U2’s Bono has been criticised for telling Rolling Stone magazine that rock music has become “too girly”. In fairness, Bono wasn’t decrying female musicians per se – it was more a comment on how youthful “rage” was his creative fuel. However, he perhaps needs to stop describing what sounds like being driven, or politicised, as “rage” – in this climate, privileged white men “raging” isn’t a great look.

Moreover, the way Bono deploys it, “girly” becomes synonymous with inferior and weak, just as that tedious sub-playground craze for calling people and things “gay” suggested that homosexuality was inferior and weak. And just as Lewis Hamilton mocking his young nephew for wearing a princess dress (Hamilton has since apologised) displayed an attitude that any male wearing female clothing was… you guessed it, inferior and weak.

Finally, if Bono thinks “girlies” (musicians, actors or anyone else) haven’t been all about the “rage” this year, then where has he and his fly shades been, post-Weinstein? All over the arts and beyond, in 2017 women have given men masterclasses in the kind of righteous rage that doesn’t require a drum roll for introduction.