A radical feminist movement in which women eschew marriage, dating, and sex with men is gaining ground among young liberal Americans. Donald Trump’s election victory.

of South Korean origin and known as 4BMeaning “number four” in Korean, its principles are: no dating, no sex with men, no marriage, and no children.

Other guidelines include giving up beauty products and avoiding social interactions with men altogether.

“The women in South Korea they do. It is time for us to join them,” he said in a post on X. “Men will not be rewarded and will not have access to our bodies.”

Women are angry that Supreme Court appointees have ended federal protections for abortion and that Mr. Trump, who has previously been found guilty of sexual misconduct, has blocked a female presidential candidate from reaching the Oval Office for a second time.

“Ladies, we need to start thinking 4D movement “Like women in South Korea and giving America a seriously sharp birth rate decline,” he said in another X-related post. “We need to step back.”

The call to action raised by the United States is going global. Google searches for the term are soaring in Türkiye and Malaysia, while women in India, Pakistan, Egypt and Brazil are calling for similar movements.

“Seeing the 4B movement spread internationally gives me great joy and pride as a Korean feminist,” said one activist. Another said it was a way to “repay suffragists for the gratitude they owe.”

Sexism and misogyny

For a Korean 4B practitioner, misogyny started at a young age.

At his elementary school, he said, boys in his class openly discussed the pornography they watched online, comparing the size of women’s breasts to those of their classmates.

Teenage boys were creating group chats to target, taunt, and sometimes physically harass female students. As everyday sexism continues in high school, college and the workplace, a common factor has emerged.

So she’s cut men out of her life for over three years.

“The moment I decided that I had to quit everything with Korean men was the moment I realized that my partner was no different from the terrible men I had encountered from primary school to adulthood,” said the woman in her 20s, who lives in Seoul. but asked not to be identified for fear of retaliation.