Women Are Sharing Their Most Delightfully Petty Acts Of 'Microfeminism'

"Calling male work superiors 'girl' after they refer to me as 'bro.'"

Lifestyle Reporter, HuffPost

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 give men unsolicited tips at the........

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