Sir, – At a trial this week in the Irish courts a prosecution counsel used the term the “ultimate in toxic masculinity” (News, September 29th).
Such language has no place in courtrooms nor in our political discourse.
No one would think of referring to someone’s skin colour, religion or ethnicity and neither should they refer to a person’s sex.
The only thing toxic is the slow steady increase in the use of the language of American-style identity politics in this country.
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– Yours, etc,
PAUL WILLIAMS,
Kilkee,
Co Clare.