"We are a generation of men raised by women. I'm starting to think another woman isn't the answer."

--Fight Club

Ironically, that comes after a speech about how the character's father failed him, in which the mother isn't mentioned at all.

It's a film about male rage, and as such made a big splash among men of a certain age and persuasion. It's also a good movie. But it's intensely and vigorously misogynistic.

I love movies. I really do. I don't fall into the "I don't watch TV/movies" nose-in-air crowd. I love books, I make them for a living, but I love movies too. And it kills me that there are so few movies that portray any kind of normal female sexuality, motivation, psychology, or identity. We are on the sidelines--unless the point of the film is to say something about the wickedness of angry feminists or the wickedness of any other kind of woman who takes the spotlight from a man. And sadly, women themselves make a lot of these films. Spielberg is perhaps the most pernicious kind, because women are simply invisible to him--they are rewards or punishments, and they have no psychology. It's easy to spot the hatred in fight Club--they just come out and say it. Spielberg is harder to accuse.

But didn't you hear? The feminist fight is won. Now everything can go back to normal--what a relief!