Hamlet observed

Irigaray writes that women's pleasure in life, and thus there use of language, is more diverse than man's "unitary, phallic pleasure." Due to this, she says, "he is unable to discern [her] coherence." This criticism can explain a lot about Hamlet. He does not have one scene in Hamlet where he speaks to female without a streamlined agenda, to belittle them for no other reason than their own sexuality. He is disgusted with his mother for having allowed herself to be penetrated by a man other than his father; therefore, he despises Ophelia as he projects the actions of his mother onto all females. He is not open to the idea that his mother might actually love Claudius or that they are compatible. He is worried only about the consummation of the two. He is, then, blinded with rage/dejection (depending on who's delivering the lines), and cannot see outside of his unitary sphere of thought. I think that Shakespeare touches on man's greatest weakness: his inability to converse with a woman without thinking about getting in her pants. And I can't say that we've evolved much, in this aspect, in the last few centuries. It is both the great pleasure and curse of being a man. Like Donnie Darko says, "What's the point of living if you don't have a dick?"