I want to feel sympathy for Ms. Henley but this is not a phenomenon that sprung Athena-like in the past 18 months.

This has been brewing at least as long as the mid 90s when I was chastised for using the term, “ladies,” and holding the elevator or other door for people who menstruate. I was borish and crude for such patriarchal vulgarities.

It only got worse from there.

I say I want to feel sympathy because I do. But part of me thinks that Ms. Henley is reaping what she and those like her have sewn for the last 30 years.

This is the world you demanded. Now you complain that you got what you asked for.

Were you really that obscenely blind?

Do us all a favor and work hard to fix what so many of us struggled against for decades… not 18 stupid months.