Many women, and some of their male “allies,” posit that feminism is still a necessary movement in Western countries. Between exaggerations regarding the wage gap, exaggerations regarding rape culture and exaggerations regarding women in STEM, many feminists launched a number of different campaigns – while others were hailed as “feminist heroes” for acts that they pursued individually. Without further ado, I present to you ten of the craziest feminist “causes” of 2015.

“Sweat Shaming”

In September, Guardian columnist Amy Roe recounted a Starbucks experience where she claimed to have been “sweat shamed” by a female patron. Roe stopped into Starbucks following a run and a well-dressed woman asked her if she had done a class or gone swimming. “Um, running. I just… sweat a lot,” Roe said before fleeing the scene of the verbal assault. “Once safely inside my car, I threw off my damp running cap and flipped up the hood of my sweatshirt in embarrassment. I wanted to dive deep into that Lululemon Scuba and never come back up for air. Eventually the caffeine kicked in and it hit me: I’d been sweat-shamed.” Apparently, Roe believes that she had been in an unsafe environment, where people waiting in line make small talk. She also asserted this to be an act of sexism – despite the fact that the person engaging with her was a woman.

“Air Conditioning is Sexist”

This summer, a staggering number of publications declared, unironically, that air conditioning is sexist because women can’t wear cute dresses to work. Men, many of these articles posit, should change their work-appropriate attire in order to accommodate a woman’s desire to wear sundresses and sandals. “Short suits” were what some recommended men wear to work, in order to justify upping the temperature. They conveniently ignored the fact that they were fighting imagined sexism by recommending that the entire other gender expose more skin in the workplace. One has to wonder how acceptable such a request would be if a man was making it of a woman.

Feminists Protest Domestic Violence Cuts at the Suffragette Premiere

In October, more than 100 feminists organized a protest at the film premiere of Suffragette in response to recent funding cuts to women’s domestic violence shelters and services. What these women omitted during the course of their protest, however, was the fact that there had been warnings prior to the cuts that the charities were required to extend their services to all people because of equality laws that state that services may not discriminate on the grounds of sex. These charities and foundations continued to turn away male domestic abuse and rape survivors, refusing to comply with non-discrimination laws – and funding was cut as a result. Quite literally, these women were protesting the fact that they were not permitted to discriminate against people on the basis of their sex, in the name of feminism. Slow clap?

Feminist Blogger Makes Yeast Infection Bread

After discovering that she was suffering from a yeast infection, feminist blogger Zoe Stavri decided that she was going to collect yeast from her own vagina in order to create sourdough bread. In addition to live-blogging the creation of the bread, she also shared her progress on Twitter, under the hasthtag #cuntsourdough. As if that wasn’t terrifying enough, Women’s Health Magazine held her up as a “feminist hero,” going as far as to recommend you feed it to people like, for example, a “sexist uncle,” in order to “regain control and remind yourself that you’re a badass bitch who no one can fuck with.” Ugh.

[Food] day 4 of #cuntsourdough, fed and moved to a bigger bowl pic.twitter.com/1bAwQ06nHA — Another Angry Woman (@stavvers) November 24, 2015

The Demand for Orgasm Equality

Guardian columnist Jessica Valenti set off a wave of columns after she penned an op-ed demanding that women receive “orgasm equality” based on information that indicates that women have less orgasms than men. What Valenti failed to acknowledge was a very real, and common, medical condition known as anorgasmia. Anorgasmia is the condition where someone is unable to orgasm despite having adequate stimulation, and impacts an estimated 10-15% of women. It’s also been proven that some women have orgasms and don’t know it, while others are incapable of climaxing through certain specific sexual experiences, including intercourse. Valenti is, knowingly or not, arguing that women should demand – DEMAND – sexual situations where they dictate duration and type of sexual experience. That doesn’t sound rapey at all.

Glitter Pits

Feminists have traded in dying overgrown body hair for clogging the pores under aforementioned overgrown body hair with copolymer plastics and aluminum foil. Yes, it is true: The latest fashion trend in the feminist world appears to be adorning unshaved armpits with – you guessed it – glitter. According to Bustle, this “encourages women to apply glitter to their under arms in the name of equality, rather than promote society’s body hair norms.” According to yours truly, however, it’s exactly what one can expect after a movement has achieved their desired results but still wants to stay relevant. I can think of no better indication that feminism has overstayed its welcome than the existence of Glitter Pits.

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“The Word ‘Too’ is Sexist”

Huffington Post’s Cameron Schaeffer found herself receiving a significant amount of attention when she, post epiphany, brazenly declared the word “too” to be a sexist word. Too. “My epiphany about this word surprised me. I view myself as a well-versed feminist, but I never realized how deeply a three-letter adverb could cut,” she wrote. “Of course I’m not deeply offended by something as innocent as my friend thinking my hair is too short or too long. What makes me furious is the constant strain on females to find their unreachable perfect self.” I’m not sure much additional commentary is needed where this one is concerned.

#MasculinitySoFragile

One of the favorite talking points of feminists who believe in the existence of a Western patriarchy and are attempting to garner support will declare that “Patriarchy hurts men too.” Specifically, that this “Patriarchy” teaches men that emotions are bad. In an effort to smash that, feminists bravely took to Twitter, launching the #MasculinitySoFragile hashtag. In a way to destroy the “patriarchal” way in which men are seen as weak for emotion – much like the feminist “Male Tears” mugs – feminists decided to attack masculinity itself by attempting to portray masculinity as inherently violent. “Perhaps one of the most egregious effects of the fragility of masculinity is in how when men’s advances are rejected, it’s almost expected of them to react violently,” wrote The Mary Sue’s Jessica Lachenal, while one Twitter user wrote “#MasculinitySoFragile that men threaten, hurt & even kill women who say no to their advances, while others wonder why we don’t just say ‘no.’”

If masculinity is so fragile, why do you need a safe space to protect yourself from it? #MasculinitySoFragile pic.twitter.com/4lSIexQ24a — Will Saunders (@tufc27) November 10, 2015

Anger Over the Physical Appearance of a Muppet

Using the feminist flag in order to attack the visual appearance of fictional characters is nothing new. It has been done for comics, video games and toys. This year, however, one of the biggest sources of feminist disapproval came in the form of Kermit the Frog’s newest girlfriend, Denise. Guardian writer Megan Carpentier stated: “While the audience of the 1980s might’ve been filled with the fear of powerful women and willing to sympathise with the ‘plight’ of the lesser men who loved them (or at least profited handsomely off them) – and even understood and supported men’s urge to date their exes’ younger, dumber Plasticine lookalikes – the situation has changed in 2015,” and that Miss Piggy is a “beloved feminist icon.” Apparently you can be a physically abusive pile of cloth and fake hair and still be a “feminist icon.” This anger carried over to Twitter, where many asserted that Denise being young and thin was a negative message to send. Somehow.

#GiveYourMoneyToWomen

What is the single best way to prove that you are a strong, capable woman who doesn’t need a man to take care of her? Demand that men give you money for no reason. Women under the hashtag #GiveYourMoneyToWomen requested money for makeup, shoes and fuzzy blankets. One woman stated that people who did not agree with the stupid hashtag were proof of it being hard to be a woman in the world. “The opposition to #GiveYourMoneyToWomen from men just proves how they don’t get what a chore is for women to exist online or…anywhere.” After my own critical contribution, I was told that the hashtag was formed in order to help homeless women of color; however, the first three uses of the hashtag were:

Ladies, post your PayPals. It's Friday & I'm sure men have #FF you because they've "learned so much". #GiveYourMoneyToWomen — Lauren Chief Elk (@ChiefElk) May 29, 2015

It's time for them to compensate your intellectual and emotional labor. #GiveYourMoneyToWomen — Lauren Chief Elk (@ChiefElk) May 29, 2015

We deserve our wife, girlfriend, woman existing in this world bonuses aka rightful compensation. #GiveYourMoneyToWomen — Lauren Chief Elk (@ChiefElk) May 29, 2015

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