In the hours following former President Donald Trump’s election victory, Google searches related to 4B — a fringe South Korean feminist movement that made a name for itself in the mid to late 2010s — surged in the United States.

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    It’s like being an antinatalist but because you have a bug up your ass.

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    A message to my fellow guys: if you dislike this, guess what: it’s real easy to stop being the target of it. All you have to do is quit being a misogynistic, authoritarian piece of shit.

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      Yeah honestly as a guy I’m all for it. I absolutely do not blame women who do not want to have sex when they’re treated like 2nd class citizens who’s bodies are controlled by old, creepy men in Congress.

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      For real, it’s astounding(not really) how much women appreciate not being treated and viewed like they are things to be owned and controlled

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      Respectfully, this isn’t on dudes.

      Four and eight years ago young men overwhelmingly supported Bernie Sanders, and they were ridiculed for it. Dems even made up an epithet for it: Bernie Bros.

      The perspective you’re showing in this reply is why Republicans won. You can’t make it very clear you don’t want young men to vote for you and then be surprised when they don’t.

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        What are you talking about? Bernie Bros are the diametric opposite of the problem. My comment is addressing all the men but them!

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    I understand the sentiment, but this is intrinsically self-defeating if at most one half of the female population participates while the other half if quickly drifting towards the trad-wife high birth rate shit.

    It is just math.

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      I don’t expect this to go anywhere, but wouldn’t limiting the dating pool create a more competitive market for men?

      If that is a good thing, that I don’t know

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        We are in the middle of a loneliness epidemic. For both women and men. Denying themselves companionship and love will only make people more miserable.

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            It’s not just the US. It’s mostly everywhere. It’s a byproduct of the internet existing and so many people being addicted to it. It’s a byproduct of people overworking themselves, working shit hours / nights so they cannot interact in a healthy way - without being literal zombies. It’s a problem with the mental health crisis too - with the loneliness epidemic fueling it, and the mental health crisis fueling the loneliness epidemic. More people are scared of dating and getting hurt. More people are scared of commitment. People go nuts locked up alone in tiny boxes they call a home, don’t know how to get out and don’t want to risk inviting someone in. People got comfortable with how things are going for them, even if it’s going completely shit. Then there are the dating app companies, whose entire gimmick is to get you hooked onto a monthly subscription. Which, aside from someone who is looking to hook up only, is about as counter to what they should be as possible.

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                Oh for sure. Being alone most of one’s life is torture for a lot of people. It changes them, often for worse. Humans are social creatures and it shows.

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    Gen-X men got him elected. As a white man in his 40s, I’m disgusted. After moving out of the city, I just can’t converse with most of the white men my age. The majority of my friends are now younger than me or POC.

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      It’s my understanding that a lot of Gen-Z men backed Trump as well. Can’t say I understand the appeal he has to the younger crowd.

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        Can’t say I understand the appeal he has to the younger crowd

        Perhaps some introspection is in order. If feminists can’t figure out how to coexist with others, without turning everything into a battle, then they’re ultimately going to prove to the world that they have no business at all being anywhere near power. Frankly, women have been given a great deal of autonomy in western civilization recently, and have set themselves to the task of burning everything down. It’s not at all a good look, and how the younger generation sees you should be a wake up call.

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          Feminists are not the one aggressively turning men into this. It’s toxic masculinity types like Andrew Tate, Jordan Peterson, and Joe Rogan.

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              The scary feminists are turning men into douchebags not the notable douchebags with a platform spewing hate, sure buddy.

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              Look inward my dude. You have some really fucked up ideas about women. Women are just people like you or me and deserve full rights including to their body. If you can’t accept that you don’t see women as fully human and you are, to be technical, an asshole.

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          If feminists can’t figure out how to coexist with others, without turning everything into a battle, then they’re ultimately going to prove to the world that they have no business at all being anywhere near power.

          If thats your logic, when are men going to apologize for WWI and WWII? How about an apology for the Holomodor? Are these the evidence you’re using to show that men deserve to be in power?

          Frankly, women have been given a great deal of autonomy in western civilization recently, and have set themselves to the task of burning everything down.

          Oh? Which part of men’s bodies are women given legal power to control?

          BTW, I’m a dude, I’m just not deluded enough to think that my genitals make me smarter that people with other genitals.

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            Am cis-male. And I guarantee you my genitals absolutely make me way dumber than other genital types. 😆 I could fill a novel with data points of my genitally-enabled stupidity.

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          Lol I tagged you “mad about WoKe games” so it’s not surprising that here you are going off about feminists. Practically no feminist has issues with respectful male individuals. So we can speculate where you got the idea that they’re looking for trouble… Gee I wonder

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            It is when you’re still so deep inside the system mentally that you require products to facilitate your lifestyle. If you want to know how to be free without relying upon society to grant you that privilege, you should look into this cool guy from Roman times named Jesus.

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              you should look into this cool guy from Roman times named Jesus

              Look I never do this, but… 🤮

              And seriously… if you’re trying to be a “good Christian witness”… this is not the way.

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                Not even really Christian, but he still provides a great example of what it actually means to live in this world. Too many people want freedom, but don’t want to give up the luxuries that others provide for them. Frankly a lot of Christians don’t get that part of the message either.

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      Do you have a citation for this? Maybe it’s just the circles I run in, but I don’t know any gen-x men who voted for Trump.

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      Gen-X men got him elected.

      Like all things Gen-X, there aren’t enough of us for negative or positive change. In 2022 only 23% were Gen-X (down 3% from 2012), and assuming equal split on gender, that would be about 11.5% men, and I know for sure 100% of Gen-X men DID NOT vote for trump. For the sake of your argument lets say 70% of those men did thats only 8% of the vote. source

      I don’t think its a supportable statement to say that this specific 8% are the reason trump was elected without ignoring the other 45% of the electorate.

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        I have genitofemoral neuropathy. I’m not satisfying any women anytime soon. lol

        Fair observation though.

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    More women voted for Harris, but there was still a giant number of women who voted for Trump. The women who voted for him won’t do this and the women who didn’t vote for him wouldn’t have dated been who did anyway.

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      You’re really missing the point if you think this is about who a man voted for, and not about a woman not wanting to risk her life because any fuckwad stealthed her or even accidentally got her pregnant. Misogyny and sexual crimes do not follow party lines, they are pervasive throughout society, and the fewer choices women have, the more we will protect ourselves.

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        Hey, I’m completely on board with the fight. I 100% believe no one but the person and their doctor should be involved in any healthcare decisions, and I’m an advocate for women. I just think that this particular approach will accomplish nothing. The only people it will impact are the people who are already like-minded.

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    If I were a cis woman, I also wouldn’t want to risk pregnancy by being with a cis man. Certainly not in a country where being pregnant is increasingly more dangerous to one’s life.

    Also for my trans homies - remember that HRT is not birth control.

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    I’m all for women doing this, I’m just worried it’ll literally be the beginning of Idiocracy.

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    Not all men backed the ugliness. (To lump them altogether is sexist.) The ones who didn’t should be supported.

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      I’m sure explaining not all men to them will turn this whole thing around.

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        I’m sure pulling an Idiocracy will turn this whole thing around.

        See how useful that is?

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        Because we all know the response to that is too many men? Right? But women voted against women, how do you fix that? How do you sit and blame all the men for your problems when it was also women who wanted these things to happen?

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            It’s kind of your own responsibility to be informed on who you are voting for… If you vote for someone you should understand what they have done and what they hope to do in the future…

            It’s not really the individuals fault that education standards have fallen, and more people every year are falling behind… Education has been gutted when we should be doing the opposite… And trump wants to further that by dismantling the department of education…

            Social media and the disturbing trend of not looking into or even reading about things you just read the headline of is another cause of lack of understanding.

            It’s on an individual to know and understand who they are voting for from actual legitimate sources that can be trusted and fact checked against other sources…

            But again who do you trust when any more it’s about who can get an article out faster than anyone else? Who cares if it’s not true your ad revenue is more important…

            But yeah it’s not the fault of an individual, everyone falls into the trap of believing something that isn’t true no fault of their own.

            But honestly, if you have no idea who trump is or what he is for after the last eight years of having to hear about him basically everywhere.

            Then yeah I guess how can you blame someone. Oh yeah I guess if they were somehow forced to by someone then sure…

            Otherwise yeah it’s on them and they made the choice without doing a good enough job of understanding who they voted for…

            Or they voted exactly who they wanted to vote for…

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      wHy WON’t ThESE Women wHO ARe beIng oppRESSeD And HAVInG tHEir rIghts erodeD sUPPort mEn LIke Me WHo aRE tHe rEaL VIcTImS aNd CleArlY so syMPaTHETic tO THEIR cAUSE???!111122345

      You are precisely the kind of insidious creep we want to avoid.

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        Who said women aren’t being oppressed? Who said that men are being oppressed? Who said I was a man?

        Sorry if you’ve been hurt, but that is no excuse for sexism. To be clear: lumping all men into a group is sexism. Grouping all people by some factor that is beyond their control is prejudice. It’s really as simple as that. Again, I’m sorry if you’ve been hurt, but that’s no excuse for that response.

        To repeat: the reality is that not all men back the ugliness that Trump and his supporters promote. To claim otherwise is to rob yourself of allies. It is self defeating.

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        It’s on society to fix society.

        Assuredly we must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.

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        How can we possibly win an election ever again if this is the attitude? If we don’t win back some men, we can’t just expect women to make up for it.

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          Yeah let’s try the moderate approach. Have to, really. Anything that even remotely might change things is out of the question. /s

          We genuinely don’t have much time until the planet burns. It’s scary, but we fucking have to do something. These money blinded fucks in power won’t do jack shit.

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            We absolutely need a left wing populist who will actually motivate the Democratic base in 2028. We can’t afford another neoliberal that nobody truly likes.

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              We need someone who isn’t so god-damned educated. I swear to God if I see another Yale graduate with a JD I’m going to lose my fucking mind. Someone who’s been brainwashed at an ivy League is the absolute worst person to represent the average American. They have zero idea of the issues people face on a day to day basis. I have a bunch of highly educated family members and they don’t know Jack shit.