Korea's 4b 'anti-men' movement comes to America
The Story
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🗓️ 18 November 2024
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
No sex, no babies, no marriage, no men. In 2018 a niche feminist movement started in South Korea as a reaction to the country’s entrenched misogyny. It pledged four ‘nos’ when it came to men. Now it's spreading on social media to America as young women rebel against Donald Trump's election. But how impactful will it be?
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| 1:21.1 | A few days after Donald Trump won the election, one of my colleagues was at home in North London, |
| 1:27.6 | practicing what she describes as a now nightly ritual, doom-scrolling through social media. |
| 1:30.8 | There was lots of political content and analysis, |
| 1:35.6 | and then she started to notice something else that kept popping up too. |
| 1:38.8 | So there was kind of like the normal stuff kicking around that you would imagine, |
| 1:43.7 | like, you know, a bunch of fraternity boys dressed like Trump doing a dance in front of their fraternity house. |
| 2:04.9 | But then, probably naively, I hadn't felt that the gender divide was so extreme. |
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