It’s not enough, apparently, to condemn Harvey Weinstein as a priapic creep. You have to condemn him in the approved feminist way. An absolute no-no, if you’re male, is to say that you hate the idea of your daughter being harassed in the way that Weinstein’s victims were.

Social media offer a sometimes disturbing insight into the misanthropy and aggression that roils inside many outwardly civilized people. More common, and often more vehement, than the straightforward denunciations of Harvey’s behavior were the denunciations of those who had denounced him inappropriately. Here, to pluck an example more or less at random, is a Tweet by someone called Abigail Shirley which, as I write, has been liked by 78,000 people.