A Spectator's Notebook
ONE OF THE MOST disgusting aspects of the Mrs. Ellis contro- versy has been the claptrap about sex equality. 'It is time,' writes Candidus, 'that feminists learned that sex equality works both ways. . . . It can't now be argued that there should be one law for the male and another for the female.' I do not know exactly what, if anything, sex equality means. But I should not have thought that whatever it means, it had much to do with whether or not Mrs. Ellis should have been hanged. Just as women are not very suitable for fighting or coal-mining, so in my view they should not be hanged. Any- way, the sex-equality fanatics are not even consistent. Neither Candidus nor the most crazy feminist has yet, so far as I know. advocated the appointment of a female executioner.
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