As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism
As 4B takes the world by storm, South Korea is grappling with a backlash against feminism
The 4B movement that sparked global interest in the wake of the US election has grown out of an intensely unequal society
Summary
South Korea’s 4B movement—rejecting marriage, childbirth, dating, and sex—has gained global attention as a feminist response to gender inequality, amplified by Donald Trump’s election.
Rooted in a society with the OECD’s widest gender pay gap, it reflects women’s frustration with patriarchal norms.
While viral online, 4B faces intense backlash domestically, with feminism often stigmatized as radical or “man-hating.”
President Yoon Suk Yeol’s anti-feminist rhetoric and rising misogyny have worsened divisions. Many women now practice “quiet feminism,” avoiding public activism amid hostility. Experts caution against oversimplified links between 4B and South Korea’s record-low birthrate.
4B is highly transphobic tho
I mean I don’t doubt some of the people pushing it are (TERFs gonna TERF) but the movement itself seems… pretty straight forward? No dating/marrying/sex/having children with men.
Or is there more to it? Or again just TERFs, being TERFs inside the movement.
How so? I haven't really kept up with 4B, so this is a genuine question.
If you are basing that on the wiki article, you might want to look into when those edits to the article were made, and what was changed. There’s a whole edit war happening with it now by the look of it. Likely due to the heavy unsupported edits about transphobia.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=4B_movement&action=history
That’s the only evidence I’ve seen for that claim thus far; do you have other evidence?
Experts caution against oversimplified links between 4B and South Korea’s record-low birthrate.
Experts of what? Burying their heads in the sand?
Birthrates are low in many countries and it's unknown how much of South Korea's low birthrate is related to 4B.