SIR – There has been an awful lot of media mileage and feminine outrage following the Sky TV Andy Gray gaffe.

I feel two questions arise from this.

The first asks a number of questions – if sexism is wrong, why is there a government minister for women, but none for men?

Why does the BBC air an hour each day of women’s views and perspectives, but no equivalent for men?

Why do the overwhelming majority of contested child custody cases conclude in the mother’s favour?

Why do adverts show a ‘father and child’ only when it is about money, but not when it is about caring for or feeding the child?

The second question is simpler. Who has apparently decided that none of us can be offended any more, and what implications are there for freedom of speech, comedy, spontaneity?

The truth is that men and women are not the same. We often think differently and most men are physically stronger than most women.

It is not unusual to hear women utter “typical man”, any more than it is not unusual to hear men say “typical woman”.

We are not clones, but if this is about fairness, then let’s stop behaving and reacting as though women are the perpetual victims, and never the perpetrators of sexism.

WILL RICHARDS
Malvern