Why does every dispute in British politics eventually degenerate into "you hurt a woman's feelings"? When Robert Kenyon ran for Reform in Makerfield, the entire debate centred around Carol Vorderman pretending to be upset at a funny joke he'd made online years ago. Similarly, there was a concerted effort to discredit and remove Carl Benjamin from mainstream political spheres over an offhand joke he made about Jess Phillips. Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a minister and suspended from Labour (and the scandal widened to other Labour figures) over jokes made in a private WhatsApp group about Angela Rayner, who said she was "absolutely disgusted". Why is it that if a woman says she's upset, it's treated like the Holocaust, Hiroshima, and a cat being put in a bin all at once?