Radical Feminism Is Back With A Vengeance.

It is easy in times like this to feel as though there is a war on women. There is.

And we're responsible.

In 1975, the fourth generation of British women with the right to an education won equal rights in the workplace. A 70-year-old woman today would have been 21 at the time. All it took was one generation of women entering forbidden territory and completing our careers to prove we are a threat.

In 2025, British girls outperform boys at school, women gain more degrees at university, make up 47% of the workforce, and hold 45% of board seats.

Yes, there’s still a long way to go, and the diversity figures are woeful, but after 4,125 years of legally enforced subjugation, that’s a remarkable achievement.

We're not falling behind—we've got them on the run.

Now it's time to ramp it up.

We need to usher in the fourth wave of feminism.

The first wave threw themselves under horses. The second wave burned their bras. The third wave leaned in. The fourth wave is here to finish the job.

And the first thing we need to do is bring all women on side. We bra-burners know the biggest trick the patriarchy ever pulled was convincing women we’re in competition with each other.

Those of us who faced a frosty reception in the workplace at the start of our careers also faced ice-cold glares at the school gates. We were 'the bitches that ruined everything' and were 'neglecting our children for our own selfish ambitions.'

This is one of the reasons we're in the mess we are in today. The white women who were against women entering the workplace still hate us. That’s why Hillary lost to Trump. That’s why Kamala lost to Trump. Midlife White women who cling to the patriarchy like a security blanket don’t want a world where women work two jobs.

And that’s why we won’t be joined by the generation below us in direct action right now. They’re on the front lines, struggling with careers in a world that still doesn’t value women or motherhood.

While they defend their positions, it’s up to us—those with time and experience—to strategise and implement ways toward a more equitable future.

We can do it. We're a tough bunch of battle-ready battle axes. Those of us from the UK grew up in a world where every adult we knew was involved in World War II, drumming Churchill's motto into us:

"The price of peace is eternal vigilance."

We’ve been watching. And waiting. We may be invisible in society, but look at the front lines of almost every protest, and you’ll find midlife women pressed against the barricades.

I call them the Greenham Common Goddesses—women who grew up fighting apartheid, nuclear weapons, and the National Front. They know how to organise and disrupt.

But protests don’t work when there is a coordinated global effort to silence voices of humanity.

That’s why we need the Front Line Goddesses—women who, despite insurmountable obstacles, forced change in industries where women's voices had never been heard. The world needs their strategy, experience, and wisdom. Not just to fight the effects of the patriarchy but to destabilise its very foundations.

And those foundations are story.

Which brings me to one of the most attacked groups of feminists—The Keepers of the Secrets—the academics. Women's Studies has been under fire since the first course was offered at the University of Kent in 1980. It took 92 years of women's education before we could actually study ourselves.

And our history.

Which is where we start.

Including owning and righting our own history. The big mistake of the second-wave feminists was ignoring Black women in the ‘60s and ‘70s. The state of The States (and their 'allies') proves we still haven't learned that lesson.

When white women were 'leaning in' for Kamala, Black women warned us evil forces were at work—that the US would never elect a Black female president. When the result came in, they just shrugged and said, "Told you so."

They have been let down by feminism, so we can't ask a thing of them at the moment. We need to follow their lead. They've left all the instructions, it's up to us to study, read and listen to what they've been saying for years. Isabel Wilkerson's Caste: The origins of our discontents is a fabulous place to start, if you don't have to read, Ava DuVernay's Origin is a fabulous film about Isabel writing the book.

Fourth wave feminists need to catch up quick smart. Black women have been mobilising for decades. Within a week of Target dropping its DEI policies, shareholders and management were in crisis. Black shoppers stopped shopping where they weren't welcome.

Women 50+ may be invisible and ignored but we're also dangerously underestimated.

Our global spending power is $42.75 trillion. Not because we're rich but because we buy for everyone. And we can use that power to really change the world.

This is just one rune in our bag of tricks.

While their talk is of war, it's up to feminists to get serious and get organised to attack the rising forces of evil with love, wisdom, humour and extreme cunning.

Never forgot, we're afraid of them because they'll kill us.

They're afraid we'll laugh at them.