Have you ever had difficulty communicating with someone? Maybe it was something like this.
It absolutely is a sexist over-simplification. I was hoping someone would point that out.
I see that the reason for it is to say that "men want to fix things" and "women want to be heard." This tends to be true most of the time ... Unfortunately the (very funny) film makes this point by making women seem extraordinarily stupid and the guy look smart. I'd love to see a part 2 of the movie with the man having a nail in his head, if only to deconstruct the stereotype. ellen, wrote a brilliant play about a couple having a quarrel. The same lines are acted out four times, by a straight couple, by a gay couple, by a lesbian couple, and also by the man and the woman saying the other person's original lines.