Well, someone is wrong on the radio, anyway.

Today, I have a migraine. I have been lying in bed with the pillow over my eyes and going owwwwwwwwwww. Radio Four has been playing softly in the background, and yes, you guessed it, someone said something on Woman's Hour that made me have to switch on the laptop and fire off an email...

Your recent item on teenage boys was the latest in a long line of pieces which promote the counter-productive trope that women should ONLY have female role models and men should only have male ones. What is wrong with me, as a woman, admiring and wishing to emulate somebody male, or with a man admiring and wishing to emulate a woman? Sexism will never be eradicated until little boys can say they want to grow up to be just like Ellen MacArthur and little girls can say they want to grow up to be Valentino Rossi without anyone tutting and saying it's inappropriate.

When I was a little girl, I wanted to grow up to be Horace Rumpole. I don't think that there's anything wrong with that. I don't know who my little girl's heroes are going to be (although, given her penchant for astronomy, I suspect Patrick Moore might be on the list, which I have no doubt will please him no end) but I find the idea that she should have the list of permissible heroes artificially restricted by gender extremely offensive and enraging.