2014 was a strange time for feminism. Anyone who was Very Online™ when Tumblr was in its heyday and when Lena Dunham’s Girls hit streaming sites for the first time can probably now acknowledge, with a little bit of humility, that our priorities were off.
Celebrities declaring themselves “a feminist” – or “not a feminist” – were headline-worthy utterances in themselves, people opened their purses to purchase T-shirts that read “this is what a feminist looks like”, and Twitter attempted to have genuine, good-faith conversations about whether Beyoncé was a feminist icon or not.
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