interesting to learn i'm not unique in thinking that sexual politics are regressing (and not just in the boys club cabinet). In many, many class discussions, I hear my female students tell me that women are completely liberated, that women can do anything men can do, that feminism has 'gone to far' and nowadays it's men who are the disadvantaged sex. These are the 'truths' they hear and read ubiquitously.

They tell me these things whilst looking at me with perfect maquillage, of a kind that the middle class/well educated section of my generation only wore for 'going out'. They believe these things whilst shuddering at the horror of even the tinest flicker of female body hair (takes them a while to get the joke about Alison's 'beard' in the Miller's Tale!). They believe they are the dominant sex whilst happily assigning their female acquaintances into 'bitch' 'slag' 'butch' 'minger' etc categories. And laughing supportively when the boys do the same.

Not all of them, thankfully. But still - depressing.