STEPHEN Fry's intellect and eloquence may have earned him national treasure status; but an expert in the art of diplomacy he is not. Frequently "inebriated by the exuberance of his own verbosity", the actor, writer and comedian has a propensity for blurting out ill-considered and potentially offensive comments rivalled only by Boris Johnson.Only a year ago, Fry suggested in a Channel 4 interview that the Poles were responsible for Auschwitz, a remark he himself later described as being "as idiotic, ignorant and offensive as you could imagine". And then there was all that silly business over the Pope's visit, when he added his name to a letter protesting the use of taxpayers' money to fund it, then expressed astonishment at the degree of controversy his protest had caused.
Even by Fry's standards, however, his recent comments on female sexuality - and the backlash they provoked - were remarkable. In an interview with the gay magazine Attitude, the homosexual host of QI suggested women's libidos were less powerful than men's, adding: "If women liked sex as much as men there would be straight cruising areas in the way there are gay ones."
He also claimed women only sleep with men because sex is the price they are willing to pay for a relationship, a riff on the old saying that women pretend to be interested in sex because they want love, while men pretend to be interested in love because they want sex.
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