Daphne Caruana Galizia often goes overboard with her thoughts.

Her latest contribution, Josie Churchill and Winston Sammut (TMID, 12 July), was one such occasion.

She denigrates Maltese women her age – what, 50 or thereabouts, she did not specify? – of being, as a general rule, “more poorly educated than men”. How can you make such generalisations?

I know women of around 50, if that is the age Daphne is referring too, who are so well-educated that they can keep up a conversation better than their husbands.

So why would Daphne think she has the right to put us all in one basket?

The way her article was written made me think that she believes that she is the only cultured woman of her age. She is so preposterous as to suggest that all other women “lost interest in anything outside their immediate environment.”

I am 49 years of age, have a husband and two children in their late teens, only stopped working for five years until my younger child was three years old, and keep abreast with all that is happening around me. I watch the news regularly, read the newspapers every day and can talk about any subject under the sun except for football.

So please, Daphne, stop making sweeping statements which put you on the same wavelength as those people you often accuse of trying to brainwash others.

Carmen Micallef

Birkirkara