In a week when the Church of England ordained its first woman bishop, I’m still puzzled by people referring to clergy as “men in dresses”. Neither cassocks nor vestments resemble women’s dresses, any more than kilts do or the Dalai Lama’s robes. It’s meant pejoratively, and raises no smile after the 100th time. Indeed it suggests a numb touch by the writer, as though referring to foreigners “jabbering in their lingo”.Last week, in The Independent, Grace Dent wrote of the Pope as “a bloke in a frock” and, in The Guardian, Deborah Orr wrote of “men in dresses”. Their columns were very different. It was difficult to engage with Grace Dent’s. In the Philippines, she wrote, the Pope had “incited homophobia&rdqu