Emma Watson crying

Last summer, over お茶, 紅茶 for two in a ロンドン hotel — because that, readers, is how we rock 'n' roll — we began a conversation about women and men, our differences and similarities, what unites us and what divides us. We talked about フレンズ and families, about situations at work and at home, and about how fevered and fraught the ディベート around gender equality has become.

It is, of course, one of the great conversations a woman and a man can have — well, OK, maybe not, but it beats the old do-you-come-here-often? routine — and we've been having it, in one form または another, since we were...