WOMEN ARE OFFSIDE.

That yesterday's news bothered to report the somewhat moronic conversation between a couple of football commentators says more about the world we live in than anything that the two goons concerned said themselves.

That the monstrous regiment of women should have risen up in such high dudgeon over something so inconsequential, and that the media and others then latched onto the story as some sort of news is a frightful indictment of modern society. I neither know nor care whether the female official in question was right, wrong, or had bandy legs; it is a matter not only of supreme indifference to me, but also of no importance whatsoever in the real world.

We appear to be trapped in a mindset in which any reference to women being less able than men in any sphere of life is automatically branded as 'sexism', while the opposite is taken as being an obvious statement of truth. Women such as the egregious Harriet Harman and Jenny Murray tell us daily how wonderful women are and how badly they're treated by those awful misogynistic men.

When will men actually pull themselves together and fight back ? It is abundantly clear that men and women are different, both pysically and mentally. This is not to say that either gender is better than the other, but it is a fact that they have different interests and abilities. Men are generally bigger, stronger, faster, more competitive and more aggressive; this suits them to a range of activities and careers which utilise these attributes. Women tend to be more caring and thoughtful, more gregarious and, dare I say it, more interested in 'home-making'. To deny these truths is equivalent to joining the 'Flat Earth Society'.

It is a fact of nature that many men want to run companies, become engineers and play rough, tough games. It is an equal fact that many women don't want to do these things, but they do want to enter the 'caring professions', or rhe media, and are happier being led than taking the lead. THERE IS NOTHING WRONG WITH ANY OF THIS. That more aggressive females, such as Ms Harman, have greater personal ambitions does not imply that all women are similarly motivated, any more than finding a man who has little or no personal ambition implies that all men must be the same.

The bottom line is that men and women are not equal. Miss Whatshername, the football official, may well have known the 'offside rule', but perhaps she was out of her depth in trying to transfer her knowledge and skills to a game played at a faster pace and more aggressively than would have been the case had it been a ladies match; or perhaps she was not. Who cares ? The remarks of the commentators may have been unfair and even offensive, but we aren't talking about anything of any real importance here; again, 'who cares' ?

Let men and women do whatever they want to do, within reason and without the constant badgering of the feminist lunatics. As long as the field of opportunity is level, everyone will find their own place and if that means 99% of Boardroom directors are male while 99% of midwives are female, so be it. It's the natural order of things.