‘Hello ladies and sons of ladies’: women are using ‘microfeminisms’ to flip the gender script ^46.6%

The Guardian - By Alaina Demopoulos - 5/26/2026, 11:00 AM

Anecdotal 21.2% - Negativity Bias 17.1% - Hasty Generalization 14.7%

When 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... more