I’ve written before about the confusion over whether I could honestly call myself a feminist – and I think the answer’s probably no, because I’m far too prone to those man-quirks, unpopular as that may be. For me, the safest way to enter the debate is to simply talk to someone close to me, such as my partner or a female friend, someone who won’t rip me to shreds for a misplaced word when I ask what they think about a gender issue. It would be more constructive to enter those debates in the public sphere, but that’s a much too frightening a prospect – who knows what the reaction would be?