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The appeal of mythical misogyny to the political class is clear. It allows politicians to continuously blame the public for their supposedly misogynistic attitudes, rather than face up to the failings of the state, from the police to the judiciary. Politicians can ignore the actual victims of sexual violence, from the so-called grooming-gangs victims to those assaulted by asylum seekers, while standing in pseudo solidarity with an abstract mass of woman-kind.

Material misogyny does not allow for such slipperiness. Take the grooming-gangs scandal. Thousands of girls, some of whom were pre-pubsecent children, were systematically raped by organised gangs over decades, and the authorities, care workers and local councils were complicit in covering it up because they feared a race riot. There can be no question that heads must roll.

Or when women and children report being sexually assaulted in pubs, clubs, beaches, trains, graveyards, rooftops and parks by men who have no legal right to be in the country, it is clear that the time to ‘do better’ has long since passed.