It fails to recognise that we laugh along because we don’t have a choice we laugh along because we’ve been socially conditioned our entire lives to be “nice” and “quiet” and “sweet” (compared to “brave” and “bold”, as we teach to little boys). It’s to do with not being a sleaze on the Tube. And the irony is, this has absolutely nothing to do with being “woke”, anyway. Well, women are “woke” because we are fed up: we’re mad as hell and we’re not going to take it any more. If I really squint, I can appreciate that to certain men, women being “woke” is frustrating, because we’re getting a bit lairy, now, aren’t we? It’s the straw man argument of feminism gone “too far”. I can understand, to some extent, the crusade of certain sections of the right-wing press to combat what they see as a crackdown on civil liberties – can almost hear, already, the defence of, “you can’t even look at a woman, anymore!” just as we heard the wilful obfuscation of “you can’t even ask a woman out, now” in the wake of the #MeToo movement.
Have men gone completely mad? First, we had the revelation that some 56 MPs are under investigation for sexual harassment.