What women talk about

A funny article on B.B.C.

Forty-six words women might say, men probably wouldn't:

* Book club: A female dominated affair, perhaps because women read more fiction, or perhaps because men aren't very good at talking about it

* Accessorise: If men were ever to use this word it would only be in the context of cars

* Body image

* Empowering: Men never use this word, perhaps because for the 200,000 years humans have been on the planet, men have had all the power

* Burlesque:
Something involving strip-tease that can apparently involve the above

* Size zero

* Home birth

* Pilate's: Men in the UK, particularly, seem to have no interest in building up their core strength

* Pomegranate: Men seem ill-equipped to understand the significance and full range of superfoods

* Cellulite

* Absolutely beautiful: The words women often use to describe friends who are not

* Conventionally attractive: Preceded by "well I suppose she is...", a phrase women often use to describe those who actually are

* Jesse Metcalfe: A walking Athena poster, see above

* Footless tights: Strange idea, strangely popular

* Breastfeeding

* Emotional intelligence: Something that men usually do not possess, instead preferring the kind of intelligence that involves dates of battles

* Kitten heels: Or indeed heels of any other kind

* What are you thinking?: The classic female condition check

* Feminism: If even veteran feminists can't agree on what this means then it's probably best avoided by men

* Afghanistan:
A place where the debate is rather starker

* Agony aunt:
When men seek answers to life-changing problems in magazines, it tends to be under the headline "plasma or LCD?"

* Airbrushing:
The process by which magazine picture editors oppress women in an underhand way

* Flexible working

* Handbagging:
As in new Commons leader Harriet Harman's request to Theresa May not to savage her every Thursday

* Beefeater: The first female one made her debut this year

* Babies

* Superwoman

* Ms:
Extraordinarily, the battle continues for women to be allowed to avoid definition by their marital status

* Middleton: As in Kate. Style icon or harassed paparazzo target?

* Concealer

* Why: As in "why do you never call?"