Just read her response to the Generation Woke piece (and why boomers should just agree with them; it was smug crap) in last weekend's Times, and offering a fairly long extract here because it's amazing and some of you might also need a 'triple espresso of rage' pick-up after this shitty week:
Men do love conceding things on our behalf. I am used to that. However, this I find particularly egregious, and here’s why: older men, you, more than anyone, saw, participated in and benefited from sexism at every stage of older women’s lives, and now you want tell us to be kind?
It is terribly convenient that older women can be ignored when older men decide that “those groups who today ask us to feel their pain are precisely those whose pain, until recently, was ignored and their voices unheard”. Kind of hilarious that the men of our generation, who groped us at school, harassed us in college, kicked the career ladder from under us, grew fat on our domestic and reproductive labour, watched as our salaries and pensions stagnated while theirs grew, didn’t lift a finger to stop the abuse women such as Rowling experienced behind closed doors – that these men can now decide that, privilege-wise, we’re all the same, one big, fat Generation Had-Its-Time who has already been heard and needs to defer to the young.
It’s convenient not least because, in seeing us this way, through a male-default generational lens, these men can consider themselves progressive without ever having to concede what they’ve taken from us, what they owe us, what they have done and are still doing now.
Genuinely after years of MN radicalisation I still hadn't quite thought of it in these terms. A real shaft of light.