Yeah, it's not that I thought oh, but women won't be violent. More that it seemed weird that they would be violent in exactly these familiar well-worn ways. Also, it's notable that not a single POV in this book ever brushes up against the idea of making a new better world. Not really. Not ever meaningfully. And they wouldn't, since Alderman had to get most of her main characters to that nihilist place at the end. But it's still a remarkable omission.