I love seeing Alek Wek in fashion shoots – she's just got that thing about her: grace, beauty, strength. You don't forget her face. What an incredible story. I really appreciate what she's done for the industry and how she's such an inspiration for so many women.
Devon Clark
Palm Harbor, Florida
As a female sixth-form student, I have been subjected to the kind of everyday sexism Laura Bates talks about for most of my secondary school life. Girls are often labelled "slut" or "slag", whereas boys aspire to be a "lad" or "player" – we're so used it to that girls even call each other these derogatory terms. There is also the constant pressure of being viewed as attractive by boys. It's exhausting and damaging, and we should not have to tolerate it. Education is needed to show that these attitudes are not appropriate in our so-called "equal" society.
Sophie Veitch
Ripon, North Yorkshire
It would be naive to pretend that men and boys aren't under similar pressures from the world around them. So the situation is even worse than Laura Bates suggests: everyday sexism against women is just one component of the much larger and much more problematic issue of how we all, men and women, relate to idealised images in the media that surrounds us.
Luke Berryman
Botley, Oxford
I could weep for both the girls and the boys. At 14, to have access to porn and to absorb it as the normalised version of sex is abusive to both genders. This is not a feminist problem; it is not even a female problem – this is a problem at the deepest level of society. By turning a blind eye, by shrugging our shoulders, by rolling our eyes and saying, "Typical boy", we reinforce the behaviour that finds its expression in everyday sexism. We are brutalising our children and then being surprised that there is a problem.
Alison McDonald
Rathdrum, Co Wicklow, Ireland
Boys have huge trouble growing up in modern society: certainly when teaching a teenage class, I find boys seem to be 13 going on six and girls 13 going on 16. Slagging off women in the street and on the internet, or groping them on the tube, will not win hearts and love for the boys. More education and awareness-raising for boys towards tender loving is likely to yield benefits for them as much as for the young women they meet.
Michael Morgan
Exeter, Devon
Will Lucy Mangan let us know how Toryboy is "Shapping up" to bingogate and Gidiot's other budget measures?
Elwyn Morgan
Bognor Regis, West Sussex
Rebecca Gamble makes the common mistake of confusing asylum and economic migration. Nobody gets asylum from poverty, and not all asylum seekers are poor. Successful asylum seekers have all proved themselves victims of in most cases life-threatening persecution.
Stephen Newton
Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester
Tim Dowling's column about meeting an actor and not realising who it was reminded me of a flight I was on last year. I chatted away to a great-looking guy beside me only to discover minutes before we landed that it was Michael Bublé. I genuinely didn't have a clue and only afterwards did I realise how fortunate I was, because he has been known to make grown women cry and faint in his presence.
Elaine Campbell
Dublin
Cheap and cheerful ways to brighten your home? If I'd paid £180 for an empty bottle, I would be far from cheerful.
Claire Gale
Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
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