I’m not saying we’ve achieved nothing. We’ve got a sort of veneer of decency when it comes to equal rights for women. We’re like a couple who were fighting before their party. We’re conspicuously civil, but that doesn’t mean everything is peachy. Yes, there’s legislation about equal opportunity, and equal pay. But the fight hasn’t gone away. It’s just moved. Equality is being achieved in some places – equality of a sort, at least – but, like any good opponent, the patriarchy has regrouped. Misogyny is mutating. You don’t rule the world for millennia without learning a few survival tricks.

The fight has gone to greater places, and smaller ones.

At Greenham Common women are saving the world because none of you penis-wielding lot seem much interested. Either that or you’re too invested, in all senses, in those giant phallic symbols your American buddies want to parade all over the countryside. We’re fighting for women to be recognised as a force in their own right, but we’re doing it WHILE WE’RE DOING SOMETHING ELSE – getting rid of nuclear weapons. Women doing more than one thing at a time, John – does that sound familiar to you? Let me let you into a secret. You don’t actually live in a self-cleaning house.

Women have taken the fight deep into their own lives, too. Not all women. But enough of us. There’s only so much a sister can do to shift that thinking, no matter how hard she tries. And the ones who haven’t – well, that’s patriarchal indoctrination in action for you, John. That and Some Mothers Do ‘Ave ‘Em trying to make everyone believe that incompetent men-children are a hilarious, harmless good thing. Let’s hope this decade does better on the light entertainment front.

Women are seeking equality in their relationships and their homes, expecting and assuming that there will be help from the men they choose to share their lives with. And by help, I mean hands-on, dinner-cooking, bed-making, nappy-changing help. Not the I-earn-the-money-you-do-the-work arrangement that’s been masquerading as an equation for all these years.