‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script (opens in new tab)

The practice is not entirely serious – but it raises awareness of the many sexist tropes built into everyday lifeWhen Tori Dunlap writes a letter or email to a heterosexual couple, she puts the woman’s name first in the greeting. When her good friend got married, Dunlap waited until the name-change documents were officially signed to update her surname in her phone contact. These tiny rebellions are not activism. They are “microfeminisms”, or what Dunlap, 31, describes as “little actions for ...