No joke: James Cameron is responsible for some of the greatest movies in the global cinematic canon. The first two Terminators, Aliens, True Lies, many others. The dude is an artistic genius and he deserves respect on those merits.

He also appears to be...something of a big-time weenie. I mean like a Grade-A, Class 5 ween. At least judging by his late remarks about men and women.

Example number one: Testosterone is allegedly a "toxin:"

"A lot of things I did earlier, I wouldn't do — career-wise and just risks that you take as a wild, testosterone-poisoned young man," he says, declining to specify further. "I always think of [testosterone] as a toxin that you have to slowly work out of your system."

Uh huh. Sounds like at one point in his life James Cameron had trouble controlling his temper and he's decided to blame it on "testosterone." News flash, Jim: This is false. Your problem wasn't your normal male hormones, it's that you didn't teach yourself self-control and temperamental grace and restraint — all things that responsible men have to learn at some point or another.

Meanwhile, in addition to thinking that testosterone is some kind of poison, Cameron also apparently believes that...pregnant women should be sent to the front lines of battle?

Everybody's always talking about female empowerment. But what is such a big part of a woman's life that we, as men, don't experience? And I thought, "Well, if you're really going to go all the way down the rabbit hole of female empowerment, let's have a female warrior who's six months pregnant in battle." It doesn't happen in our society — probably hasn't happened for hundreds of years. But I guarantee you, back in the day, women had to fight for survival and protect their children, and it didn't matter if they were pregnant. And pregnant women are more capable of being a lot more athletic than we, as a culture, acknowledge. I thought, "Let's take the real boundaries off." To me, it was the last bastion that you don't see. Wonder Woman and Captain Marvel — all these other amazing women come up, but they're not moms and they're not pregnant while they're fighting evil.

Uh huh. Yeah. Okay. Aside from the obvious immorality of bringing an innocent child in utero to a deadly battle, Cameron's assumptions here are just kind of insane from a physical perspective. Has he ever met a pregnant woman? Does he know what pregnancy can do to a woman's body even in the very early months? Does he know how absurdly difficult it would be for a woman to be an effective fighter at six months pregnant?

This is just ridiculous. Nobody with even a passing understanding of human physiology would ever say such things. And no man with even an ounce of understanding of the rigors of pregnancy would ever want a heavily pregnant woman going into battle ahead of him.

Oh heck, throw up the Vito meme again, Cameron needs to here it one more time.