I am a feminist because to be one seems perfectly obvious and reasonable to me. I am a feminist because it bothers me that women are more than 50 per cent of the population and more than 60 per cent of university graduates but somehow only 3 per cent of chief executives. I am a feminist because it bothers me that a woman gets killed by her male partner every single week, and somehow that doesn't qualify as a tools-down national crisis even though if a man got killed by a shark every week we'd probably arrange to have the ocean drained. I am a feminist because it bugs me that "working mum" is a phrase I hear every day but I never hear "working dad".

Being a feminist is - technically, I guess - a full-time job, but let me tell you: the flexibility is incredible. I very rarely stop in at International Feminist HQ, for example. I never go to meetings. I've paid diddly squat in membership fees. This is embarrassing, but I couldn't even tell you the name of feminism's current president.

Sometimes I do stuff which I'm frightened Germaine Greer will find out I like doing. But that doesn't mean I can't be a true feminist.

And I manage to fit in a very full life around my feminist responsibilities: raising three lovely children with an actual man, working in a job I adore, and doing stuff that has nothing at all to do with feminism, such as finding new ways to put cheese in things, or being unable to stop laughing when someone mentions the phrase "open kimono" (to be honest, this has only been happening since Tuesday).

Sometimes I do stuff which I'm frightened Germaine Greer will find out I like doing. Like wearing high heels, even though I totally get that they are a gendered attack on women and a pointless encumbrance designed to sap our speed and agility and maliciously get us stuck in gratings (In my mind, I reason that they are no stupider than the necktie). Or loving the clothing and kitchenalia of the 1950s, and not even in an ironic way; bakelite actually really does make my heart beat faster, and I find aprons both practical and beautiful.