David Robbins writes ……Societies in general — and men in particular — have been trying for centuries to work out what exactly it is that women want. I thought I had it cracked back in the mid-1980s: I reckoned they wanted men who were tough, hunter-gatherer types but who could also cook, clean and do the laundry.
I spent a lot of my time in the Belfield Bar at UCD nodding sympathetically as attractive southside heiresses talked feminist theory and, just when I was about to make my move, they went off with a guy they had dismissed as a “classic male chauvinist pig”.