As soon as Donald Trump was reelected last week, an online protest movement began, led by women who voted for the Democratic Party’s candidate, Vice President Kamala Harris. Distraught women, mostly white, began recording videos of themselves screaming, crying and ranting against the Republican victory. In the videos, posted primarily on Instagram and TikTok, the women said they don’t feel safe around men now because their right to abortion won’t be secure with Trump in the White House.
This revolt has grown since the election, especially in blue states like Colorado, Vermont and Minnesota, and in Washington, D.C. Some women filmed themselves shaving their heads or getting tattoos in protest. Others pledged to wear blue bracelets or blue-beaded safety pins so like-minded women can identify each other and find solidarity. Many also announced their plan to join the so-called “4B movement”—meaning that for the next four years they refuse to date men, get married, have sex with men or have babies.
“It’s heartbreaking to know that in this country you only matter if you’re a straight white man,” said one woman named McKenna, who declined to give her last name in an interview with The Guardian. “It’s just devastating that we’re at this point. So I will not let another man touch me until I have my rights back.”
The 4B movement, which started in South Korea as a response to widespread sexual harassment, gets its name from four Korean words that all start with the letter “b”: bihon (heterosexual marriage), bichulsan (childbirth), biyeonae (dating) and bisekseu (sex). But the American version is different. Women in the U.S. are basically saying: “I’m going to punish men because the election didn’t go how I wanted it to.”
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Even secular counselors say the 4B movement is an unhealthy response. “I don’t think it’s a good idea to cut yourself off from romantic relationships or intimacy as a way to punish men or the administration—it ultimately ends up being self-punishing,” said Amy Chan, a dating coach interviewed by USA Today. “We won’t create a better world by seeing men as evil or as the enemy,” she added.
But here we are. The votes are counted, Donald Trump won in a landslide and political divisions have never triggered so much bitterness—to the point of dividing families. So how does the Christian community reach out to Left-leaning women who have become so furious that they seem emotionally unstable?
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