In just the last few years the true story of women has accelerated with breathtaking pace, buoyed by a new and gleeful audacity. After decades of slow advancement, with occasional opportunistic leaps, the #MeToo movement has emboldened female writers, artists and activists to call out and push back against every example of the male-imposed humiliation, suppression, exploitation, objectification, betrayal, deceit and guilt (and that’s just a handful of the formidable nouns I could have used) which has characterised women’s lives over the globe for millennia.
The result is a still-snowballing, taboo-busting, unapologetic explosion of rage, relief, and sorrow. And there’s no question there are times when humour has been jettisoned and tensions have arisen between the genders. Unexpected allies have also been created however, and there is a growing army…
