Telling men to be poisoned?
One Lithuanian shared information about a new movement in the US on his Facebook account.
“After the presidential election, educated white liberal women seem to have lost their sanity. Many of them posted videos showing uncontrollable emotional outbursts due to Trump’s victory… Liberal women telling each other to poison the men who voted for Trump!” – said the netizen.
The post follows the man’s train of thought. He also mentioned 4B, a women’s movement in South Korea that arose out of the high gender inequality in the country.
“Nothing shows the terrible psychological state some people are in like the current 4B movement among mentally deranged women.
For those who are wondering what 4B is, I will tell you that it is a movement that formed in South Korean feminist circles in the mid-to-late 2010s, when there was a wave of violence against women in the country and in protest against other manifestations of sexism and inequality in South Korean society. 4B is an abbreviation of four words starting with the word ‘bi’, which means ‘no’ in Korean,” the man explained.
4B contains Korean words bean, Bichulsan, biyeonae and bisexualwhich means “not to marry, not to give birth, not to meet and not have sexual relations with men”, abbreviation.
The netizen ended his post by noting that “these women should not reproduce anyway” and that men should be happy to be able to distinguish these women from their shaved heads.
A new movement
TikTok has really taken off on the platform recordswhich refer to deadly poisons. This movement was dubbed MATGA (Make Aqua Tofina Great Again). It’s a play on words, resisting the MAGA movement popularized by D.Trump (Make America Great Again).
AFP/”Scanpix” photo/Americans await the results of the US presidential election
After Trump’s election as US president, many women expressed frustration, pointing to his past offensive remarks about women, abortion rights and the case in which he was found guilty of sexual assault.
Noticedthat hate speech against women and girls has increased since the election, and the phrase “Your body, my choice” has moved from the internet to school playgrounds.
According to the Institute of Strategic Dialogue, after the election, 4,600 percent of the phrases “Your body, my choice” and “get back in the kitchen” have increased.
The MATGA movement seems to have started as a response to anti-women hate and its increased spread online.
A number of liberal TikTok and X users (mostly women) have started sharing the story of Giulio Tofano, a little-known Renaissance assassin story. She created an undetectable poison made from arsenic and deadly nightshades that she allegedly used to kill up to 600 men.
Legend has it that just a few drops of this poison “Aqua Tofana” was enough to kill a person. It is said that Tofana used them to help women escape from marriages with abusive husbands when divorce was impossible.
The poison had no taste or smell, and women kept it in cosmetic bottles so that men would not find it.
Taken seriously
“Women who can divorce their husbands, I need you to do so today. Women who can’t break up with their husbands, look at Aqua Tofana, wrote one TikTok user who contributed to the MATGA movement.
These videos, like most things on the internet, appear to be satirical in nature. In them, women imitate dripping into colored drinks.
The inscriptions “Your body, our choice” or “Your body, my choice” are also visible. This slogan on election night announced of the extreme right-wing Internet trolisTrump’s dinner guest Nick Fuentes. This is an offensive interpretation of the slogan “my body, my choice” which aims to establish women’s autonomy.
The MATGA movement caused outrage among some Republicans.
Trump’s ally, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene of Georgia wrote on her X account: “FBI, these are public death threats and must be investigated!” These women are advising others how to poison and kill men because they are angry about the election…better chase these psychopaths!”
Some male users also took the posts too seriously. One of them said: “Now that they have failed, they want to kill us. How democratic.”
Another man threatened that “wives threaten to poison their husbands. Waitresses threaten to poison their conservative customers.”
Like the FBI stated According to The Times, the posts prompted the public to report threats of physical violence.
“The FBI investigates federal crimes and threats to national security. We will never open an investigation solely for First Amendment-protected activity,” the spokesman said.
Reacting to Trump’s victory, some women online began to consider about South Korea’s 4B movement, in which women sympathizers pledge to abstain from dating, sex, marriage and childbirth.
15min verdict: missing context. The MATGA movement emerged online as a response to the hatred of women and their rights that spread after Trump’s re-election. However, such threats are more satirical. They should not be accepted directly.
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Source: www.15min.lt
