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The relevant warnings go back to the Middle Ages – lose control of your women and your society will crumble. Isn't Britain the best example of this today with its 'Teenage' Single Mother Culture? Even the Democrats in America years ago took steps to cut benefits to single mothers resulting in the number of single mothers going down significantly afterwards.

Having been in the legal profession for three decades, I can say that I have been appalled by the behaviour of a lot of women regardless of their status within the law firm concerned. Far from being abused and discriminated against, they were frequently bullies themselves and often joined in with other people's bullying too. Many of them also had a lazy, uncaring attitude towards their work and expected other fee earners to stop their own work and come running and help them and they were rarely punished except where their conduct resulted in adverse financial consequences for the firm.

If we take the classic example - a man and a woman with very similar credentials are interviewed for the same job. If the man gets the job, the woman will automatically scream 'Sexism.' But if the woman gets the job, will the man assume that the woman's appearance has contributed (substantially) to her getting the job on the basis that most middle-aged or older men would prefer to look at woman all day? A vicious circle indeed if this is the case!

And what about the Reggie Yates 'Extreme Britain' series a few years ago? There was an anti-feminist seminar in London. Hundreds of men attended. But even more significantly, none of those men would be interviewed nor did they not want to be identified on camera either for fear of reprisals from women at work! Doesn't that just make a mockery of feminism as much as those recent topless Brexit protests?

Of course, any discrimination, whether in the workplace or generally/socially needs to be addressed and stopped where possible. However, it is certainly not the case that only women are ever the victims of discrimination/sexism in the workplace as well as in the legal profession and until this fact is acknowledged then there is unlikely to be any (significant) progress in the foreseeable future!