If Wagman's homicidal men are adrift in pitiable fantasies of mastery, her women find themselves at loose ends in a world that seems simply to contain no role for them beyond wife or girlfriend or mother.
This is where grand satire on the order of Chuck Palahniuk's "Fight Club" is needed; that was a novel whose cast of homicidal men concocted a testosterone-driven Newspeak out of self-mutilation, cancer support groups and, when necessary, explosives.
Genki is a "homicidal man-cat" whose Super Ethical Reality Climax competitions are popular in Steelport, and the leader of the Saints is invited to participate in his annual Genkibowl.
On military websites you can read plenty of comments of comradely support for these homicidal men who so heroically "offed the bitches".
Dr Brown has spent decades taking "play histories" from patients, after discerning its absence when studying a group of homicidal young men.
Brown arrived at his own conclusions through his research in neurology and psychiatry, where he observed consistent play deprivation in the childhood of homicidal young men.
Yet in the course of 48 hours, the lives of these three women were abruptly and horribly linked together: they were, all three, the targets of homicidal attacks by men with whom they had had romantic relationships.
When a Tutsi man confesses homicidal anger toward the Hutu who killed his family, the priest offers practical advice.
Max is already on the hit list of the homicidal Evil Ice Cream Man (Jamie Kennedy), who pursues him in Max's dreams, firing ice cream balls from a giant cone atop his truck, and by day, when he would happily mash the boy into the pavement.
