They own a house where they shot the best American movie ever made.
No, it's not.
No? Why not? I think so.
Well, yeah, I mean, you would.
All right, what's that supposed to mean?
It's because you're nostalgic for the solid days of the patriarchy.
They're undeniably great movies.
Men love The Godfather because they feel emasculated by modern society. It's a fantasy about a time when they could go out and solve all their problems with violence and sleep with every woman... And then come home to their wife who doesn't ask them any questions and makes them pasta.
Hey, hey, hey. It's a normal male fantasy.
No, movies like that socialize men into having that fantasy.
Movies like that exist because men already do have that fantasy. We're hard-wired.
Mm. Comes with the testosterone.
No. Gender is a construct. It's created.
You spent all that money on Stanford, he comes back brainwashed.
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