Here’s the thing: I was wrong.
When Caroline Criado-Perez first started making noise about the fact that the Bank of England had dropped the only woman chosen to be on a banknote – Elizabeth Fry – and replaced her with Winston Churchill, I didn’t think it was a big deal. Aren’t there bigger things to worry about than who gets pictured on our money? What about rape, domestic violence, global hunger, income inequality, the fact I can’t find a shoe that is comfortable and stylish? Why are bloody feminists always obsessing over the small stuff instead of solving the real problems?
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