Yasmin Alibhai-Brown is upset:

At every level, still, even in the West, women are invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in everyday life.

Hmm. Here is a woman making a nice living writing for one of the world’s more prominent newspapers, complaining about her own performance on a significant public panel about broadcasting issues. And she’s … invisible?

She is lashing out wildly in her shame at not mentioning other notable women broadcasters:

We discussed great exchanges and inquisitors. Until the last five minutes, not one female broadcaster had been mentioned, and two smart young women spoke up to ask why not.

They shamed us twice over – a vital conversation had dwelt only on male excellence and we hadn’t realised that. Somehow forgotten were Martha Kearney, Kirsty Wark, Caroline Quinn, Ritula Shah, Anita Anand, Sarah Montague, Jenni Murray, Victoria Derbyshire…

Quite a group of women: all invisible, neglected, kept down, slighted, patronised, objectified, denied and demeaned in everyday life. 

As evidenced only by the fact that Yasmin forgot to mention them! 

You see, women, you only exist and count for something when feministic Indy writers say you do.

And isn’t this a bit … perverse:

Lord Davies of Abersoch is about to report on how the numbers of women in boardrooms can be increased – and what do we get? A new study claiming women don’t break through because of modesty and low ambition.

I have better possible reasons: some don’t want their knickers gazed at from under the glass ceiling, and others just can’t bear the sexist company.

Time to tip-toe quietly away and unload the dishwasher.