Ceuta in Spain is but one recent example. Isis brides and their families is another.

The Noticer News reports: “Spanish gender violence campaigner allegedly murdered by Moroccan boyfriend.”

MURDER

One murder doesn’t make a (northern) summer. But. the Scottish comedian Leo Kearse does a deeper dive on this: “White liberal women have the survival instincts of a goldfish when it comes to ‘refugees’.”

There’s a woman with a broad brimmed hat who walks the streets of our town. She wheels a shopping bag around with her, from which she feeds the birds.

All good. But lately, standing on the curbs and corners, she has taken to holding up a small sign to drivers which reads “please don’t kill me”.

A benign interpretation might suggest that she’s simply pleading with suburban street drivers to slow down. Or it might be something else.

White liberal women are getting attacked and murdered by those that they seek to defend, encourage and admit to our shores and succour. In numbers too big not to notice. It is arresting stuff.

UK podcast Richard the Fourth takes it wider still. He unpacks the emergence of the modern liberal woman.

He provides the backstory in a podcast titled “The political problem of the Western woman.

Yes, they mostly vote left, they are woke adjacent, want open borders and the rest – but they are increasingly being joined by “liberal on the Right” women.

These are the warriors against “vile misogyny”. Except when it comes to invading Muslims – the most misogynistic people on God’s earth – they bring ’em in!

There are trends here, he says, to the way the West is going. These are telling and sobering commentaries. There is deep stuff.

It isn’t by accident that the woke takeover of the public square in our lifetimes has coincided with the feminisation of public life.

Women now make up the majority of university students and Albo’s ministry. And everything in between.

Search CEO of any public institution and you are more than likely to find a woman in charge: armies, Commonwealth Treasury, Reserve Bank, universities, police forces, corporates and boards.

How all this occurred, on our watch, is a bit of a mystery.

We know how women colonised public life, and why. They were sold a bill of goods. Anyone want to buy a bridge?

We know how and why women went woke. But putting it all together takes more work.

It suggests that women en masse in public life are stupid. Since most of them merely become wage slaves, third division clerks in the public service who never see their children – and force up the cost of their own housing.

MEAN GIRLS

But I don’t accept this. Too easy, and not politically correct. Mean girls theory? Where theoretical empathy meets one-on-one bitchiness? One might be arrested for thinking it, let alone saying it.

The bottom line is, in the case of the NGO mass immigration warriors at least, that their actions do not lead to the outcomes they naively sought.

Alas, those women who take to the public domain with vigour and intent, whether in politics, corporates or in the NGO sector tend not mostly to be like Margaret Thatcher, Golda Meir or Jeane Kirkpatrick.

Or that other female outlier, the red head from Woolloongabba. Or my friend Bettina Arndt.

No, it has all gone the other way. It isn’t accidental that we have “karens” rather than “kennies” in our vernacular.

When was the last woman in public life that defended freedom, sought to reduce bureaucracy, resisted the nanny State, pushed back against corporatist tyranny or stood up for males?