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I tend to think this negging phenomenon is complete bullshit. Most guys I know aren’t exactly sexual Hannibal Lecters, capable of deconstructing and rebuilding a woman’s psyche for sex. It’s hard enough for us to keep the little things straight: “Smile, don’t stare at her tits, don’t stare at her tits, say she’s pretty, smile, don’t stare at her tits, you stared at her tits, stop staring at her tits, smile …

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They also claim “there were no LGBT characters in any of the Star Wars movies”. I don’t know which wacky re-cut version of Star Wars they’ve been watching, but I saw the original when I was about six years old and even then I was struck by how outrageously camp C3PO is. He was a gilded John Inman in space. And what about Luke Skywalker? Apart from briefly kissing his own sister, he shows no interest in women whatsoever. The first film is a tender gay parable in which Luke falls in love with Alec Guinness and gradually “comes out” as a Jedi. The final scene oozes symbolism: having penetrated the Death Star’s trench in his phallic spacecraft, he closes his eyes, submits to his true inner instinct and triumphantly blasts his X-Wing’s seed into an anus-like aperture, causing an orgasmic eruption that changes his universe for ever. It’s hard to see how they could make Star Wars any gayer, unless they gave the Millennium Falcon a handlebar moustache.