BRENDAN O’NEILL: A compliment isn’t misogynistic. Why can’t feminists understand this? “What must the veiled, subjugated women of genuinely patriarchal societies in the East and South think when they see a free, well-connected woman in the West scream ‘misogyny!’ over a compliment? They must feel pretty lonely, knowing they’re unlikely ever to win solidarity from such sorry, self-obsessed excuses for feminists.”

If you understand that feminism is, in part, a leveling mechanism used by less-attractive women against more-attractive women, it will make sense.