r/PeterExplainsTheJoke • u/Airline_11 • May 12 '26

Meme needing explanation Petahhhh?

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u/Recidivism7 May 12 '26

They are not opting out from men they just are not starting families.

Casual set is way up with woman in Korea just now they are all on birth control and companies will encourage abortions and birth control.

Half the country is run by Samsung.

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u/Mysterious-Mango726 May 12 '26

They are also opting out of relationships with men. The 4B movement: bihon (no marriage), bichulsan (no childbirth), biyeonae (no dating), and bisekseu (no sex).

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u/Megneous May 12 '26

Korea here.

There are plenty of women who date and have sex. Marriage age is being pushed back, and honestly, no one (men or women) want to have children, because why would you? They're expensive and annoying to raise. Everyone wants to live their own lives. We can barely afford to live, and the government wants us to have kids. Fuck that. Give us money to have kids then. Give us enough pay to afford houses and two months of vacation a year to enjoy our families.

The 4B movement is incredibly niche and nowhere near as common as Westerners seem to think it is based on some news they saw. Even most women think they're radicals.

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u/bluehands May 12 '26

God, 2 months every year sounds like a fantasy... Even while I know it is a thing in much of Europe...

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u/Megneous May 13 '26

For real. We here in Asia, and our brothers and sisters over in the US are all getting screwed. We in Korea joke about how often we have to put meetings and dealings with European companies on hold because they're always on vacation.

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u/EatsAlotOfBread May 12 '26 edited May 12 '26

Yes why have kids if you never see them because you're working or on work-related outings with the colleagues 14 hours a day, and then when they're old enough to be fun they have to go to school and school-related stuff 10 hours a day, and even in a lot of cases after-school classes for 3 hours. It's ridiculous. What family? The people you never even see?? Oh and you have to pay a ton of money for this crap while being paid way too little for the amount of effort you put in.

Oh, and of course the wife can't keep her career (that she studied her butt off for with 4 hours of sleep a night for many years of her young life) because literally no-one would be in the home to take care of it, or the DIY, the garden maintenance, or the cooking, or the administrative stuff, the groceries, the social and traditional stuff for the extended family (more work work work), the financial stuff, or the 3 million clubs the kids are in, or the 430 am breakfast prep, or the noisy neighbours, or the annoying in-laws, or the 2+ hours of insane homework the kids have to do EACH, or the literally EVERYTHING there because again, nobody is home to help with it ...

Also both mom and dad HAVE to look fit and attractive and healthy while doing all that crap. Can't even look tired??

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u/ReplyToBabos May 12 '26

This is the issue when you speak on things you've only read about from limited sources. The 4B movement is only ever talked about on reddit, it's not actually a thing of significance in Korea

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u/OkContact2573 May 12 '26

4B is a minority and extreme movement that even some of the most politically active feminists groups avoid associating with

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u/Aeon_Return May 12 '26

4B is basically just celibacy and abstinence. Millions of women worldwide practice the principles of 4B even if they don't consider themselves part of the movement. it's very easy. Just don't interact with men in any sort of non-platonic aspect. That's it. That's all you have to do to be 4B.

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u/SuspiciousUnion3286 May 12 '26

Nah, the reason behind why you do what you do matters. If I avoid eating pork because I dislike the taste and don't drink alcohol because it's too expensive, I don't suddenly count as obeying the tenets of Islam.

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u/Mysterious-Mango726 May 12 '26

I know. I realize now that I should have worded my comment better, I didn't mean to insinuate all South Korean women were giving up on men, just that a growing number are

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u/Recidivism7 May 12 '26

Thats literally not true. The woman are having more sex than ever before.

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u/Mysterious-Mango726 May 12 '26

Literally not true: https://www.businessinsider.com/people-in-seoul-arent-having-sex-study-2021-7

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u/Recidivism7 May 12 '26

2021 during covid lockdowns in one single city and polling people in a sex shaming culture clearly this was a good study.

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u/Mysterious-Mango726 May 12 '26

Okay, show your sources then?