Sir, – Why is The Irish Times Life page running articles on hang-ups about intimate female body parts and functions such as one usually sees in the cheaper, trashy women’s magazines? Is the hitherto essentially serious broadsheet trying to become populist, by appealing to the younger, emancipated, liberal reader, with its diet of subject matter that is more suited to the privacy of the doctor’s surgery than the public domain?
“Women, the bloody, funny truth” (September 25th) was the coup de grâce in this genre of vulgarity and poor taste, treating as it did of something à la Caitlin Moran, that should remain what it actually is – sacred, life-affirming and private.
In-your-face feminism has had its day and we have had a surfeit of angst over all attendant travails our sex is naturally heir to – vagina rants, boobs, body hair, menstrual blood and so on, ad nauseam, so there is no need for the fast-talking, crusading firebrand Caitlin to change the world.
In the great scheme of things we were created male and female, specifically and judiciously formed for the procreation and continuance of the human race. So vive la différence! And rejoice . . . – Yours, etc,