The answer can be revealed in two words: Emma Barnett.

I saw this lady reviewing the papers with Andrew Marr last Sunday on BBC1 UK. She was – it became clear within seconds – a less than subtle mélange of pc, “We women need to be recognised” clichés, and down-the-line support for everything the Government tells us about Iraq and Ukraine.

At one point, she put up for our consideration a story about how Waterloo Bridge was built largely by women – an interesting historical curio, but hardly relevant to a current affairs programme.

“Wonder Women,” she told Media Bulletin in 2012, “is a new daily online section of the Telegraph filled with sassy, irreverent and intelligent content about politics, business, family, life and sex.” Sassy, eh? Crikey, that’s breaking new ground.

Anyway, if you want to know why the Women’s pages at the Telegraph turned into ill-informed Wimmin’s agitprop about Ched Evans and blokes having to sign in triplicate every time they ask if sex might not be out of the question, she’s yer lady. She gave this story to the Magazine Jezebel shortly after being appointed Wimmin’s Editor at the Telecrap. I have four problems with it:

1.The story was about her lover. I wonder if she gave him any warning?

2. It slagged him off as ‘slovenly’, based on zero evidence beyond Ms Barnett’s opinion.

3. What was she doing with such an allegedly misogynist slob in the first place?

4. Because Emma is a sense of  humour-free zone, she was objecting to a jokey irony within the washing instructions in a pair of his underpants about ‘give it to your woman to wash’. The article (written up by staffer Doug Barry) contains this robotic piece of ‘writing’: ‘a hidden message – or rather an order, intended to encourage women to reassume their once their (sic) ‘proper place’ (in the home) and young men to maintain the expectations of their grandfathers’.

As always with the Sisters, there is no interrogation, only propagandic assumption: all is Party Line, there have been no regrettable side-effects from feminism, we have overturned millions of years of wiring, and all is now well. When a young man, I was active in supporting Women’s Rights. I still for the life of me can’t remember why.

But Doug Barry (who he?) has joined the growing throng of males fallen victim to the Invasion of the Brain Snatcherettes. Here’s another one giving me a hard time on Twitter yesterday….and don’t laugh – it’s not a joke:

Personally, I think it all started going wrong after Care in the Community put them in the attic, and then the internet let them out again. Truly, bizarrely deranged.

At the Weekend Slog: Let’s dump Left & Right, and just say ‘radical’