This story shows the doble standards well. dailymail.co.uk/news/ar…. For in it Will Knowland points out the obvious, about men being those that do all the hard and rough stuff. At the time is point about conscription possibly seemed academic. But is brought into sharp relief by the Ukrainian ban on working age males leaving the country and their conscription into the military or work. While of course their womenfolk and children left in their millions. A friend hosts a mother and daughter who has been staying with them since that huge exodus. Only last month was husband (a senior policeman in a small city) alowed to leave by Ukraine, to visit his wife and child. A stark reminder of the very different sex roles when the danger is immanent. Making entirely accurate Knowland's observations. Yet these are "misogynist" or "sexist". Meanwhile there is huge doubt about the grain shipments from Ukraine. Grain farmed, harvested, processed, transported, loaded on ships which themselves will be "manned"; by men. Again a stark example of Knowland's observation about the food chain.

Probably his most accurate comment is that feminism (in all its many guises and heresies) is only possible in affluence where the appearance of food, safety, warmth, security, shelter etc. is so apparently effortless that one can simply forget who and how it was and is made possible.