Dostoevski does not tell you what to think about his legend, but he requires that you think about it. The novelist was a deeply religious man and he always thought many readers missed that point about him.

Women can break down barriers to opportunity, and men, many of them reluctantly, have learned to relate to women as their equals in thought and action. But except for an eccentric few, women do not want to become warriors.

If a man's from Texas, he'll tell you. If he's not, why embarrass him by asking?

I think those viewers missed the point,

There is always a period when a man with a beard shaves it off. This period does not last. He returns headlong to his beard.

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person. Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.