To imply that Susan Sarandon, who has dedicated much of her life to human-rights activism, objects to the feminist label because she is "right-wing" is disingenuous.
In an address to an International Women's Day breakfast in which he compared himself to former American president Richard Nixon, Abbott said his wife quipped having three daughters helped turn an "unreconstructed bloke into a feminist".
It was unbearable to watch Miliband (who might not be 100% my cup of tea in lots of ways, and some of his ideas are bonkers, but he is a genuine supporter of women and I'm sure he would put his hand on his heart and say he is a feminist) be lectured by Brand on the uselessness of the female vote.
As a socialist and feminist, I'm astonished that anyone could have anything but solidarity for sex workers.
As a feminist who has devoted her entire adult life to campaigning against unspeakable atrocities toward women committed by violent men, I find the idea of Brown's "rebranding" as a "hard man" ready to "pummel David Cameron into defeat with his bare fist" deeply offensive.
In recent years, Ginsburg, who was appointed to the supreme court by Bill Clinton in 1993, has become a feminist icon among many millennials and, as "the Notorious RBG", has spawned a number of memes.
But other shows also gave this year's fringe a feminist flavour.
Campaigners long vilified as humourless, sexless feminist nags and hags have won.
"Kembra," Hegarty says, with a certain amount of jealous awe, is "the most hardcore future feminist really".
In fact, the Mirrenised, which is to say the ever more idealised monarch of public wishfulness, may partly account for the consternation, last week, when the publication of a group photograph of the holders of her Order of Merit suggested that the Queen is not, after all, much of a feminist.
Sage is one of the busiest humans I know – if she's not teaching free workshops on how to create urban gardens, she's organising a feminist protest or rehearsing with her latest bandmates.
