An assessment of modern-day feminists and why they are incapable of understatement.

A few years ago the Australian writer Anne Manne argued that many women inhale the benefits of feminism as naturally as the air they breathe.

And women – in the western world at least – have made huge progress in so many aspects of life.

But some commentators warn that today’s modern feminism is a corruption of what feminism should be; that feminism is no longer about freedom, it’s just a lobby group for pet grievances. That it's not so much about emancipation; it’s now reactionary.