WRFH/Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM - Culture Corner: The 4B Movement

Episode Date: November 20, 2024

Skye talks about the newly emerging "4B movement" that has taken off over the past few weeks online.

I'm Skygram and you're listening to Culture Corner on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM. Today I'm going to be talking about the 4B movement, a movement which has kicked off online since it was officially announced that President Trump will be returning to the White House in January. So what is the 4B movement? The 4B movement is a movement which started among women in South Korea who were protesting what they felt was gender inequality. South Korea has a widespread domestic violence problem. There are a lot of issues with violence against women in South Korea. The women of South Korea wanted to protest against that. So they started this movement called 4B, which meant that they will practice abstinence, refrain from dating men, refrain from marrying men, and not have children with men. So basically, it is this general boycott

of interaction and association with men. The South Korean women who kicks started this movement definitely had legitimate concerns and problems that they were raising about violence in their society. However, the way this movement is taking shape in America is not the same at all. American women are frustrated because Trump is going to become president again, and they claim he's going to take away women's rights. So here's an example of one of those women. This is Art Angela Alexa on TikTok. Marriage as a tradition is just, it's always just been a way to show your ownership over a woman. I don't think that's romantic at all. For the women that are actually wanting to participate in the 4B movement, decenter men, right? DeCenter men

from your life. So that about sums it up. This movement is really about decentering men. And in particular, I do think it's about these women wanting to feel like their victims and wanting to be able to claim the oppressed label. So what is my reaction to this whole movement? I mean, frankly, I'm not surprised. I think you do have this high demand for oppression. You have this high demand for victimhood. Everyone wants to be seen as a victim because that's what's popular right now.

That's what gets the views. That's what gets the likes. and on. These people thrive off of attention. But I also think there is some element of just complete and utter brainwashing that a lot of these women have been subjected to over the past four years, eight years, however long, where some of them are legitimately convinced that a Trump presidency will spell the end of their rights as women. And I think that speaking, that's speaks to how effective the media and politicians and people on social media and on the internet have been at drumming up outrage and fear and have made these women legitimately scared for

their lives because of the prospect of a Trump presidency. The brainwashing really does run deep. Here's an example of that. This is the underscore Mrs. Sally on TikTok. I don't know what the 4B movement is. Korean women had decided to stop having babies until they received equal rights and their country was screwed because they weren't having enough kids. Their population was going down too quickly. I cannot believe that that was something that had to be done and that now we are at our

rock bottom and this is where we are at. It's videos like this and other videos where American women are talking about losing their rights that I just find incredibly out of touch to the rest of the world. As American women, we enjoy so many rights and privileges. The fact that we are equal here in America to men is such a privilege that I don't think people understand at all anymore. For American women to be getting online and talking about losing their rights when there are women in other countries being systemically

oppressed is absolutely insane to me and I will never, ever understand that. So that is the 4B movement and that is a brief summary of what's been going on over these past few weeks. I'm Skygram and this is Culture Corner on Radio Free Hillsdale 101.7 FM.