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Donald Trump’s sex ‘banter’ is sadly all too common

Zombie glares? Louis Vuitton models at Paris fashion week, 5 October 2016.
Zombie glares? Louis Vuitton models at Paris fashion week, 5 October 2016. Photograph: Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images

I can’t stand Donald Trump but I can stand hypocrisy even less. Are we seriously pretending that the way Trump spoke about women (Apology for sex ‘banter’, 8 October) is some sort of aberration that you’d never find in other powerful, entitled men, whatever their politics? When I was at university I walked out of a dinner party full of public schoolboys who had spent the entire evening discussing the breasts of our fellow undergraduates. The other girls didn’t seem to mind, but I did and I still do. Women – walk out. Men – grow up.
Helen Clutton
Dorchester, Dorset

• Could we please have an end to the endless pictures of models with very grim looks on their faces (Vuitton twists a classic to blend fashion with a slice of commerce, 6 October)? The models and clothes would look so much more appealing with a pleasant face, or even a smile, instead of the sour zombie glares.
Ann Farrington
Lazonby, Cumbria

• I have just read the Sport section of Saturday’s Guardian. I cannot find one word – NOT ONE WORD – about women’s sport or any woman playing sport. Really? I guess we are all staying in bed or on our couches for the weekend!
Alison Shipwright
Devoran, Cornwall

• Steven Woolfe must be grateful for reciprocal EU health agreements (Ukip MEP collapses after ‘confrontation’, 7 October).
Toby Wood
Peterborough, Cambridgeshire

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