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 mom and dad 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 over 2 million followers to tell her “the most unhinged way that you practice micro feminism in your life.”
She didn’t want cutesy, soft-pedaling 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 favorite responses from the prompt include:
“I give men unsolicited tips at the gym.”
