I was talking to Kylie this morning and she told me that one of her girlfriends’ husbands had been having an affair, and that Kylie’s girlfriend has recently found out and of course is upset. I said I thought that was terrible and was saying to Kylie I wonder why so many men have affairs like that. Unfortunately, Big Ears Stuart heard us and had to butt in of course. His argument was that the same number of women are involved in illicit affairs as are men, as for every man having an affair with a woman, there is a woman having an affair with a man. But because it is ungallant for men to mention this, the myth continues. He said it’s a mathematical equality.
This didn’t seem right to Kylie and me, but we couldn’t explain why. We felt it must be some sort of male mathematical trick. In my opinion, Stuart is a mathematical inequality. He’s so inconvenient. I said to him that he always thinks he’s right, and he replied that he doesn’t deliberately say things that he thinks are wrong, and do I?
Kylie told me later, after Suart had gone, that actually the same friend had had an affair some time ago, but it was only because she was feeling unappreciated by her husband, which we both agreed was fair enough.