In light of recent articles regarding the late Jeffrey Epstein, when will we desist from using the misnomer “underage girls”, and use the correct term, “children”?
Lynne Roberts
Glasgow
• How cross I feel after reading Gaby Hinsliff’s article (For women the loss of looks can liberate us, 10 August). Weird isn’t it, but I still have what she callls “looks” as do all women of every age, regardless of whether we are “stared at” by men, or not. Hinsliff assumes we all feel a “pulverising loss”. Could Guardian writers please step up and write for all women – we lesbians have never particularly wanted to be the objects of the male gaze.
Jane Hoy
Pennal, Gwynedd
• Alan Partridge is, we are told, “inherently wedded to the road” (Aha! It’s the Partridge must have a car defence, 14 August). But perhaps even more comic effect could result from a driving ban for the character which would force him to experience the perceived indignity of travelling on public transport?
Anne Liddon
Tynemouth
• I have sympathy with the cauliflower growers whose crops are lost (Report, 13 August). We grow our own cauliflowers and have had to abandon the crop. After a promising start with good cream curds they suddenly changed colour and bolted. ow on the compost heap. The variety? Boris.
Stephen Read
Kendal, Cumbria
• Good to see Lowell George get name-checked (Letters, 14 August) but Old Folks Boogie was written and sung by his Little Feat colleague Paul Barrere.
Russ Moseley
Leamington Spa, Warwickshire
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