Cathy Newman

But I wonder in some ways if women get more confident as they age and maybe, well, I suppose it's hard to generalise, isn't it?

Maybe some men lose a bit of confidence.

Maybe some men get more and more confident as well.

So maybe it's hard to generalise.

I think if you're still there as a woman...

that's true but you probably do feel more confident because you've had to ride through a few storms and storms i mean you know in my must have been my 30s i guess was when i really i remember i'd just come back from um now let me get this right yeah i just come back from my first maternity leave and twitter had just hit and i remember the first like twitter storm i was involved in and the sort of

a horrendous abuse and very misogynistic abuse aimed at me.

And I remember just feeling completely, you know, decent.

It's sort of like I was a piece of meat being kicked around in the street, like I wasn't a human being.

And I remember the shock of that.

Like, I really felt like I was in shock.

There were moments when I didn't... I couldn't remember what I was doing because I was so...

You know, it was it just swamped me.

And then now I just think I don't even look at it anymore.

I don't look at all that stuff coming my way.

And I don't care.

And I said that to one of my male presenting colleagues not so long ago.

And they said, oh, but you do really care, don't you?

Do you know what?

I really don't care what someone with an egg on their head, you know what I mean, an egg for their identity, their handle on Twitter, or probably a bot.