No “theology of women”, with its sense of the female sex as “a problem to be solved” (Karen Kilby, “Second Sex?”, 9 November) will be complete until it is matched by a “theology of men” of similar scepticism: this no less problematic sub-species that builds institutions to exclude. Genetic insights will be useful here: women as in fact the norm, men as unstable chromosomic aberrations. Chaps might see that the best they can hope to become is (in t