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Melting, melting, melting ...Maybe all of this could be endured if modern straight man didn't also sob at sad movies, remember Mother's Day and hug and tell his mates meaningfully, "I love you". Now they're aping the subculture's inventive diversity of lifestyles. The nuclear family has detonated, the lifetime commitment of wedlock isn't working and suddenly "normal" male-female relationships can be about serial monogamy or having a person-planet to circle around but with lots of little agreed satellite touchdowns (you want irony? This is happening in Squaresville while Boys Town has moved ever closer to marriage, courtesy of the A1 trunk road that went crashing through the area - the A stands for Aids).Thus heterosexual sexual-social exchange is currently being conducted in what used to be thought of as wholly gay or scandalously bohemian terms (same difference) And not just the sweaty stuff. The basher's included.I'm melting, I'm melting, and I never did get to try on those ruby mules They've stolen my look They've lifted my language. The nadir: there was East End lad Danny Baker in a not unfetching red jacket presenting TV Heroes, no more or less than straight camp, like those bloody endless BBC2 and Channel 4 theme evenings.This is why the moment in Paul Rudnik's play, Jeffrey, where the gay basher enumerates his weapons and then asks the hero what his weapon is and Jeffrey answers "irony", implodes Gay irony is now everyone's cold dish of the day.

Me, I get to go home and cosy up with my video copy of The Young and the Hung: the safest sex of all. The problem is that they are just as likely to boom out as in.Most of them missed the lines by yards in the first set, which Singer ought to have won, but the adoptive Frenchwoman managed to find her range in time to advance to the third round, 7-5, 6-0.The 14-year-old Martina Hingis will play Lindsay Davenport, the seventh seed, after defeating Mariaan de Swardt 6-1, 6-7, 6-2.Results, Sporting Digest, page 39. There's too much pressure."What Bernard Gallacher, the European team captain who has two selections to make up his 12, made of it is anyone's guess, but people who know Walton will read the message as: Philip would like to make the team, but he would prefer to arrive there quietly.Yesterday Walton, 18th in the Ryder Cup standings and winner of the Catalan Open in April, suggested he has hit a seam of form that might play him into automatic selection.Starting early, he attacked the course with the zest of a man newly restored to health after a serious illness - which was a fairly accurate description as he was diagnosed as having a fever one step away from pneumonia on Monday, and played only thanks to antibiotics.A bloodshot left eye betrayed his illness, but using a broom-handled putter, he swept up six birdies before chipping in out of the rough from 30 feet on the last. It was like calling to like, usually through visual and verbal codes, signs and clues that made the Free-masons covert identifications seem pathetically obvious. Thus, proportionately, twice as many women are suspended yet only 6 per cent are found guilty compared with 20 per cent for men.

As for reinstatement, when this happens, men on the whole return to work in their original posts, but women are subjected to such intense harassment that they may have a breakdown or be forced to resign. The one outstanding exception was Dr Wendy Savage and even though she too was subjected to intense harassment, she stuck it out."Sue Maddock, an "equality consultant" who offered her services as an expert witness in Dr Daly's case, says that women suffer from "gender expectations". "They are expected to be medically competent yet at the same time docile and deferential towards the male consultants and the hospital authorities."Ms Maddock believes that "assertive" women doctors are disliked because they pay more attention to patients' interests than to management guidelines. "Helena put pressure on the hospital to respond faster and more sympathetically to patients," she says. "The trust's management was not used to this, they didn't like it, even though she was trying to fulfil the requirements of the Patients' Charter."The hospital managers had a responsibility to look at the causes of conflict, rather than just making a scapegoat of Dr Daly.