We see this monster in Margaret Atwood's novel The Handmaid's Tale, where a theocratic patriarchy forbids women to read books, and we see him in the movie Kinsey, in which the future sexologist's pompous, teetotaling, Bible - wielding father (played by the massive - browed John Lithgow) cows his wife at the dinner
table and disowns his
son for daring to attend a different college from the one where dad
teaches.