While to some, 4B’s tenets might sound radical, to Michaela Thomas, a 21-year-old artist who lives in Georgia, 4B is simply a way to “show people that actions have consequences”. Thomas learned about 4B online a year or so ago, she said, and attributes the recent surge in interest to young men voting for Republican candidates.
“Young men expect sex, but they also want us to not be able to have access to abortion. They can’t have both,” she said, referring to many Republican leaders’ antiabortion stance. “Young women don’t want to be intimate with men who don’t fight for women’s rights; it’s showing they don’t respect us,” she added.
Abortion as a form of birth control…Hasn’t she ever heard of the pill or condoms? And abortion as a means of birth control is not a woman’s right, as any sensible woman would agree.
[…] In the hours after Trump’s victory, young women took to sharing posts breaking down the 4B movement on social media. As a concept, “sex strikes” go back at least as far as the ancient Greek play Lysistrata, in which women swore off sex to protest the Peloponnesian War. In the US, singer Janelle Monae suggested one in 2017. Actress Julia Fox has said she’s been celibate for more than two years in response to the overturning of Roe.
Oh noes! Obese purple-haired women refusing to have sex, even though they wouldn’t have gotten laid anyway! If only we had known beforehand. Kamala would have romped in!
What’s the scientific term to describe women like this? Oh yeah: batshit crazy.
Breanne Fahs, a professor of women and gender studies at Arizona State University, said in the aftermath of the election, “Young women do not trust that their reproductive rights are secure, so they are turning to new ways to assert their agency and reclaim a sense of control over their bodies.”
You mean they didn’t have the control of their bodies before?
She noted 4B is “everywhere” at the moment and pointed to a number of challenges faced by women, such as pressures in personal relationships “to accommodate men’s desires and fantasies” and broader issues such as increased misogyny.
The messaging here is obvious. Anyone who voted for Trump is a misogynist, is against women’s rights and hates women. Of course this is total bullshit as anyone who has taken even a casual look at what Trump has actually said about abortion and women’s rights knows.
As for going on sex strikes, for 99 per cent of them it’s not going to make an inch of difference. As for the one per cent, they’ll last a few days at most before putting it out again. By the way, doesn’t going on a sex strike imply that you’re some kind of unpaid prostitute?
And let’s not talk about the implication that all that men are after is sex. I mean, if you’re going to call out misogyny what better way to do it than by showing the world how much of a misandrist you are?
I won’t get into the even more daft stuff such as the head shaving etc. Head over to X if you want to learn more and have a good laugh.
Let’s face it. Conservative and right-wing women are smarter, sexier, more attractive and don’t need to go on a sex strike just to make a point.
At the end of the day, though, it’s all a bit of a joke.
What’s much more insidious is those who are, both male and female, proudly proclaiming that they have cut all ties with close friends, relatives, husbands, wives, parents, children, girlfriends or boyfriends, all because they voted for Trump. Even going as far as saying: ‘Hate has no room here,’ while blissfully unaware of what irony means.
Trump Derangement Syndrome isn’t just a mental disorder: it’s a toxic mental disorder.
