Greg, I have read plenty of idiocy in my time which has mostly been on Twitter and now X. However your response to Sadie is now at the very top.

A 30-year conversation? Over women carrying guns to when required shoot a sexual assailant and this is a deterrent to rape?

Women already carry guns in America and this has not deterred any sexual assault or rape. Not one.

And if a woman did shoot a man while being raped she would have to prove it. In England we have an ongoing travesty of low conviction rates for rape as the procedure is so traumatic and adversarial.

A woman would now have to prove she was in danger of being raped or was actually raped.

And to answer your misogynistic and deeply offensive comment to Sadie: "Why do women put up with it?" shows how you as a man know so little about the power and control of patriarchal authority in putting the blame for sexual assault/rape on the female victim.

It is the "acculturation and conditioning" of men which is the reason for rape and sexual assaults of all kinds from flashing to rape.

Your misogyny is natural in a patriarchal society and it isn't your fault. But to remain so as a mature man is. You spoke with your brother over 30 years but did you talk to your Mother?

Marc