[Shaun]

I'd agree with DouglasS here - there've been quite a few comments about Joe's appearance this series and no one's really batted an eyelid. Of course women are subject to more of it, but to pretend it's just Isabelle being singled out is a little bit myopic.

I would however agree with the complaint that the female HMs are far more liberally called slags, sluts, *****s, prostitutes, wicked evil witches, etc, than any male HM is called a thug or an ape or something similar saved for males. Lotan's been called many things but few are gender-specific.