FIVE THINGS ABOUT A CAMPUS CUPCAKE CLASH

1 FEMINIST WEEK CONTROVERSY

When a student at the University of Queensland in Australia was planning a bake sale as part of the school’s “Feminist Week,” she determined that prices would depend on the groups with which buyers identified. White men, for example, would pay full price of $1. A woman, by comparison, would pay 83 cents.

2 POKING FUN AT GENDER PAY GAP

The point was to demonstrate, in a tongue-in-cheek way, the numbers behind the gender pay gap in Australia — where, on average, women working full-time earn 83 per cent of what men earn also working full-time.

3 ORGANIZERS TARGETED

As news of the event began to spread on Facebook, Price and her co-organizers became the victims of online harassment. With swift ferocity, attendees and event planners were threatened by anonymous commentators who felt that the bake sale discriminated against men and manufactured inequality.

4 VERBAL ATTACKS, VIOLENT MESSAGES

Many questioned whether there is a gender pay gap at all. Others called the bake sale organizers “hypocrites.” And some, in an effort to prove that sexism no longer exists, besieged the student union and women’s collective Facebook pages with sexist, violent messages, including: “I’d punch a chick if she winked at me at the bake sale.”

5 BUT CUPCAKES WERE BOUGHT AND EATEN

Price told The Post that most of the negative responses came from outside the university. The actual bake sale on Tuesday was a success: the group sold more than 200 baked goods in just over an hour, with proceeds going to a non-profit that provides feminine hygiene products to homeless and at-risk women.