The 4B movement, which gained traction on TikTok following Donald Trump's reelection, traces its roots back to 2016 when the 'Escape the Corset' trend emerged on South Korean social media. This sparked an online dialogue among women about their constraints within a patriarchal society. The South Korean feminist movement advocates for the rejection of childbirth, marriage, dating, and sex. One notable aspect of this trend—women shaving their heads in protest against Donald Trump—has received less attention. This act is believed to symbolize a way of repelling men from women. Hair, and how it is styled, can be political, personal, and a symbol of femininity.
Maria Barbieri, who posted under the handle @girl_dumphim, initiated the trend, as reported by Newsweek. In her now-deleted post, Barbieri stated that she woke up 'feeling spicy,' using both a razor and clippers while declaring 'f*** being all the things that the patriarchy wants us to be because, clearly, they don't give a s*** about us.' Another user, Sidney, known as @sidneyandthecity, shared that she 'took the clippers to my head and shaved it all off' to reclaim 'the narrative,' as interviewed by Newsweek. The backlash was immediate. Cancer survivors and women with alopecia criticized the trend, feeling personally targeted by the notion that having no hair makes them unattractive to men. TikTok user Noell Babb, a 27-year-old cancer survivor, called out the posts, stating that 'shaving your head to try and correlate baldness to being unattractive is a slap in the face to those who lost their hair not by choice, but from poison aka cancer treatment.'
Others resorted to mockery to condemn the trend. User _ajtsanchez posted: 'Trump still our next president. Now you're just bald runnin around bald headed.' Trump supporter @ginacorbin posted a video where she pretended to start shaving her head before exclaiming: 'Are you kidding!' President-elect Donald Trump and the Republican Party have faced criticism from many women's rights organizations for their stance on female issues. Restricting women’s access to abortion across the US is a significant part of Trump's agenda. It was three Supreme Court Justices appointed by Trump who shifted the balance and overturned Roe v. Wade in 2022, eliminating abortion as a federal right that had stood since 1973. Trump has also been accused of sexual assault by multiple women and was found liable for sexual abuse, paying one victim €74 million ($80 million) in damages.
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