The War Of The Sexes Is Going To Get Better

A respectful disagreement with the Highly Respected Scott Greer

In a recent Substack post by Scott Greer, The War Of The Sexes Is Going To Get Worse, he compares the low fertility rates and gender divide in South Korea to America. Within the context of the “4B” movement and the election results, Scott predicts gender issues will worsen in America. In this post I explain why I’m more optimistic about this issue. I also should note I’m a paid subscriber to Highly Respected, which I highly recommend. I come in peace.

South Korean vs. American Culture

It’s difficult to compare South Koren and American cultures for a few reasons. South Korea is essentially an ethnostate. South Korea is 96% ethnically Korean, whereas only ~58% of Americans are ethnically European. America also tends to favor and even worship certain ethnicities over others. This significant difference in homogeneity is important.

Korean culture is over 5,000 years old with its roots primarily in Confucianism. At a high-level, there’s a stronger emphasis on respecting your elders, prioritizing the collective, and mobility through education. American culture is barely 250 years old and has its roots in a philosophy of individual freedom, self-reliance, and upward mobility through willpower.

Korean culture is less dominated by American culture than most developed nations; hence the popularity of K-Pop in Korea over dominance of wildebeasts like Lizzo and hoodrats like Megan Thee Stalion. American culture is barely European and it tends to embrace what appeals to blacks, transsexuals, and gay men.

South Korea also has an extremely tight immigration policy. To become a cititzen, you need to be highly proficient in Korean, able to support yourself financially, and have an understanding of Korean culture. America’s current immigration policy in comparsion only requires a non-European pulse.

I think you get my point. Indeed, South Korea and America are both highly developed, and there’s definitely similarities while comparing the gender divide data at a high-level, but understanding the context isn’t as simple as comparing NYC to LA. They’re two very different worlds.

The 4B Movement

The apparently real “4B” movement in South Korea and America is hard to take seriously without any data to prove its existence. No one knows if South Korean girls are actually abstinent. Even if this was being measured, data on sexual behavior should be met with extreme skepticism given people are incentivized to lie to not disrupt how they see themselves or how others may perceive them. Common sense requires you to take a girl’s self-reported “bodycount” and multiply it by 3.

One thing both movements have in common is they’re very online and female-led, which in the world of TikTok equates to a lot of yapping to channel their sexual frustration and collect likes. I don’t know how sexual dynamics are in South Korea, but in America, girls who date liberal men are eager to cheat on them with men who aren’t faggots. Every girl who claims to be abstinent doesn’t suddenlty lose her susceptibility to bravado, charm, and status. I repeat myself, but it’s very hard to take such movements seriously.

Voting Trends

I don’t know South Korean politics well enough to say, but I’ll take Scott’s word that “Politicians explicitly appeal to sexual rage. Liberals campaign on explicit feminism and deride the opposition as incels. Conservatives, on the other hand, claim feminism oppresses men and vow to defang its worst effects.” This was not the case in the American 2024 election.

Indeed, the Kamala Harris campaign was “comically girlboss”, with a failed attempt to appeal to men by promoting strange homosexuals like Tim Walz and Harry Sisson while portraying an offensive vision of masculinity in their ads, as I wrote about in The Male Democrat. By trotting out washed up actors and musty artists from the early 2000’s, the campaign was designed to appeal to underfucked millennial women.

Trump’s campaign on the other hand didn’t say much about feminism at all, nor did it try to appeal to incels. Donald Trump is a playboy real estate magnate from NYC who shamelessly loves to have sex with beautiful women. Trump also doesn’t hate women; he openly loves his beautiful wife Melania and has never hid his love for hot girls. Trump is the opposite of an incel.

Trump brought out men like Hulk Hogan to his high-octane rallies, appealing to the nostalgia of millennial men who remember a world that wasn’t cucked. He appeared on podcasts with a primarily male, often Gen Z audience. He also surrounds himself with men who clearly don’t have much resentment towards women. JD Vance is a happily married man with an attractive wife. Elon Musk has 12 kids with several women. RFK Jr. is probably a sex addict. Matt Gaetz has been hit with multiple “sex scandals”, which usually boils down to the crime of having a normal sex drive as a white man who isn’t gay.

Trump’s campaign also appealed to families by focusing on the dangers of letting men use the bathroom with women and competing against them in sports, the rise of crime in cities, the fentanyl crisis, and the dangers that come with flooding the nation with peasants. For both mothers and fathers who care about their children, the choice of who to vote for wasn’t difficult.

Overall, Trump didn’t win votes of young men by appealing to incels. He won their votes by, as Scott accurately puts, having a message that “resonated with young men upset with a society that imposed wokeness on them and robbed them of their ability to be themselves.” Overall, the Trump vision reflected positive masculinity over Kamala’s campaign that appealed to the delusions of the sexually frustrated millennial quirk chungus.

The difference in these two campaign strategies, the results they produced, and the reality of female nature, is why I’m optimistic about the gender divide fizzling out.