Cake: good. Taking down people's bullshit views about feminism: good. Put the two together and it's very, very good.

Women across the UK are coming together on Twitter and Facebook to carry out one glorious mission: to bombard Conservative MP Philip Davies with photos of women eating cake.

Now, while we'd never question eating cake for the sake of it, you may be wondering why so many women are sending evidence of their cake consumption to a random male politician. Let us explain.

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Hey, @PhilipDaviesMP, I'm about to eat this cake. Bought it with my unequal pay. #feministzealot pic.twitter.com/KB7kq2TrpN — Catriona Stewart (@LadyCatHT) August 12, 2016

Philip Davies is not just any Conservative. He's a pro-Brexit, feminist-hating Conservative who believes women have LOADS of benefits over men - and that anyone who suggests otherwise must be either a militant feminist or one of the "politically correct males who pander to this nonsense". Riiight.

Back in July, Philip decided to speak at The International Conference on Men's Issues.

This is a conference organised by the Justice for Men and Boys party (J4MB). J4MB is a party that, as The Guardian reports, that is strongly anti-feminism, has launched initiatives against gender diversity in the workplace, and issues awards for "whiny feminist of the month".

Philip Davies issued a 45 minute speech about his beliefs that the justice system is skewed in favour of women.

That speech included this delighful comment:

"In this day and age the feminist zealots really do want women to have their cake and eat it. They fight for their version of equality on all the things that suit women – but are very quick to point out that women need special protections and treatment on other things."

Which is clearly absolute nonsense. It's so absurd, it's actually almost funny, as long as you desperately try to ignore the knowledge that there are many, many men out there who will read that comment and nod along.

And so a bunch of brilliant women decided to see the funny side of it. They also decided to take Philip's suggestion that feminists love to have cake and also eat it literally. Loads of women are now eating cake, taking pictures of that cake-eating, and tweeting those pictures to Philip Davies. Someone even started a Facebook group called 'Women Eating Cake'.

It's glorious.

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No apologies to @PhilipDaviesMP for having cake and eating it! #feministzealot #letthemeatcake pic.twitter.com/EpvMNGBvg9 — Hanna Thomas Uose (@hannathomas) August 12, 2016

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@PhilipDaviesMP I'm a big feminist so i'll have a BIG cake to eat #philipdavies #feministseatcake pic.twitter.com/jx6JfqLBBS — Lucy Parr (@Lucy_Parr) August 12, 2016

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Cake I baked for Tory MP Philip Davies, as he's obviously so jealous of women having theirs and eating it too: pic.twitter.com/KL3APdSRqB — Nick Norton (@OnlyForKoolKids) August 12, 2016

Long may the cake-eating and equality-creating continue.

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