Millie Tant

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Millie Tant is a character in the British comic, Viz. A caricature of the radical feminist mentality, Millie is portrayed as not being particularly interested in empowering other "Wimmin", but only in expressing her infinite hatred of men, whom she often refers to as either "potential rapists" or just "rapists".

Millie is a lesbian (except for when the punchline requires her to secretly be heterosexual), and insists on referring to other women as "fellow lesbians", regardless of their actual orientation.

She often complains that various phenomena are actually metaphors for the suppression of women: for instance, she once declared that fireworks are actually 'big explosive penises' that 'skewer and rape the virgin female sky'. During such rants, she raises her fist in the air and literally foams at the mouth. The epitome of political correctness, she once refused to make a snowman, instead offering to make a snow-black lesbian rape victim in a wheelchair. In another adventure she plays a card game with an old woman, but ends the game by calling her a homophobe - just because she said she had a "straight flush". In a recent adventure, after same-sex marriages became legal in the UK, Millie wanted to get married. She went out of her way to organise a 100% lesbian, women-only marriage for herself, only to find out in the end she had forgotten to find a bride for herself. Millie also had a baby using donated sperm to artificially inseminate herself with a veggie burger baster (as a vegan, she refused to use a turkey baster) but despite having planned an all natural home birth she ended up in hospital, using pethidine and begging the nurse to call the father to come and hold her hand.

At the end of each comic strip, Millie Tant invariably forgets her feminist stance and is shown to be a hypocrite.