Men are fat, lazy, unintelligent criminals. Now I am not one to base an article on one sided, idle remarks based on total ignorance, so I shall take this opportunity to capture every reader's interest by backing what I say with 100% pure facts.

Fact 1: Men are fat! 47% of men are overweight compared to only 33% of women. Hard to believe, as it may seem it is clearly evident when you glance around our towns and see the studs perched on street corners with pakoras bulging out of their sorry fat bellies.

It is absurd how when every Asian guy is asked who his ideal woman is, they all begin to salivate at thoughts of Aishwariya Rai look-alikes. It is also no wonder that the correlation between eating disorders and women seems to be forever increasing. We eat less to compensate for you eating more!

This leads me on neatly to fact 2: men are lazy. It has been identified that women do more household chores than men. On average men spend more than 16 hours a week sat in front of the telly, whilst women engage busily in ironing, cooking, cleaning and running after truant children.

Fact 3 is likely to create a great controversy and lead to many male readers being furious, but men are more intellectually challenged compared to women. For instance girls outperform boys at GCSE and A-Level and so it appears that this innate ability in females to have this upper hand seems to be embedded in us from a very young age.

Fact 4: Four out of five law offenders are male, so there are more male criminals compared to females. When you consider these facts it is no wonder that the number of women in the world far outweighs the number of men.

I am not a new age feminist - I am simply wholeheartedly angered by some men who portray their anonymous opinions in a manner that aims to make then the voice of reason. I cannot even begin to contemplate how some thoughtless men see the need to resort to generalising their opinions in a manner that makes them authoritative sources on Asian women.

My belief is that Asian women are less likely to be stereotyped negatively by non-Asians than by men from our own communities. Stereotyping as such is unnecessary and, to be quite frank, uncalled for. Blame it on our vanity but the need to defend us women is a great one. If our men are not going to defend us and praise our achievements the only rational stance for us to take is to stick together.

There is a need for men to understand the differing roles that Asian women play. From traditional wife, mother, daughter in law to the more worldly wonder of the world we find ourselves performing some funky balancing act. Praise needs to be given to women such as these. Belated recognition is deserved.

The point that the above facts make is that although they are the statistics, they are not representative of all men. Mature, adult comprehension can lead us all to see that there are some very intelligent and worthy of praise men out there. Men that are standing by us women, helping us to pave our own way through life.

Men that act as rocks and mentally stimulate our minds when the shadow of failure falls in our path. It is a tough world out there being a woman, but it is a world that is made twice as tough for us being Asian women. We need the support of our male counterparts not their fierce opposition.

I believe myself to be very blessed to have my father in my life, as he is such a man. If only more of the educated yet conversely narrow-minded could take heed from him.

Whichever route a woman decides to follow be it staying at home or going on to further education or working, all women play a very respective and valuable role in our society. Applause is long overdue.