Pleased as I am that a firm line is being taken against this pair and their gender-obsessed lack of respect and professionalism, I can’t help feeling for them, just a little. Gray hails from the same part of the world as I do, and is seven years older than me. When he and I were children, it was accepted as an everyday fact of life that women were less intelligent than men, and that a decent woman slept with only one man in her life – her husband. At four, I remember wishing fervently that it would turn out that little girls became men and little boys women, since it was so obviously better to be a man. This wasn’t something I picked up from my parents. It was everywhere.