Why does modern society assume that all women want the same three things: love, sex and babies? The short answer is, because pop culture has decreed it so.
The slightly longer answer is that brilliant female novelists such as Paula Hawkins and Gillian Flynn have written bestsellers to that tune, which Hollywood has then turned into blockbusters. Flynn's contribution was "Gone Girl," the 2014 smash hit directed by David Fincher.
Hawkins' "The Girl on the Train," directed by Tate Taylor ("The Help"), has drawn another thick line under the truism of what women want. While that's not a complete falsehood, "The Girl on the Train" makes the case that love, sex and babies are the only things women strive for, even if they must sink to the lowest depths to get them. And in that sense, the movie includes a streak of misogyny to rival that of U.S. President-elect Donald Trump.