Vi oversvømmes i disse år af misandrisk "litteratur." Vil du sælge en bog, skal du blot have et plot, hvor en sammensværgelse af hvide, gamle mænd undertrykker de stakkels kvinder. Det virkede for Dan Brown, og Stieg Larrson hitter i disse dage med en roman efter samme opskrift. Eller også skal du skrive en bog om mandehaderen og flerdobbelt mordforsøger Valerie Solanas, hvor du gør hende til helt.

Litterært set er det BRAS.

Det vart derfor med blandede følelser, at jeg så feministen Doris Lessing havde fået årets Nobelpris i litteratur. Men hun har faktisk en del fornuftigt at sige om situationen i dag:

Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists

Novelist condemns female culture that revels in humiliating other sex

The novelist Doris Lessing yesterday claimed that men were the new silent victims in the sex war, "continually demeaned and insulted" by women without a whimper of protest.

Lessing, who became a feminist icon with the books The Grass is Singing and The Golden Notebook, said a "lazy and insidious" culture had taken hold within feminism that revelled in flailing men.

Young boys were being weighed down with guilt about the crimes of their sex, she told the Edinburgh book festival, while energy which could be used to get proper child care was being dissipated in the pointless humiliation of men.

"I was in a class of nine- and 10-year-olds, girls and boys, and this young woman was telling these kids that the reason for wars was the innately violent nature of men.

"You could see the little girls, fat with complacency and conceit while the little boys sat there crumpled, apologising for their existence, thinking this was going to be the pattern of their lives."

Lessing said the teacher tried to "catch my eye, thinking I would approve of this rubbish".

She added: "This kind of thing is happening in schools all over the place and no one says a thing.

"It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not.

"It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests.

"Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did."