From an interview:
Men in this society are under a lot more pressure than women to play their roles. Of course women also have their roles, but they can break out a lot easier, or step out of line. With men that's immediately interpreted as dropping out or something. Men are expected to conform. To that extent they're more boring, on the whole. When women venture outside of society, they don't immediately fit into that nineteenth-century stereotype of the woman of the night.
Not to mention the lack of a masculine equivalent to Boston marriage.
I find it awful when a person in a film talks the way people talk in real life. In my opinion that robs a thought of its general strength. How should I put it? It reduces everything to something the moviegoer can reject, simply because he doesn't happen to speak this dialect, doesn't move this particular way in real life. In my opinion artificiality offers the only possibility for giving a broad spectrum of moviegoers access to the specific world of an artistic work.
Fassbinder, Douglas Sirk, and Oscar Wilde, sittin' in a tree...
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