Inappropriate behaviour

Readers cannot have missed the frequent media outpourings of angst in relation to inappropriate behaviour towards women, most of which appears to be entirely justified, and readers in the UK will also not have missed the 100th anniversary of (some) women being given the right to vote. The enlightenment on equal pay, indeed equality in all walks of life, for both sexes, which has come from public discourse is only just beginning, and all of this has made the masculinists (yes, there is such a word, defined as1 denoting attitudes held to be typical of men) realize how terrible they have been. However, when I started to digest all of this news on the long history of unfair treatment and repression of women, something in the back of my mind made me feel that I had heard all of this before! Let me outline what I mean.