I write to voice my irritation, not to say anger, about what Daphne Caruana Galizia wrote in her article “Josie Churchill and Winston Sammut” (TMID, 12 July), and in particular the following paragraph: “As for the housewives of my age and older, the sad truth is that Maltese women in their late 30s upwards are, as a general rule, more poorly educated than men. The vast majority would have left school at 14, 15 or 16, gone headlong into marriage and children, and thereafter lost all interest in anything outside their immediate environment. It’s only just beginning to change as, with a curious twist of the information age, it is now housewives who are exposed to more media than men are, as they sit at home with the television and radio on”.

What she wrote is an insult to all Maltese women, particularly those women who got married and had children. How can she say that because they decided to do so they are “more poorly educated than men”? Who does she think she is to make such a statement? Is she including herself among the Maltese women who are poorly educated or does she think she is of a higher level?

There are many women – who Daphne calls housewives in a disparaging manner – who can teach your contributor a lesson or two on life, politics and all. Just to mention one example, the last time I was at the hairstylist’s the “uneducated” housewives were talking about the impact of the changeover from the lira to the euro, a topic that Daphne hardly mentions, if ever.

Daphne should be more respectful of other people’s opinions. She accuses others of trying to brainwash people, and yet falls in the same trap by trying to brainwash us herself with her endless repetitions which, I am sorry to say, you allow her to write.

As an editor, I would expect you to ask her “aren’t you fed up of writing the same things over and over again?” Well, what I can say is that I am fed up of reading more of the same.

C. Mifsud

Pieta