4B Movement / 6B4T

4B Movement / 6B4T

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About

The 4B Movement is a fringe radical feminist movement which originated in South Korea in the late 2010s. Proponents of the movement refuse to date men and have sex with them, get married, and have children. The movement, which size in Korea was estimated to be at about 4,000 members in 2019, is a protest against South Korean patriarchic society, with its members regarding South Korean men "irredeemable" and striving to change the society and the position of women in it rather than changing men. In 2024, following the Republican candidate Donald Trump winning the 2024 United States presidential election, the movement experienced a spike in interest in the country, with some women sounding calls to popularize the movement in the United States.

An later version of the movement, referred to as 6B4T, also includes abstaining from consumption of sexist products and supporting fellow women who practice the movement, with 4T referring to rejecting beauty standards, hypertextualization of women in otaku culture, religion, and idol culture.

History

The 4B ("Four Nos") movement formed among radical South Korean feminists in 2019, emerging in Korean feminist circles on X / Twitter around 2017 to 2018.[1][2][3] The movement is inspired by earlier feminist movements in South Korea, most notably the South Korean "Escape the Corset" movement which urges women to liberate themselves from sexual, bodily, social and psychological oppression. The 2016 feminist novel Kim Ji-young, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo has also been cited as source of inspiration for the movement.

The name of the 4B movement stands for "four nos": bihon, bichulsan, biyeonae, bisekseu ("not married", "no childbirth", "no romance", "no sex"). The members of the movement seek to express their protest against South Korea's society, which they view as patriarchal, by choosing to refuse traditional gender roles and limiting their engagement with men and, including abstaining from having romantic or sexual relationships with men. Instead of changing men, which members of 4B movement view as "irredeemable",' the movement aims to change the society and the power women hold in it.[4]

On June 2nd, 2020, South Korean researchers Jieun Lee and Euisol Jeong published[1] "The 4B movement: envisioning a feminist future with/in a non-reproductive future in Korea", the earliest found scientific study of the movement.

In the 2020s, the ideology of movement saw further development as 6B and later 6B4T movements, with the latter also spreading to China. The "6B" included rejecting sexist products and supporting fellow women who practice the movement on top of the previous principles, and 4T referring to rejecting beauty standards, hypertextualization of women in otaku culture, religion, and idol culture.[5][6]

In 2019, the 4B movement claimed to have 4,000 members.[7]

Spread in the West

Before the 2024 United States Presidential Election

On March 8th, 2023, the New York-based online magazine The Cut[8] published an article about the 4B movement, with the reporter interviewing several South Korean women who identify as its members. On that day, the official X[9] / Twitter account for The Cut made a thread about the movement, with the opening post (shown below) garnering over 8.3 million views, 9.800 reposts and 19,000 likes in two years.


THE CUT The Cut @TheCut In Korea, a growing movement of women is saying no: No to heterosexual marriage; no to childbirth; no to dating; no to heterosexual sexual relationships. They are choosing to stop fighting the patriarchy and instead leave it behind. @annalouiesuss reports 서울시는 부동산업자 고천의 해 서초동 1448-9 A World Without Men From thecut.com 5:36 PM Mar 8, 2023 8.3M Views •

In February 2024, the movement became a subject of several viral TikToks in which users reviewed it, with some advocating for it, and some incorrectly attributing South Korea's declining birth rate to it. On February 1st, 2024, TikTok[10] user @jinwoopark0721 posted one of the earliest videos on the topic to go viral, with the upload (shown below) garnering over 2.6 million views and 450,000 likes in nine months.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7330673615920188677

On February 17th, 2024, TikTok[11] user @k1baji posted a video about the movement that garnered over 5.9 million views and 1 million views in nine months (shown below).


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7336464330709323038

In February – April 2024, the 4B movement remained a viral subject of videos on TikTok made by users worldwide. For example, on February 29th, 2024, Indonesian TikTok[12] user @chersannn made a video that garnered over 1.6 million views and 172,000 likes in eight months. On March 19th, 2024, TikTok[13] user @angelamaaar posted a video in Spanish that received over 2.7 million views and 506,000 likes in the same period. On March 31st, South Korean TikToker[14] anna.lee.jy posted a video about the movement, commenting that the size of the movement was overestimated by TikTok users in the West. The video (shown below) garnered over 1.7 million views and 98,200 likes in eight months.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7352537200145337601

After the 2024 United States Presidential Election

Following Donald Trump's
victory in the 2024 United States presidential election, the 4B movement saw a spike in interest among women in the United States, with multiple posts calling for popularizing it in the country going viral on X and TikTok.

On November 6th, 2024, X[15] / Twitter user @lalisasaura wrote, "Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline". The post (shown below) garnered over 73,000 reposts and 458,000 likes in one day.


@lalisasaura Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline: - no marriage - no childbirth - no dating men - no sex with men We can't let these men have the last laugh... we need to bite back 10:05 AM ⚫ Nov 6, 2024 17.4M Views ...

Later on November 6th, X[16] user @rusticfem made a post about the movement that garnered over 15,000 reposts and 69,000 likes in one day (shown below).


Edie V. @rusticfem Reminder that the 4B movement, and the separatist movement in general, isn't just about avoiding men- it's also about supporting and investing in women. Seek out relationships with women, women-owned businesses, women-made media, etc; surround yourself with women and our culture. @lalisasaura • Nov 6 Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline: - no marriage... Show more 11:55 PM ⚫ Nov 6, 2024 837.8K Views • ...

On TikTok, multiple videos in which women stated that they are joining the movement, with some shaving their heads and urging other women to join them. For example, on November 7th, 2024, TikTok[17] user @girl_dumphim posted a video of shaving her head that garnered over 3.2 million views and 328,000 likes in one day.


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7434176611936734495

Following the viral discussions on social media, the 4b movement became a popular subject of articles in traditional media in early November 2024.

PPKKa 뻑가

PPKKa 뻑가 is an anonymous South Korean YouTuber known for making videos that attempt to expose what he perceives as "radical feminists" in South Korea. The YouTuber is an outspoken critic of South Korea's 4B movement in which women attempt to distance themselves from men, citing Korea's supposedly systemic misogyny issues.

Various Examples


https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7434198016178818334
https://www.tiktok.com/embed/v2/7434357350644976927

The easiest way to avoid anti-abortion laws: 4B Movement (B means "Do Not" in korean) NO dating w men No sex w men No marrying w men No babies w men Jessica Valenti @JessicaValenti If you want to know where young American women are at, the Google search term interest for the 4b movement says it all. (It's a South Korean term for women who swear off sex, marriage and childbirth with men) 4b Search term + COMPARE United States, Past 7 days Interest over time 100 75 5 50 25 25 Oct 30 at 6:... Nov 3 at 12:00 AM Nov 6 at 6:... 3:59 AM Nov 7, 2024 201.1K Views Joey Mannarino @JoeyMannarinoUS CONSERV Liberal women are now considering starting something called the 4B movement to spite men for voting for Trump in large numbers. That movement would mean they will refuse to marry, date, have sex or have children with men. So, the Left is going to intentionally take themselves out of the gene pool? That sounds like a gift, not a curse. 4:03 AM • Nov 7, 2024 1.8M Views

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Sunsoft Bass
Sunsoft Bass

Left-wing women are like this, complain about women being objectified, yet mock men for failing to get sex, calling them incels, that means that women are trophies.

And now, they are being more clear about how the value of women is the sex they can provide.

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