Heart of Gold loses its feminist credential as far as I'm concerned because OMG what the bloody hell are they doing letting Simon (who obviously hasn't a clue about obstetrics, let alone midwifery) anywhere near that poor girl who ends up labouring on her back all the way through the episode? Because I refuse to believe that there's no one in that house who knows how birth works.

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Sorry. I've been proofreading Midwifery Matters, which always gets me a little hot under the collar with regard to birth. But honestly, that did spoil the whole episode for me. Birth is a feminist issue and I can't stand the way that all the (otherwise brilliant) female characters stand back and let Simon blunder around like a bumblebee in a jam jar.

*wanders off to write a more sensible comment lower down*