The fact is, if Neil Lyndon didn’t live in a world where an aggressive finger is so often pointed at ‘men’ generally as a demographic, he probably wouldn’t have felt the need to write an article which caused so much controversy. If I heard a statistic telling me that two men died every week at the hands of women, my default response would be: "how terrible, what can we do to stop that?" not "well I’m a woman and I’d never do that and neither would any of my friends so it can’t be true". That’s because I live in a World where women are rarely portrayed as aggressors. I have no need to be defensive because I don’t ever think that people look at me and presume I have violent tendencies.