Should menopausal women wear a badge?

ITV’S Loose Women host Andrea McLean has suggested a campaign to highlight the ‘blight’ of the menopause by encouraging women to wear M-badges. I agree with Mail columnist Amanda Platell that this is anti-women. The ‘change’ is a natural process and, while for some it can prove difficult, it is not an illness. I viewed being menopausal as a ‘pause between men’ and married my third husband when I was 49 and he was 40. It was my best ever decision and certainly not the result of a muddled, menopausal brain glitch. Get on with it, girls: if you want the same terms in work and society as men, toughen up! L. MOZAR LOTT, Whitehill, Hants. I COMMISERATE with menopausal women. During hormone treatment for prostate cancer, I suffered hot flushes. They are uncomfortable and embarrassing, but an M-badge is not the answer. I was given a printed card so I could show it to people to jump the queue in the Gents. Thankfully, that problem is resolved. So instead of a badge that no one will recognise, Andrea McLean should print cards she can give to other passengers when she needs to open a window to cool down on a train or bus journey. BILL PAGE, Bishop’s Stortford, Herts. IF THE M-badge becomes popular, might I suggest a yellow-and-black hazard design with a central WMD logo (woman with menopausal disposition). Men could be awarded the MM (married to the menopause). The VM (victim of the menopause), cast from broken teacups, would give access to free support facilities, including community refuges (shed or pub) and ‘tiptoeing on eggshells’ training. JON CARR, Chesterfield, Derbys.