SIR - Re Mr Bird's brainwave in his letter headlined "Blame equality" (T&A, January 21), why do females always get the blame?

Delinquent children = working women; unwanted pregnancy = promiscuous women; school run clogging up the roads = women.

We are even being told to stop using plastic carrier bags for our shopping to save the ozone layer. Then there is the flatulent cow idea - what a joke when everybody knows it is hot air coming from a load of bull that is the biggest threat to the planet.

And as for equality, until there are fewer paedophiles, rapists, burglars, and murderers men will not achieve Beryl Robinson, West End, Queensbury