Despite what Anna Karin Kingston, (Letters, October 17), may claim, feminists cannot be depended on to help men.

Your columnist Victoria White ‘stands by her Irish men’ and queries the existence of the National Women’s Council (October 11 p12).

ANNA Karin Kingston once locked her son in the boot of the car. He had gone wild in the supermarket, damaging the trolleys and threatening mayhem throughout the shop. But the shopping had to be done, so she dragged him, kicking and screaming, out to the car park.