The actress says men belittle women with their affectionate displays. We need a practical solutionA friend reminded me the other day that in our youth,there used to be a counter every evening on the news that recorded how many jobs had been gained or lost that day. “Seven car factories somewhere up north closed with the loss of 40000 jobs,” Richard Baker or someone very like him, or would say. “Mrs Smethick is taking on a paperboy for Saturdays in Bridlington.”I feel we are in need of a similar system to bring clarity to the greatest confusion of our own age: male-female interaction. The need for some kind of nationally calibrated scale on which to weigh the day’s gleanings of sexist behaviour is now overdue.
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Source: theguardian.com