Women Are More Masochistic Than I Thought

The 1980s and 1990s were this hotbed of essentialist feminism. There was a really popular discourse basically saying that men are men and women are women and you just can't do anything about it. And so kind of the apotheosis of this comes into the year 2000 when we get the movie That Women Want, starring Mel Gibson. The story of a man's man who's listening to what women want. I feel like my most burning memory from that film is when he finally is trying to use female products in an advertising agency. He's like, oh my gosh, this is actually really hard and painful. Oh, women are more macho than I realized. Damn Hot