Female directors hardly explore the male body

Following VS Naipaul's comments that he can identify the gender of an author by reading two paras, film lovers wonder whether it is possible to discern the gender of a director by watching some scenes of a movie
VS Naipaul has, yet again, ruffled feathers by claiming that women writers are "sentimental" and "unequal" to him. Not stopping at that, he even claimed: "I read a piece of writing and within a paragraph or two, I know whether it is by a woman or not.I think (it is) unequal to me. This is because of women’s sentimentality, and their narrow view of the world. A woman, she is not a complete master of a house, so that comes over in her writing too."
Half the world has begun debating over whether it’s indeed possible to judge the gender of an author by watching the first two paragraphs. In fact, online quizzes have been getting a lot of hits from netizens taking the "Nailpaul test" where 10 extracts of novels have been tabulated and participants asked to identify the gender of the author! With Naipaul stirring the hornet’s nest, the next question that’s haunting people’s mind is whether it is possible to identify the gender of a director by watching a few scenes. Says actor Tillotama Shome, “VS Naipaul is highly gifted or deluded if he believes that he has the power to discern the gender of a writer after reading two stanzas. His disparagement toward Jane Austen's work as being sentimental is narrow-minded. Unlike Naipual's self proclaimed literary supremacy, Jane Austen was aware of the scope of her writing and chose to write within the "the little bit (two inches wide) of ivory" that she knew best.
I believe I can watch the first two scenes of a film and tell if it’s a film I would like to watch. A film does tell you about the film-makers politics and the restraints under which it was made rarely the gender of its maker. At least, I have no such rare talent!”
Director Bappaditya Bandopadhyay admits that he can’t understand the gender of a director when he watches a movie. “I agree with Naipaul’s views on literature. When women write, they have a point of view which is different from that of men. I am reading a novel by Sushmita Bose titled Single in the City. I can make out that it is written by a woman by the way men are described by the author. But that’s not the case when it comes to cinema. While male directors have always explored the female body, I don’t find that honesty when female directors are exploring the male body. In fact, female directors hardly explore the male body. I don’t see a feminine point of view when I watch movies made by women directors.