Females. Can't live with 'em, can't sustain the human race without 'em. But! You can write books about them, so they're not entirely without merit. Just a week into the new year and two well-publicised books – Leslie C Bell's Hard to Get and Steve Biddulph's Raising Girls – are about to be published, telling us what to do about these young female-type people who are, they say, deeply, deeply troubled, beset on all sides by confused cultural messages, promiscuity and eating disorders ("Lions and tigers and bears – oh my!")...