17 November

It’s quite remarkable Connery’s reputation survived these views. Giving a woman a good slap when she needs it, for example. If you look a bit beneath that though you get a glimpse of a time when male and female were seen as 2 quite different universes. And I wonder if we’ve lost something in forgetting that, in our gender-fluid world. Have we tried to address particular historical obnoxious manifestations of the clash of those 2 universes - slapping, for example - by diluting gender entirely, rather than understanding it?