Guillermo Del Toro said in 2007: "War and fascism are, I think, boys’ games. I’ve never heard of a great female fascist dictator. I can’t think of a woman dictator who started a war. It’s a very phallic concern."

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Kind of an old interview, but I´m honestly suprised as how he referred to dictartorship and facism as genetic to males:

"War and fascism are, I think, boys’ games. I’ve never heard of a great female fascist dictator. I can’t think of a woman dictator who started a war. It’s a very phallic concern.

Do you think this tendency toward dictatorship and fascism is genetic?

I think it is in mammalian genes. As mammals, we divide certain tasks according to gender: the male is stupidly territorial, for example, and the female is, in reality, the hunter, the retriever, and the nurturer. It’s taken to limits when you add human concerns like religion and politics, absolute perversions of the natural order."