Sir, - Tony Lowth is undoubtedly the victim of gender discrimination, which is deplorable in all its manifestations. However, John Waters jumping up and down because women have not leapt into the fray in this case is hard to take. If the voice calling for equality has been predominately female, it is because gender discrimination is largely a female experience but also because - with heroic exceptions - men have kept a low profile on the issue.
Doesn't John Waters appreciate the irony of his position? He not only glosses over men's silence on the issue of discrimination against women but apparently finds their silence unremarkable, even in a case where the victim is a man. Are we to surmise that Mr Waters regards fighting gender discrimination as "women's work"? - Yours, etc., Frances Kelly,
Oulton Road, Dublin 3.