I’m always impressed by Greer’s words and am usually in agreement. In the Guardian recently she echoes a feeling I have had often enough about women and their attitude to relationships. She says: “In our society, women insist upon a male of their own.” When I said that having a man is more important than who the man is, it was the same essence, said out of frustration and disappointment, a surely-it-could-be-better-than-this kinda thing. Maybe it can’t.

It’s always been the central issue with me: enforced monogamy. I’m not very amenable to exclusivity and that’s important to women generally. I imagine the only time exclusivity is not an issue for a woman is if she’s fucked up or she just doesn’t care. Would Germaine be any different I wonder?