
Women are quitting men, and they’re not f**king around.
This isn’t like a 60-day sugar detox, or a pledge to stop doom-scrolling TikTok. It’s a hard reset. Disc wiped, file unavailable; wrong number, who dis?
Feminism has historically championed the decentralisation of men in women’s lives, but proponents of what’s been coined the '4B movement' are going one step further: total eradication.
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If the term sounds familiar, that’s probably because it’s been on your For You page recently. Four B is trending in the TikTok zeitgeist, but its roots stretch back to 2019 in South Korea, where it began as a fringe movement in response to the country’s oppressive pro-natalist policies and patriarchal culture. (South Korean women earn roughly 30 percent less than their male counterparts and are held to impossible beauty standards that have led to rampant cosmetic surgery rates.)
The four Bs stand for Korean words that all begin with "bi" (which means "no"): bihon (no marriage), bichulsan (no childbirth), biyeonae (no dating), and bisekseu (no sex).