going on forward on social media. In any case, there has been an increase in interest: since Trump won last week, the search term B4 has been transferred 450 percent more often.
More women than expected voted for Donald Trump, but the majority of Republican voters are still male. That is what worries many women, says Mouthaan. “Women feel betrayed. I don’t understand how a man could vote for someone who could be taking away women’s rights.”
Body as a means of prosecution
Women using their bodies as a means of protest has been happening for some time. During the civil war in Liberia in 2003, a group of women organized a ‘sexual strike’ under the name Women of Liberia Mass Action for Peace. The wives of the competing men agreed not to have sex with their partners until there was peace.
The sex strike did not immediately end the civil war in Liberia, but it generated so much media attention that it caused at least a stir. The question is whether the 4B movement will bring fundamental change in the United States. According to Anne-Floor Dekker, more is needed to guarantee women’s rights: “It is important that it is not normal for someone else to decide about your body. “
2024-11-12 20:39:00
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