
We Have to Look: The Reactions to Charlie Kirk's AssassinationSep 11
a catalog of the justifications and celebratory reactions to the murder of charlie kirk
Nov 13, 2024
Donald Trump’s recent electoral victory may have been sweeping, but in one regard it fell short: the shock and outrage it elicited among the left didn’t quite reach 2016 levels. Despite this, a wave of radical feminists seeking an effective strategy for staging a long-term collective meltdown recently found it this week in the strangest of places: South Korea’s 4B movement.
The 4B movement, which might be more accurately translated as 4N (four “no’s”), involves refraining from dating, marrying, having sex, or having children — with men. Women are signing up by publicly shaving their heads, which also happens to correlate with social media attention.
The 4B movement emerged in Korean social media communities in the late 2010s as a response to what their even-more-disgruntled Western sisters on Wikipedia call the “heteronormative” nature of Korean society. The Korean feminists who ignited the trend may have failed to notice that the practice had already been widely, if inadvertently, adopted by the entire country, which has one of the world’s lowest fertility rates.