Are American Women Really Going on a Sex Strike?
“Women need to stop dating & having sex with men immediately and im not even joking or being dramatic in the slightest,” said one X user in a viral post on November 6th. “take a page from the feminists in south korea.”
“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 another popular post. “We can’t let these men have the last laugh…we need to bite back.”
Are women really taking a page from South Korean activists and going on a sex strike to protest Donald Trump’s victory in the 2024 election? While claims like this have swept the internet since Trump’s victory, there’s no evidence that this is happening, and no reason to think it ever will.
According to online posts about the topic, talk of a sex strike takes inspiration from the South Korean 4B movement, which encourages women not to date, marry, or have sex with men, and not to have children. The trend began in backlash to the 2016 killing of a young woman near a Seoul subway station. However, it’s worth noting that South Korean men are much more hostile to feminism than men in the United States, and the nation retains larger gender gaps than most other developed nations. According to one poll, 76 percent of Korean men in their 20s and 66 percent in their 30s reported that they strongly opposed feminism. South Korea also has the largest gender pay gap among OECD nations, with men making more than 31 percent more than women.
Seventy-three percent of South Korean women reported that marriage was disadvantageous to women, and 84.4 percent agreed that having a child was disadvantageous to women. And these results aren’t exactly surprising—in South Korea, women in dual-income households still spend an average of 3.4 times more on housework than their male partners. A gender gap in household chores exists in the U.S., but it seems to be smaller. Howeve
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