I know Antonio Banderas' character read Andrea Dworkin and that ending doesn't do him justice.
The essence of oppression is that one is defined from the outside by those who define themselves as superior by criteria of their own choice. That is why women are defined—from the outside, by men—as masochistic. Masochism is intrinsically both provocation and submission. The ideology that justifies force against women, and at the same time makes that force invisible, requires that masochism be the normal…
