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The anti-Trump ‘sex boycott’ is peak liberal hysteria

No, America is not about to turn into The Handmaid’s Tale.

Jenny Holland

Topics Feminism Politics USA

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The reality that Donald Trump will be the next US president is finally sinking in. And no group has lost their minds over this quite like liberal women – some of whom are, quite literally, fearing for their lives and freedoms right now.

Over in blue-cloud cuckoo land, women have been convinced by the mainstream media that Trump is about to start personally tracking their menstrual cycles and throwing red cloaks over them like in The Handmaid’s Tale. They are pissed off. And they want you to know about it.

Enter 4B, an online movement that originated in South Korea, which encourages young women to say no to four things: heterosexual sex, dating, marriage and children. It is described by CNN as a ‘fringe feminist movement’ that peaked in South Korea in 2018, but it has since gained some traction in the US after the election. Last week, NBC reported that searches for 4B surged to ‘record levels in the US’ and were among the top trending searches for 48 hours in the wake of Trump’s victory. Typically, this has been driven by those American ladies who, back in 2016, thought that wearing a pussy hat would shake the patriarchy to its very foundations.

‘No more kitty-kat for moderate men’, said one 4B joiner-inner on social media. ‘No matter how kind, how respectful, how cute, men will still fucking hate you’, a different young woman recorded herself saying. She added: ‘I’m gonna start barking and getting fucking crazy.’

Another woman, whose greying locks indicated she was old enough to know better, told women to give ‘no attention to men. Delete and block [them]. Do not respond to them.’ Some have even filmed themselves shaving their heads in an attempt to make themselves look unappealing to men.

Of course, there’s an argument to be made here that these young women are just venting, as is their right. Perhaps we should just ignore them and let them run their mouths until they tire themselves out. I would agree with that for the most part.

However, it also brings two concerns to mind. First, what has the corporate media done to the minds of so many people that drives them to express pure, unadulterated hostility towards their fellow countrymen for having a different political opinion?

Second, it really brings home just how spoiled these women are. They have zero understanding of or appreciation for the back-breaking, often dangerous, physical work millions of men do every day to keep all our systems up and running. Systems like the power grid, heating, plumbing and energy production. All so that these women can excoriate those men from the comfort and safety of their cars and well-lit homes. Talk about privilege! The American liberal woman is possibly the most sheltered, protected woman in the history of the world. They would do well to show a bit of gratitude every now and then.

Of course, these liberal women would say their bodily autonomy and self-determination are on the line, hence their high levels of rage. But there is a big element of hysteria here. Trump is not a steadfast anti-abortion crusader, and has said multiple times that he would not institute a nationwide ban on abortion.

This liberal female rage is also, dare I say it, highly narcissistic. It puts the issue of abortion, however important it is, in a special sacred category that must come before economic survival, freedom of expression and parental rights. That take has already proven to be a vote-loser. Just ask Kamala Harris.

The reality is that young people today – and women especially – have been primed to think in exaggerated, black-and-white, catastrophic terms by years of woke indoctrination in schools and online. They really do think that Trump is going to turn America into some kind of Christian fundamentalist dystopia, despite what the evidence actually shows.

Hopefully, once their temper tantrum comes to an end, they’ll come back down to reality.

Jenny Holland is a former newspaper reporter and speechwriter. Visit her Substack here.

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Topics Feminism Politics USA

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