“The NHS treats people for example who play rugby,” Charlotte Vere, the founder of a think tank named Woman On, pointed out on the BBC program. “They chose to treat people who have sexually transmitted diseases. Are we going to make moral judgments?”

Oh yes, we most certainly are. This taps into our disgust for what’s seen as a fundamentally female character flaw. Vanity, thy name is woman. So, the argument goes: vain women deserve everything that happens as result of their vanity, even if the results include consequences that couldn’t possibly have been foreseen. There is no such similar scorn in discussing, say, a hockey enforcer whose brain was turned to poutine because of the violent job he excelled at and chose to pursue. Rather, there is sadness and pity and calls for reform of the sport.