Feud

12 March 2017:

"Jack Palance and Lee Marvin would have never pulled this shit."

"They didn't have to. They're men."

"Well that makes them half as cunning and nowhere near as ruthless." --Robert Aldrich (a fictional version, of course) talking with his wife, in episode two of Feud, discussing how difficult it is to work with two powerful women.

Look: this is Ryan Murphy show, so it's all sorts of over the top, including this little exchange. But I've just spent a couple of hours working on an article about teaching my women's studies class and student after student is making the same argument in their essays. There's some real truth there and it made me laugh to hear it come up just as I finished typing up my latest pages.