'You Are In Danger': How US Women Are Responding To Trump's Victory

Women in the USA have been flooding social media with reactions to Donald Trump's win in the Presidential elections. A TikToker has some extreme advice for women in relationships with Trump supporters. "If he voted for that man, you need to leave him," claims user @kaybeecees in a now-viral video. The woman cited Trump's views on reproductive rights and his legal disputes to urge women to get out of relationships with his supporters. “The worst men among us have now been emboldened,” she said, referencing Trump’s victory over Kamala Harris.

Women's Views On Donald Trump Win

In a six-minute rant, TikToker kaybeecees from Alabama desperately doled out a long list of to-dos for women in America since Donald Trump got voted. In a video titled 'Women – take these steps',  she said, “I took the morning to grieve. That’s all the time we had, now is your time to start making a plan." 

Kaybeecees told women to leave their husbands if they voted "differently" in the November 5 election. “If he voted for that man, you need to leave him. You need to leave him. I know you love him, I know you think he can change…but especially if you are married to him, you are in a lot of danger” she said. 

The woman also warned women against getting married in the future. “If you do, get a really, really strong prenup, but I can’t promise you that that’s going to be honoured,” she cautioned, referring to right-wing attacks on no-fault divorce. “It’s possible in the future that you’re not gonna be allowed to divorce him."

Kaybeecees also claimed that her own dream of having a family disappeared “forever” due to Trump’s election. She also urged women to delete their menstrual cycle tracker apps, referring to the six-week abortion bans in some states and concerns about data privacy that rose during the Dobbs decision in 2022.

The TikToker also recommended women to carry a weapon and invest in self-defence classes so that they "don't get raped." She then said she wasn't trying to create panic “I’m just being very real, we are having a heart-to-heart right now... I know it’s gonna be okay … because we’re going to make sure it’s gonna be okay.”

Turning To 4B Movement

According to a report in the New York Times, many American women have now collectively vowed off relationships and sex since Trump was elected. This also comes in the wake of the failure of three referendums that would have protected abortion rights in Florida, Nebraska and South Dakota.

the 4B movement better be in effect. want the world to listen… start decreasing their population and economy.

there’s no country to run if the birth rates start decreasing. don’t give in until they start listening. then they will start to panic pic.twitter.com/22ny1f95ub

— ✭ 𝖙𝖔𝖗𝖗 𝖑𝖛𝖘 𝖍𝖔𝖑𝖑𝖞 ✭ (@chrissturnsgf) November 6, 2024

This 'radical feminist' movement called 4B originated in South Korea and represents four rules that start with "bi," meaning "no" in Korean. 

"Bihon" is refusing to get into a heterosexual marriage; "Bichulsan" is refusing to have a child; "Biyeonae" is refusing to date; and "Bisekseu" is refusing to indulge in heterosexual sexual relationships. 

The movement originated in 2019 but has recently gained major popularity worldwide, with many women using the 4B as a sign of protest against patriarchal clutches on women's bodies. Through celibacy, women are asserting their autonomy and rejecting heteronormative expectations.

'Cancelling Out' Votes

On a lighter side of TikTok, young American women started a meme trend where they’d vote solely to "cancel out" a loved one's vote if they supported a different candidate. According to a recent study by the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, about 30% of Americans are in relationships with people with opposing political views. 

The trend was started by TikTok user, Isabella Hayden, who claimed she was heading out to 'cancel out' her dad's vote. Soon, the meme went viral, with many users recreating it with their own versions. In one such TikTok, a user made an edit of Taylor Swift and her cat going to the polling station to 'cancel out' her dad's vote.

Even Hope Walz, Democrat Vice President nominee Tim Walz's daughter, took part in the trend. She first started the trend normally -- "I have to cancel out my dad's vote," she wrote in the caption, which then transitions to "Just kidding! My dad is literally running for Vice President." The video was posted to the Kamala HQ TikTok account.

Hope Walz's Reaction To Trump-Vance Win

After the election results were out, Hope Walz posted a heartfelt video to her TikTok, sharing her “initial post-election thoughts.” While eating mac and cheese and watching the Netflix show Outer Banks, she expressed, "I’ve officially reached the point of anger, and I’m not an angry person, so I’m just trying to channel it."

“This country does not deserve Kamala Harris,” Hope said, adding, “That woman should go live her best life wherever she wants, doing whatever she wants because we don’t deserve her at this point." She also claimed that the people who "delivered" this election were women of colour, yet "we failed them."

The 23-year-old added, “These people have to live in their own skin, as in JD Vance and Donald Trump have to be JD Vance and Donald Trump, and that is not a punishment I’d wish upon anybody but those two individuals. I’m just really grateful I am who I am, and I’m on the side of love and hope and joy and progress.”

“I’m giving myself the week to be sad and to mourn what could’ve been, what should’ve been... We got this, America. We're going to be OK," Hope said. During the Democratic National Convention in August, Tim Walz shared his and his wife Gwen's difficult journey with assisted reproductive technologies to conceive Hope and her brother Gus.