I write to make two points, each of which vies with the other in magnitude of the displeasure they address. The second did not come to me right away, but only as I wrote about the first. Its beacon is as bright, if not brighter, as it relates not to the opinion of one, but the thoughts expressed about that opinion by 12.

First, this article was not written in 2011. The author wrote, "In 2011, an appeal(s) (sic) court in Aix-en-Provence sentenced a husband to pay €10,000 to his wife because their sexual relations were “insufficient.” While the easy answer to my concern might be (and it is probably the case) that the author did not know about this earlier court decision until reading the recent article about the more recent one, the absence of any further comment about it, nary a single word, speaks volumes. The pretense that the writer seeks equality of rights between men and women is revealed for what it is.

Second, in the 12 comments that precede this one, on a site where women contributors outnumber men ( I am apparently not permitted to say "female and male") by some multiple of probably 3 or 4, , not one who commented picked up on this disparity, or at least did not deem it worthy of comment.

I get that women will tend to comment about things that bother them, and men will do the same, and often each fail to recognize that the same kind of "sins" or negative attributes fall on both sides of the gender line. And, of the women who write here, a lot of them have strident opinions that do not fall within the fat part of the bell curve of all women. But, geez, must a personal agenda almost always be that obvious? And kindly spare me that, "we have been silenced so long that now we must (over)compensate" stuff.