Since the release of Adolescence on Netflix, there has been a lot of discussion about what it is to be male and toxic masculinity, which the Guardian has participated in. I was therefore particularly disappointed to see that the headline on your article about pigeon theft (1 April) began with “I cried like a little boy”. I appreciate that it comes from a quotation of an interviewee, but please don’t use subediting to reinforce ideas that grown men don’t cry. Surely we are all seeing the damage these nonsensical societal messages inflict on men, and all of us.
Dr Imogen Kearns
NHS clinical psychologist, London
• Ruth Ogden’s article is very insightful on the unsettling effect on humans of changing the clocks (Changing your clock? Scientists are only just beginning to understand what this does to us, 29 March). Our dog’s intriguing inner clock knows pee-times, tea-times, me-times and walkie-times. He thinks we get confused about this twice a year, but knows we are only human.
Rosalind Gillan
Huddersfield, West Yorkshire
• If a Half Man Half Biscuit-related letter (30 March) starts “There is nothing better…”, you should only have published it if it was submitted written on the sole of a slipper with a Biro. Yours, about to switch the kitchen light off with my chin.
David Lea
London
• Owing to the inability of Royal Mail to deliver even first-class post in anything like a timely manner, maybe Mother’s Day should be rebranded as Mother’s Week.
Stuart Harrington
Burnham-on-Sea, Somerset
• San Serriffe is bracing for a visit from JD Vance (Letters, 1 April).
Sue Ball
Brighton
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