Do we men still tell sexist jokes? Of course we do. That one, for example, about women needing flat-fronted shoes so they can get closer to the sink – or is it the oven? But these days we tell them (very discreetly, when our womenfolk are out of earshot) mainly out of nostalgia for the time when we actually did rule the roost. If that time ever existed, which I’m not altogether sure it did: even in the 14th-century Wife of Bath’s tale – written by a bloke – the moral of the story is that a man can only achieve true happiness when he lets the woman have her every desire. And going even further back, to Ancient Greece, there’s Aristophanes’s Lysistrata, where the women control the men by deploying the ultimate sanction: they go on sex strike.