January
The beginning of the year saw Rita Ora lambasted for showing too much cleavage on The One Show (as reported by the same publications that routinely publish entire articles about cleavage). Nigel Farage made a boob of himself by demanding that breastfeeding mums should sit in the corner, and the Sun succumbed to the No More Page 3 campaign with all the grace of a toddler throwing a screaming tantrum....

March
Rachel Reeves threw the world into confusion and disarray when she said she would keep her ministerial job if Labour were elected, despite being pregnant. MPs fretted that she wouldn’t be able to give the job her “full attention” and columnists accused the “stupid woman” of treating motherhood like “a hobby” (unlike all those multitasking professional fathers)....

May
EA Sports announced it would be adding women’s teams to its new Fifa video game and the male gamosphere went into a blind panic. Comments ranged from: “Don’t break my balls with this bullshit,” to the totally proportionate: “Women have ruined the earth and now they are ruining Fifa.”...

August
“Not doing enough housework is ‘making women fat’,” proclaimed the Daily Mail, in an ingenious headline that managed to both put women down and put them in their place at the very same time.