Microfeminism describes small but intentional ways women push back against deep-seated gender expectations and biases: a teacher calling the dad on a kid’s emergency contact form when both parents are listed. Asking “Men’s team or women’s team?” when someone brings up a game they just watched.
It’s dismantling the patriarchy, but in bite-sized ways. Financial coach and author Tori Dunlap is a big fan of these little acts of feminism, so last month, she asked her 2 million followers to tell her “the most unhinged way that you practice micro feminism in your life”.
She didn’t want cutesy, soft-pedalling answers, she told people on TikTok and Instagram. “I’m not talking about ‘assuming the doctor is a woman,’ give me insane ones thx,” Dunlap wrote.
Women in the comments did not disappoint. Some of our favourite responses from the prompt include:
“I give men unsolicited tips at the gym.”
“I change the voice on my Alexa to a male voice so...
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