Rewrite and translate this title The 4B movement: Will Trump’s re-election spark a sex strike? to Japanese between 50 and 60 characters. Do not include any introductory or extra text; return only the title in Japanese.

On his 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump sent mixed messages on the topic of abortion, but it seems safe to say that the next four years of his presidency won’t be good for women. This is the man who proudly took credit for the overturning of Roe v Wade, helped defund Planned Parenthood clinics, and explicitly supported anti-abortion legislation during his last presidency.

Despite the significant expansion of abortion rights in seven US states this week, it’s unsurprising that four more years of Trump have reignited fears about a nationwide abortion ban. And, in the days after his reelection, young men have already been documented leaving comments like “your body, my choice” under women’s social media posts, presumably spurred on by far-right influencers like Nick Fuentes.

Many women in the US, meanwhile, are sharing their own reactions to the news that 55 per cent of men (and 60 per cent of white men) voted Republican, effectively endorsing a party that doesn’t believe in their right to bodily autonomy. A recurring theme? The 4B movement. “Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline,” reads one popular post on X. “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.”

But what actually is the 4B movement? Where did it come from? And could it really make an impact in the US? We’ve gathered everything you need to know below.

Put simply, 4B (or ‘4 Nos’) is a feminist movement whose followers refuse to engage in romantic or sexual relationships with men, or have children. In official terms, the titular ‘4 Nos’ are: no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men, no marriage with men. In Korean, each word starts with “bi-” – hence the name 4B.

The 4B movement originates in South Korea, hitting the public consciousness around 2019. As the Korean feminist scholar Min Joo Lee pointed out in a 2023 article in The Conversation, it has roots in the nation’s long history of extreme misogyny – from right-wing internet rhetoric, to digital sex crimes, and a pivotal 2016 femicide in Seoul – and the hopeless outlook of many young people, AKA “the generation that has given up”. Unfortunately, none of this will sound particularly alien to women living in the US.

@annashlap

this election just showed everyone’s true colors. is the 4B movement next?

♬ original sound – ᴋɪʀsᴛʏ

Since Trump declared victory on November 6, social media platforms have been flooded with posts about the 4B movement. In TikTok videos with millions of views, young women pledge their allegiance to 4B. On X, others share advice on the movement and its radical roots, while men share misogynistic jokes about supporting their choice not to reproduce (despite regularly crying that no one will have sex with them).

Obviously, Trump isn’t even in office yet, and it’s not clear whether the interest in the 4B movement will actually translate into real action – or abstinence – although some women do claim to have broken up with their Republican boyfriends already. There’s also the question of what 4B would look like in the US, where the cultural context is very different to Korea.

Elon Musk’s obsession with birth rates in the West is no secret. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate and now vice president-elect, similarly made the declining fertility rate of the US a core component of his campaign. If women do start opting out of relationships with men and having babies, then it’s safe to say they won’t be pleased. Of course, this is all part of the plan. Besides women’s safety and self-fulfilment, a big part of the 4B movement is about women withdrawing their reproductive ability as a very real, material act of protest against their mistreatment.

As people learn more about the 4B movement and even put its tenets into practice, lots of different perspectives are going to emerge. Some women’s lives will inevitably improve after dropping their right-wing partners, others will be more reluctant. Some have already questioned the safety of creating yet more lonely incels. Ultimately, it is a radical and oversimplified solution – and maybe that’s what men need! But, as Dazed’s Halima Jibril pointed out in an article on decentring men written earlier this year, even the best-intentioned break from dating, marrying, or having sex with men is only a partial solution to a much broader set of structural problems under capitalism and patriarchy, which can’t be solved by simply cutting people out of our lives. Again, though, it would make Elon quite upset, so maybe it’s worth a try.

On his 2024 campaign trail, Donald Trump sent mixed messages on the topic of abortion, but it seems safe to say that the next four years of his presidency won’t be good for women. This is the man who proudly took credit for the overturning of Roe v Wade, helped defund Planned Parenthood clinics, and explicitly supported anti-abortion legislation during his last presidency.

Despite the significant expansion of abortion rights in seven US states this week, it’s unsurprising that four more years of Trump have reignited fears about a nationwide abortion ban. And, in the days after his reelection, young men have already been documented leaving comments like “your body, my choice” under women’s social media posts, presumably spurred on by far-right influencers like Nick Fuentes.

Many women in the US, meanwhile, are sharing their own reactions to the news that 55 per cent of men (and 60 per cent of white men) voted Republican, effectively endorsing a party that doesn’t believe in their right to bodily autonomy. A recurring theme? The 4B movement. “Ladies, we need to start considering the 4B movement like the women in South Korea and give America a severely sharp birth rate decline,” reads one popular post on X. “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.”

But what actually is the 4B movement? Where did it come from? And could it really make an impact in the US? We’ve gathered everything you need to know below.

Put simply, 4B (or ‘4 Nos’) is a feminist movement whose followers refuse to engage in romantic or sexual relationships with men, or have children. In official terms, the titular ‘4 Nos’ are: no sex with men, no giving birth, no dating men, no marriage with men. In Korean, each word starts with “bi-” – hence the name 4B.

The 4B movement originates in South Korea, hitting the public consciousness around 2019. As the Korean feminist scholar Min Joo Lee pointed out in a 2023 article in The Conversation, it has roots in the nation’s long history of extreme misogyny – from right-wing internet rhetoric, to digital sex crimes, and a pivotal 2016 femicide in Seoul – and the hopeless outlook of many young people, AKA “the generation that has given up”. Unfortunately, none of this will sound particularly alien to women living in the US.

@annashlap

this election just showed everyone’s true colors. is the 4B movement next?

♬ original sound – ᴋɪʀsᴛʏ

Since Trump declared victory on November 6, social media platforms have been flooded with posts about the 4B movement. In TikTok videos with millions of views, young women pledge their allegiance to 4B. On X, others share advice on the movement and its radical roots, while men share misogynistic jokes about supporting their choice not to reproduce (despite regularly crying that no one will have sex with them).

Obviously, Trump isn’t even in office yet, and it’s not clear whether the interest in the 4B movement will actually translate into real action – or abstinence – although some women do claim to have broken up with their Republican boyfriends already. There’s also the question of what 4B would look like in the US, where the cultural context is very different to Korea.

Elon Musk’s obsession with birth rates in the West is no secret. JD Vance, Trump’s running mate and now vice president-elect, similarly made the declining fertility rate of the US a core component of his campaign. If women do start opting out of relationships with men and having babies, then it’s safe to say they won’t be pleased. Of course, this is all part of the plan. Besides women’s safety and self-fulfilment, a big part of the 4B movement is about women withdrawing their reproductive ability as a very real, material act of protest against their mistreatment.

As people learn more about the 4B movement and even put its tenets into practice, lots of different perspectives are going to emerge. Some women’s lives will inevitably improve after dropping their right-wing partners, others will be more reluctant. Some have already questioned the safety of creating yet more lonely incels. Ultimately, it is a radical and oversimplified solution – and maybe that’s what men need! But, as Dazed’s Halima Jibril pointed out in an article on decentring men written earlier this year, even the best-intentioned break from dating, marrying, or having sex with men is only a partial solution to a much broader set of structural problems under capitalism and patriarchy, which can’t be solved by simply cutting people out of our lives. Again, though, it would make Elon quite upset, so maybe it’s worth a try.