Feminazis will never stop men being men

Can there be a woman in the country who didn’t go weak at the knees at the sight of doting dad Benedict Cumberbatch cradling his beautiful new baby Christopher? after pushing the pram with a coffee in one hand, the celebrated actor whisked his baby into his arms and gave him a huge comforting hug.

Forget Yummy Mummies, it was an iconic image of today’s generation of new men — the Yummy Daddies.

Yummy dad is the epitome of the new man, the hero of a modern progressive family where baby-time is shared equally.

new man first came to our attention back in the Eighties, a sensitive soul as happy taking charge of a playgroup as watching Match Of The Day. In fact, he could do both at the same time, while shaving truffles over the cannelloni as his wife put her feet up.

The trouble is that figures released this week show he’s a myth.

a survey by Workingmums.co.uk has revealed that in only a fifth of couples where mum works do parents share the childcare and housework equally.

and despite the much-vaunted new law allowing men and women to share maternity leave, there’s no sign that fathers are rushing to take it up.

The survey showed the number of couples who’d consider sharing parental leave equally has actually fallen over the past year — from 44 per cent to 38 per cent. I’d eat my Hamlet programme if Benedict Cumberbatch — currently wowing London audiences six gruelling nights a week in Shakespeare’s most testing role — gets up in the morning to feed the little one, hang up the washing, empty the dishwasher and hoover the house.

It’s not a criticism, it’s simply a reflection of the difference between men and women.

The fact is that, however hard the Feminazis push their equality agenda, a mother is always going to bear the lion’s share of caring for a new child. What’s more, she wants to.

Don’t just take it from me. The mother of all Lefties, Vanessa Redgrave, believes so, too.

‘Women are different from men, and women can be stupid because they don’t acknowledge it,’ she said this week.

‘We are child-bearers primarily and once we’ve given birth to children our life is of necessity bound to them.

‘I wouldn’t advocate it being any other way.’

So there.