Following a scathing attack on feminism by Neil Lyndon in the Telegraph (who was triumphant in his response to the results of a survey by a sociologist who found that men do as much as women at home), Geraldine Bedell tells him (also in the Telegraph) in no uncertain terms that feminism is his friend.
He gets so carried away in his celebrations that someone (at last) has found that men are not "lazy, slobbish, barbaric, barely civilisable and incapable of switching on the vacuum cleaner without breaking it" that he anticipates another study that will imminently show that one in four men does not batter the woman he lives with, and that not all men are rapists.
But Mr Lyndon is so defensive about the whole subject that he doesn't seem to see the contradictions in his own arguments.
He points out just how much he wanted to marry a woman who would not be a domestic serf, how much he wanted a more equal partnership than his parents' marriage. Perhaps, just perhaps, he should consider that this greater equality has, in fact, been brought about by the very creed of which he is so dismissive.
As Ms Bedell points out: "Setting up feminism as the enemy is daft. It's feminism that has got us to the place that he is so pleased about. Feminism is your friend, Mr Lyndon. You should be nicer to her".
