NOTES FROM 9TAILEDVIXEN’S 1ST WEEK OF NOVEMBER 2024:
1. U.S. Elections Catastrophe
In truth, to name it a catastrophe is an understatement.
I bear in mind the final time the Orange Hitler was in energy – there was a large spike in violence towards ladies worldwide.
And anti-violence towards ladies activists and ladies’s human rights defenders have been working flat-out to attempt to stem the tide and assist victims.
Now we’ve got to do all of it once more for 4 years – extra ladies’s and ladies’ lives blighted or misplaced, an exponential improve within the workloads of activists, advocates and ladies’s organisations and so forth.
I’m nonetheless in the course of recovering from burnout and mark my phrases, extra of my sister activists and advocates shall be affected by burnout by the point the Marmalade Mussolini’s second Reign of Terror is completed.
2. This Week in Korean Girls’s Information
Trump re-election sparks curiosity in South Korea’s ‘4B’ motion amongst American ladies
The election of Donald Trump as the following U.S. president has triggered a surge of social media posts and web search curiosity in South Korea’s fringe feminist “4B” motion, which calls on ladies to chorus from relationship, having intercourse with males, having youngsters and marrying males.
Throughout TikTok, dozens of American ladies upset by Tuesday’s election outcomes have posted movies stating their intention to take part in their very own model of the 4B pattern. Over 200,000 folks regarded up the “4B motion” on Google on Wednesday, making it one of many high trending matters on the net search engine.
The 4B pattern, which started in South Korea 2018 within the wake of the #MeToo motion, has develop into a means for some ladies to protest misogyny, gender discrimination and violence towards ladies, in keeping with Meera Choi, a Ph.D. candidate within the division of sociology at Yale College who research heterosexual refusal amongst South Korean ladies.
2. Why is North Korea’s ladies’s soccer group so good?
North Korea’s ladies have received one other U-20 World Cup. It is their third so far, which means they be a part of Germany and the US as the one three-time champions of the match. In 2024, North Korea’s ladies have additionally received the U17 and U19 Asian championships, and in October, their U17 group received their third World Cup.
What’s it that makes a state that, in keeping with the United Nations, “doesn’t have any parallel within the modern world” so good at youth soccer?
https://www.dw.com/en/why-is-north-koreas-womens-football-team-so-good/a-70313505