Battle of the Sexes

With absolutely no statistical evidence to back me up, I would suggest that the eternal conflict between men and women provides the central theme for the overwhelming majority of movies, plays, television shows, and novels. And when the narrative drive comes from something else, as in a detective story or a historical drama you can be sure there's a secondary plot in there involving the hero and his wife or girlfriend or scheming, ambitious mother. Even Coriolanus, the bloodiest of Shakespeare's plays, has Volumnia and Virgilia. And so-called reality television is constantly pitting the "girls' team" against the "guys' team." As Rodney King famously asked, "Can't we all just get along?" But if we did, what in the world would we do for entertainment?