Lysistrata of the 21st century. Why do women increasingly prefer to live without men and what does politics have to do with it?

After Donald Trump's victory in the US presidential election, the radical feminist movement from South Korea 4B became very popular among American women, whose supporters are calling for a complete boycott of men. Shortly after the election results were announced, TikTok videos mentioning 4B were viewed hundreds of thousands of times, Google searches for him increased manifold, and one widely shared post-election tweet about the 4B movement received 450,000 likes and 21 million views.

Women are furious at the men who helped the former US president win again. They called their version of the boycott “4 no” and “Lysistrata,” after the heroine of Aristophanes’ well-known comedy of the same name, who decided to end the war by convincing Greek women to give up sex with men. But the 4B movement's call for women to give up all intimacy with men is less about punishing men and more about ensuring the safety of women who feel unsafe in a world where sexists and misogynists are in power.

Young women on social media are encouraging each other to embrace the 4B principles as a matter of survival. “If you want to live long, stop dating men,” one wrote. “Don't have sex with men,” writes another , “If you get pregnant and there are complications, doctors will just watch you die. Any man who even wants to have sex with you wants to knowingly put you at risk of pregnancy and subsequent death.”

Mrs. Kim Ji Young

It is quite unexpected that such a radical movement originated in South Korea. This country is associated mainly with high technology and progressive modern culture. South Korean goods, TV series, and video content on the Internet are very popular all over the world. But, apparently, in everyday reality, not everything is as good as it is shown for export. There are very serious problems within this seemingly prosperous and prosperous country.

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