Amelia Lester

shouting at you and they will stop at nothing.

I mean, I sound like Hugh Grant, you know, how he went on that long crusade against the British tabloids and you sort of think world's tiniest violin for the rich, famous celebrities.

But I think there's something to the idea that it can be very confronting, especially for women to have all these people shouting at you.

What about now that you're visibly pregnant?

Does that change it again?

That's absolutely true.

And I can say that because I have a control group.

I have a girl and a boy who are very similar ages.

Hmm.

And whenever I am out in public with them without my partner, so it's the three of us, without exception, someone will always, always say something weird.

creepy or unpleasant to my daughter, never to my son.

So it's like your son's invisible.

It's not that he's invisible.

It's that people don't regard him as their business.

Yeah, right.

He's not their business.

She's their business.

And I have an example just from this weekend.

We were on the light rail here in Sydney and it has a button that you press to ask them

to stop at the next stop.