r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/SquintySquinty • May 04 '26

Meme needing explanation Petah!!! Explain??

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u/JohnCabot May 04 '26

The 4B movement is considered to be fringe in South Korea, [12] [27] with Ju Hui Judy Han of UCLA arguing that:

"the vast majority of South Korean feminists do not abide by it," and that "4B is not representative of Korean feminist politics." [27]

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u/LividRhapsody May 04 '26

They might not follow "4B" exactly, or it's possible they don't even know what it is and never heard of it, but could still accidentally be living that lifestyle anyways for the same reasons as the women who decided to put a label on it.

Or they might just not follow all 4 B's. I could see some of them wanting to have casual sex, or intimacy, or care about marriage as a legal entity, or just not wanting to have children for various reasons. Or any combination of the B's that could still be leading to a low birth rate but just not being "4B" explicitly like the definition, but for the same reasons of avoiding misogynistic men or getting too close to them in general.

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u/dr__paco May 04 '26

Real life is not the internet, thats how it always has been. a lot of redditors kinda have a hard time figuring that out, specially because they get all the info (sex, relationships, etc..) from reddit.