Not me too

I refuse to do the me too thing.

Why would I? Why would any woman? Apart from the fact that what happens to me is my business, I don't need to prove what the problem is. We know what the problem is. It's not everyday sexism, not normal male privilege, not a Hollywood mogul behaving the way Hollywood moguls are expected to. And I for one don't need bleeding heart liberal guys telling me how they sympathise.

We've known this kind of shit has been going on for decades - centuries, in fact. It's not about women at all. It's about anyone who isn't an old white guy being held back so that a small group of old white guys can continue to run the world. It's about discrimination. Against women, black people, gays, hispanics, jews, arabs - anyone who doesn't fit the profile the men in charge want us to see as the norm. It's not an isolated problem. It's rife in politics, business, the media, and in public life in general.

What do we do about it?

It has taken more than a century to get to this stage, so it's going to take a while to sort out. But we can make a start.

Maybe in the UK we can start by chucking out the posh white boys who have such political power. We could ask them to justify their position - on merit.

We could ask their supporters - journalists mainly - to show why these people are in positions of power. Then we could clear out the organs of power like judges or 'senior' civil servants or the House of Lords which represent no one, but pay people huge amounts of money to spend their later years doing very little and getting medals and whopping pensions at the end.

We could set targets: no improvement in public life - no pay - and definitely no bonuses. That incentive would work for most of us. Why not the ruling elite?