Why sack ageing sexists? Send them to rehab instead | Gaby Hinsliff

Tim Hunt isn't too old to learn that his views of women are out of step with the modern world

"You're a sexist!" "No, you're a sexist!" The argument was loud enough to carry up a flight of stairs, and reluctantly I went to see what was going on. Emotions were running too high to ascertain exactly what had started it - something to do with football, possibly - but one thing was clear: playground insults have changed since my day. The gaggle of eight-year-old boys in our kitchen had absolutely no idea what a sexist actually is, but they'd certainly grasped that nobody wants to be called one.

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