The6B4T movement is an onlineradical feminist movement that spread fromSouth Korea whose members organize in opposition tosexism andpatriarchal structures.[1] A notable aspect of the 6B4T movement is its members' commitment to nevermarry men, or haveheterosexualsexual relations, norbear children.[2]
Beginning in 2019, the movement grew out of the South Korean4B movement, whose members also renounce sex, child-rearing, dating, and marriage with men.[3][4][5][6] InKorean-language abbreviation,[7] "6B" refers to the same four commandments of the 4B movement as well as not buying products viewed as sexist (Korean: 비소비;Hanja: 非消費;RR: bisobi) and supporting others in the movement (비돕비;非돕非;bidopbi), while "4T" refers to rejecting strict beauty standards (탈코르셋;脫corset;talkoreuset), hypersexual depictions of women in Japaneseotaku culture (탈오타쿠;脫otaku;tarotaku),religion (탈종교;脫宗敎;taljonggyo), andidol culture (탈아이돌;脫idol;taraidol).[7][5][6][8][9]
The 6B4T movement spread to young female users of the Chinesesocial networkDouban and became popular among well-educated women.[10][8][9] It was a fringe element in theChinese feminist movement, but it gained additional unintended attention in 2021 for the fact that it caught the attention of Chinese government censors.[10][5][11] In April of that year, several Douban groups associated with the movement were shut down and the phrase "6B4T" was banned from the platform.[10][5][6][12]