Isn't it really just part of the battle of the sexes?

If there’s one subject that keeps returning to the news it’s allegations about powerful men 'taking advantage' of the fairer gender.

I was a journalist for many years and once you’re trained in that world, cynicism is well and truly installed.

I was brought up, too, to respect the fairer gender, to be a gentleman, so quite an inner struggle ensues when faced with this aged syndrome.

Not long ago, we endured that film industry expose where a very well known individual was said to have taken advantage of starlets.

I think that’s the way the story went.

Whatever world we frequent, where men and women work together, Cupid is bound to be present and sometimes makes attraction very strong indeed. In the film world, a successful director is often the man with the power to set a woman onto the path to great, huge, success.

Our species is mesmerised by the supposed glamour and the unquestionable wealth that comes with being a film star.

If you desperately want that, of being a superstar whose name is known right across the world, would pleasing a director romantically be such a chore?

If we were writing a script around this subject, we’d introduce trouble when the aspiring star doesn’t make it, for some reason doesn’t become a star.

Our overly ambitious gal

Then, with dreams dashed, our unsuccessful actress might well seek revenge.

Our script based on this ancient game could be set in an NHS hospital, with the ambitious nurse attracting the hospital boss, or in a department store, or an impressionable barista who works for a very large coffee chain, a council worker who comes to the attention of the mayor. Continues on the blogs for my ocean adventuring book, Sailing to Purgatory, at SailingToPurgatory.com