MILO YIANNOPOULOS ON MAN-SHAMING BARRISTER CHARLOTTE PROUDMAN: Dear Charlotte Proudman: It’s Not Your Gender, It’s You.

On a related note, I suspect that if the male lawyer looked like George Clooney, Ms. Proudman wouldn’t be complaining. But you’re not supposed to say that, are you.

I don’t know how many compliments Ms. Proudman receives on a daily basis. But it takes an extraordinary level of entitlement to complain that you’re receiving too many of them, especially when they are as mild and non-creepy as the one Proudman received.

I’m a lot better looking than Ms. Proudman, so I get a lot more nice comments, but if I imagine receiving let’s say 0.5-1 per cent of the compliments I get, I can imagine how awful her life must be. Honestly, her stunt was almost a humblebrag, lighting up this poor solicitor in order to show the world she had received a grand total of one solitary half-compliment. Cringe.

The fact that she also felt the need to violate the male lawyer’s privacy and publicly embarrass him on social media demonstrates an incredible detachment from reality. Proudman has now taken to the pages of the Independent, where she complains that her career is now under threat because of a “misogynistic” backlash. And it’s true, members of large law firms have suggested that they will no longer work with her.

Here’s an ugly truth for Ms. Proudman: this “backlash” has nothing, I’m sorry to say, to do with your gender, and everything to do with your personality.

Men are perfectly comfortable working with women. Our era is more tolerant than any that has come before it, and in my experience men working in male-dominated environments are desperate for more women to join their teams. But that doesn’t mean people are comfortable working with loose-cannon harridans who post private correspondence on the internet. I mean, you’re a lawyer, for Heaven’s sake! Who in their right mind would hire you now?

No one. No one at all.