The Cow cackled! "Aha!" she roared. "You've reached a plane of enlightenment where women have been waiting for aeons!"
Mr Timberland looked abashed and protested feebly. The Cow was having none of it, however.
"You see!" she crowed, "your Y chromosome is under threat! I told you all that cycling and leg shaving could only lead to tears!"
Mr Timberland abruptly changed the subject.
Later, the Cow asked Gramsci, "how is it that augmenting levels of testosterone has led to men becoming neutered?"
Gramsci shook his head. "Blame women!" he suggested. "Since someone let them out of the kitchen, men are having to compete not only with each other, but also with a whole new bunch of contenders!"
The Cow rolled her eyeballs.
"Besides," Gramsci added, "if women are out there taking part, who's going to bring the beer during the Rugby? No wonder men's Y chromosomes are wilting!"
Erica Jong, writing in the Sixties and Seventies, had this to say about walking on the wild side: "Back in the days when men were hunters and chest beaters and women spent their whole lives worrying about pregnancy or dying in childbirth, they often had to be taken against their will. Men complained that women were cold, unresponsive, frigid.
"They wanted their women wanton. They wanted their women wild. Now women were finally learning to be wanton and wild - and what happened? The men wilted."