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    The 4B movement in the US is growing in response to “your body, my choice” tweets.

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    A growing number of women in the United States are cursing the men and posting about it on social media while applying for a American Movement 4B behind him the 2024 presidential election.

    Reproductive rights have been a key issue since the Supreme Court overturned Roe v. Wade in June 2022, leaving it up to individual states to decide whether they support abortion rights. Ten states have seen abortion measures on the ballot in 2024of which seven passed.

    Florida’s Abortion Amendment 4 did not pass despite 57% of voters support the measure due to a 2006 amendment that raised the amendment approval threshold from 50% to 60%. South Dakota and Nebraska joined Florida in voting against expanding access to abortion.

    What is the 4B movement?

    The 4B movement emerged in South Korea in 2017, around the time South Korea elected Yoon Seok-yeol, a conservative president. The name represents the four virtues of movement:

    • Bihon — refusal of (heterosexual) marriage.
    • Bichulsan – refusal of birth
    • Biyeonae – the refusal of romance
    • Bisexual — refusal of sexual romance

    In Korean, the word “bi” translates to no, so the name is essentially “4 Nos.”

    The movement encompasses two main ideas, according to a Yonsei University research paper.

    • Criticism and protests against state policies that encourage childbirth.
    • Self-help discussions and practices that focus on women’s individual futures, which they believe are limited by the “patriarchal state.”

    Why are women calling for a 4B movement if so many abortion measures have passed?

    The mostly online movement is seen as a response to alarmist messages propagated by Nick Fuentes, a right-wing white nationalist and anti-Semitic pundit who dined at Mar-a-Lago with Trump and Kanye West in November 2022.

    “Your body, my choice. Forever,” Fuentes posted on X, formerly known as Twitter, on election night. The tweet it has been viewed over 63 million times.

    The Institute for Strategic Dialogue (ISD), an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to defending human rights, saw an explosion in the number of misogynistic terms and expressions after Tuesday’s election.

    In the past 24 hours, there has been a 4,600% increase in mentions of the terms “your body, my choice” and “get back in the kitchen” on X, according to data released by ISD on Friday.

    The sentiment was not isolated to X. On Facebook, the phrase “your body, my choice” was trending with 52,000 posts in the last 24 hours. ISD highlighted one comment from a parent who said, “Today my daughter was told ‘your body, MY choice’ three times on campus.” The third group of boys told him to “sleep with one eye open tonight.” “

    Calls to repeal the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920, rose 663 percent compared to the previous week. The top 10 X posts at the time calling for the repeal of the 19th Amendment received more than four million views collectively, according to ISD.

    The blue bracelet movement is also picking up steam

    Another trend emerging on TikTok after the election shows white women trying to differentiate themselves from those who would have voted for Trump.

    In a nod to a popular Taylor Swift Eras Tour accessory, women are posting videos of themselves wearing blue friendship bracelets.

    “52% of women who look like me who voted for him. I’m ashamed and hate that others might assume I’m part of them,” one TikTok user wrote.

    Bracelets are similar to another 2016 movement that people have been wearing safety pins to signify their support for marginalized communities.

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