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During the early morning of Wednesday, November 6, the 2024 presidential election was officially called for Donald Trump. Since then, it's been reported by multiple outlets that he won each of America's six swing states.

While there's much talk about what a Trump administration will bring, the social impacts of his electoral victory have kicked into high gear. Already, reactions on the internet reveal that the former president's return to power is exasperating already growing tensions between women and men.

Surging interest in the 4B movement

The 4B movement originates from South Korea and, in a nutshell, amounts to women abstaining from dating, marrying, sleeping with, or having children with men. South Korean women who embraced the 4B movement have done so as a means of protesting what they deem as misogyny and poor treatment from the men around them.

Though, since the outcome of the 2024 presidential race, American women are currently promoting the 4B movement on social media. Google Trends has also reflected growing amounts of searches pertaining to the 4B movement post Wednesday's election results.

"Your body, our choice"

Following Trump's return to power, young men on social media have come under fire for telling women "your body, our choice." This is an inverse and intentional mockery of the pro-choice "my body, my choice" slogan.

However, this revised mantra isn't just limited to the internet. In the days after November 5, multiple reports state even young boys in schools are going up to girls around them and saying "your body, my choice."

On TikTok, in particular, videos continue to emerge of people reporting these cases, detailing their reactions, and advising men and boys not to speak to women and girls in this manner.

The writing has been on the wall

Even before Trump won reelection, conflict between the two genders was alive and well. Multiple studies show while young women are leaning more to the left of the political spectrum, a growing number of young men are embracing the political right.

Add to this, you have the manosphere and red pill movements, which have come under fire for heralding men like Andrew Tate, who remains under indictment for human trafficking and rape in multiple countries.

Other figures in the manosphere and red pill spaces promote the ideas of men having dominance over women, along with women staying at home, forgoing careers, and accepting infidelity from their boyfriends and husbands.

Moving forward, it remains to be seen what the future holds for gender relations.