When I left school in the late 60's we were on the cusp of the Women's Liberation movement really finding it's momentum. Times and attitudes were beginning to change - probably the first generation to think, act, dress and behave so radically differently from their parents.
We also lived through a cultural revolution. The Beatles, The Stones, Mary Quant, Vidal Sassoon, Biba et al. Whose Dad didn't think that these scruffy long-haired layabouts should be in the army!? Many a time I withstood the "you're not going out looking like that" admonishment. (Mainly mini skirts, hot pants and Eyelure false eyelashes 
)
And the pill - one of the greatest of all liberators.
But recent events - and the exposure of so many men being guilty of sexual abuse dating back to earlier times and the rise of quite sickening mysogony makes me wonder if we have gone 3 steps forward and two steps back?
An American President excusing his own revolting and demeaning comments as "locker room banter". A rich and powerful financier grooming and traficking young girls, usually from deprived backgrounds and drawing the rich, the powerful and the famous into his web of sickening behaviour.
Social media male "gurus" encouraging men to belittle and abuse women.
I cannot stop thinking about those women who have to stand up in crowded courtrooms and divulge the most intimate and humiliating details of their lives in order for justice to be served. It's very rare that men are subjected to such degrading scrutiny.
Am I alone in thinking this way?
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