In a world where Kate Winslet gets dumped and Cheryl Cole is cheated on, really, what hope do we have?

I am guessing that anyone who reads newspapers will know that, last week, Kate Winslet announced that she and her second husband were splitting up, blaming that time-honoured excuse "irreconcilable differences". Now I'm sure I'm not the only one to notice that whenever "irreconcilable differences" are cited, accusations of infidelity follow faster than Katie Price can drop her knickers (ooh, that sounded even more scathing than I intended). And, sure enough, less than twenty four hours later, it emerged that Sam Mendes (Kate Winslet's soon-to-be-ex) is "just friends" with a beautiful 27 year old actress named Rebecca Hall. Now, I'm not sure who coined the term "just friends" to mean "blatantly shagging", but couples like Brad Pitt/Angelina Jolie and Robert Pattinson/Kristen Stewart have made it quite the art form.

Anyway, that paragraph came out very bitchy, so let me try and steer towards my point. So at the moment, it's looking like Sam Mendes, an admittedly succesful, forty-something, greying, distinctly well-built geezer has spent the last few months of his marriage to the sickeningly gorgeous (and considerably younger) Kate Winslet knocking off some other woman. I'm sure I speak for the majority of the female species when I say that I consequently despise the man (unless it turns out he really is "just friends" with Rebecca Hall, at which point I may have to bite my tongue and whisper an apology, God forbid) and feel so sorry for poor Kate Winslet. Because I, personally, think she seems like a genuinely nice woman, is quite clearly an absolute stunner and was about 10 years younger than Sam Mendes anyway. So why the hell is he the one accused of cheating? Surely if someone felt that they were getting the shorter end of the stick in that particular relationship, it wouldn't be the bloke.

Another relevant point is the slightly-less-recent news that Ashley Cole cheated on his wife AGAIN and, what's more, with several different women. I'm sorry, but how selfish, thuggish and - frankly - mind-blowingly stupid do you have to be to jeopardise your marriage to the woman who was apparently voted #1 Sexiest Woman in the World last year? Every other man in the country wishes he had her, and Ashley Cole is having numerous affairs? I mean, the word 'idiot' just doesn't even approach the kind of meaning needed to label his stupidity - I'm fairly sure there isn't a word for it in the English language.

And stories like this depress me beyond all sense, for this simple reason; if goddesses like Kate Winslet and Cheryl Cole are being cheated on, what the hell chance do us poor mortal females have?!