Anti-Trump girls have taken to social media to take a vow of abstinence — swearing off intercourse and relationship males — after the previous president grew to become the president-elect as soon as once more on Tuesday.
Apparently they see it as one other option to “fight the patriarchy,” as leftists prefer to say.
Many movies uploaded to TikTok shortly after the election referenced the “4B Motion,” a Korean radical feminist motion with tenets that go in opposition to relationship males, marrying males, having intercourse with males, and having kids.
“All I’ve to say is, good luck getting laid. Particularly in Florida, as a result of me and my girlies are collaborating within the 4B motion. That’s my subsequent plan, and I’m useless fucking severe,” a TikToker named Brielle with over 357,000 followers stated in a single video:
@brielleybelly123 good luck charlie! #4bmovement
One other video, uploaded by a crying lady named Phoebe with almost 120,000 followers, stated she goes to “abstain” from intercourse “for the following 4 years”:
@it_me_phoebe
“I truly simply broke up with my boyfriend,” she continued, earlier than lamenting her “rights” being taken away.
“As a lady, my bodily autonomy issues. And that is my option to train sovereignty over that. So I extremely encourage some other girls who’re single and care about progressing girls’s rights and nonetheless combating for our bodily autonomy to do the identical,” Phoebe stated, earlier than instructing girls to “delete” relationship apps and to show to their feminine buddies for consolation as a substitute.
“I believe we are able to look to South Korea and the 4B motion as some extent of inspiration… I’m astounded that we nonetheless don’t have a lady president,” she added.
In a clip with over 130,000 views, one other TikTok person wrote on display, “I believe it’s time for American girls to take part in our personal 4B motion”:
@purple_spxrrow Go stick your sticks someplace else #election2024 #girls #feminist #4bmovementamerica #femaleempowerment #mybodymychoice
“If males received’t respect our our bodies, they received’t get entry to our our bodies.”
In accordance with the Telegraph, the 4B motion began within the mid 2010s in an “obscure, largely on-line department of Korean feminism.”
It’s unclear what number of individuals the motion has in its birthplace, although it claimed to have 4,000 members in 2019, based on Asia Information.
A mother content material creator shot again in any respect the anti-procreation TikToks, saying, “The one girls collaborating within the 4B motion are liberals. Conservative girls will procreate. This implies we’ll see an enormous inflow of conservatives being born”:
@maybe_itsmolly What are your ideas on this 4B motion that these girls are becoming a member of after kamala misplaced this election?. #4b #4bmovementusa #fyp #liberalsoftiktok #republican #republicansoftiktok #womenfortrump
“I help your motion,” the lady, who goes by @maybe_itsmolly, added facetiously.
Reactions from males on X confirmed that they had been largely unfazed by the threats of abstinence: