After Trump’s Victory, Thousands of Women Decide to Abandon Men

Make Dating Great Again? No, Thanks

Mary Carter
5 min readNov 12, 2024

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I never thought I’d write about women collectively giving up on romantic love. Not due to heartbreak, not due to pain, but as a conscious, organized political act. And the most ironic part? It took a presidential election to rethink something as personal as relationships.

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The movement is called 4B, born in South Korea, and it’s winning over thousands of young American women who’ve discovered a peculiar form of protest: simply… not participating. No marriage, no dating, no sex, no pregnancy. A silent but powerful opt-out.

I confess my first reaction was to laugh. That nervous laugh of someone thinking “this must be a joke, right?” But then I started seeing the numbers. Millions of TikTok views.

Watch the video and then draw your own conclusions

Thousands of young women sharing experiences. And the most fascinating part? It’s not bitterness I see in their words — it’s calm determination.

South Korea, land of K-pop and obsession with aesthetic perfection, transformed into an unexpected laboratory of feminine resistance. In 2017, while the West debated theories

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Mary Carter
Mary Carter

Written by Mary Carter

I share candid reflections on love, sex, and life's ups and downs, no holds barred and no taboos.

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