An edited version of an article in The Oldie mag. by Matthew Norman.
Worth a read! 
Quote;
"The idea of female equality strikes me as an absurdity, if not an abomination. What I believe in passionately - what anyone on nodding terms with common sense knows for the plain and simple truth - is female superiority.
After almost 55 years of observing the species, it is crystal clear that in every regard other than one, women are by a colossal margin its better half.
The rule- proving exception concerns the final stage of the supermarket experience.
The leading source here is the philosopher Homer Simpson. As a husband, father, friend and colleague, Simpson elegantly franks the theory of laughable masculine inferiority on his own. As a commentator on the check-out gender divide he stands alone however, as he confirmed on a Springfield supermarket outing by choosing to queue for a check-out behind 20 men rather than a lone woman. To Sigmund Freud, famously, the most impenetrable mystery of human existence was what women want. But Freud never shopped in the Bayswater Waitrose in 2018. Had he done so, he'd have cracked it wide open.
What women want is to understand that, at the end of the process when the bill is calculated, they will be be expected to pay for whatever they put in the trolley.
My card is to hand long before the last item is scanned. The nanosecond the checkout person reveals the amount, into the machine it goes. It's not hard. If it was, it would be beyond me. Yet to 93.4% of female supermarket shoppers the request for payment is invariably astounding. It doesn't matter how many times they have been there before. It could be a hundred or a trillion. Whenever the checkout operative says "That's £73-49 ' it's always a JFK moment.....viscerally shocking, but forgotten by the next time, when again the purse is in the depths of her handbag buried beneath the 19 items that still need packing in the carrier bags......
Suffice it to say that this temple to genteel, middle-class shopping sensibilities isn't what it was - and that the horrific queues make it a moral imperative for every customer of every gender to avoid a place where the poor sods stretch back, like the biblical host of Israelites in the wilderness to the table sauces section at the far end of aisle 11." End of quote!
As a mere male I thought it made a good read, but sorry I couldn't copy/paste it into a GN forum; still a work in progress! 
