Show me a frigid women and, nine times out of ten, I’ll show you a little man.

Burchill’s line uses provocation and gendered insult to argue that women’s sexual “frigidity” is often less an innate trait than a reaction to male insecurity, selfishness, or inadequacy (“a little man”). The “nine times out of ten” framing presents the claim as a near-rule, shifting responsibility from the woman’s body to the dynamics of heterosexual power and pleasure. In this reading, the quote critiques a culture that pathologizes women’s desire while excusing men’s failures as lovers or partners. It also exemplifies Burchill’s polemical style: compressing a feminist argument into a punchy, confrontational aphorism that invites debate about blame, sexual entitlement, and the politics of naming women’s sexuality.