Caitlin Moran, the irreverent voice of modern feminism, is proudly telling me that she is ‘team tits ’til I die’, but for her latest book, What About Men?, it’s not women’s issues that have caught her attention. When I ask what inspired this shift in direction, in true Moran form, she offers me two explanations: ‘The jokey answer is that I’d written everything on women,’ she laughs. ‘My menopause is a bit late, and I thought I would have had that to write about by now, but I’m still thoroughly perimenopausal and the HRT is working! But the serious answer is, I kept, in a really annoying way, getting asked about men. And, in the past, I didn’t care; compared to women, they seemed to be fine.’
It was only when Moran’s daughters became teens that she started hearing about their male classmates, ‘who had a very different attitude to women than even their fathers would have done,’ Moran explains. ‘They thought feminism had gone too far; that it was easier to be a female than male, and they were talking about feminism in very negative terms.’
Moran was alarmed. ‘Suddenly, boys seemed to think they were the victims or the disadvantaged. From where I stood on ten
