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We need to move away from the absurd notion that women dress in a certain way solely for the pleasure of men (Comment, 14 May). Women should be able to dress as they please, without labelling and stigmatisation. The issue is one of power. Women must reject being used as commodities within the capitalist machinery that renders them passive recipients of the male gaze. The SlutWalk movement should certainly be spread worldwide. I hope it will encourage women to take control over their bodies in a subjective way and not as objects.
Maria Georgiou
London
• The High Pay Commission claims that top earners' share of national income could rise from the current 5% to 14% by 2030 (Pay gap widening to Victorian levels, 16 May). I don't understand – Conservatives insist that in the free market, wealth "trickles down" to the poor. Have they got it wrong, or have they simply been lying to us all this time?
Dr Pete Dorey
Reader in British politics, Cardiff University
• The composer Bela Bartok collected a number of folk dances from Hungary and what is now Romania, including a young man's solo dance that ends by kicking the ceiling (Letters, 16 May). He pointed out that while he welcomed improvements in the dwellings of his informants that progress brought, he regretted the likely extinction of this dance as ceilings got ever higher. He also noted a courtship dance in which the male partner seeks to impress by ever more acrobatic moves, while the female remains stationary with arms folded, looking unimpressed.
Matthew Wright
Waltham Chase, Hampshire
• One gets "fed up with fandango", not "bored with" it. Presumably Queen knew this when exhorting Scaramouche to do the same dance.
Martin Pennington
Leicester
• Stephen Hawking's remarks (Report, 16 May) remind me of the Russian cosmonauts who went up into space and reported that they had not found God.
John Bond
Oxford
