I have a question that stalks us all: why have so many men gone toxic?
This certainly seemed the principal lesson of To Catch a Stalker (BBC3). A succession of young women, driven to their wits' ends and scared for their lives as the consequence of what we might genuinely call toxic masculinity, sought help from the authorities and were rewarded with the most meagre of outcomes. In the overwhelming majority of cases the men doing the stalking were spurned ex-boyfriends who took this blow to their self-esteem very personally indeed (although in one case it was simply a female recruitment officer who was being harassed by someone she had found a job for).
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