Françoise Gilot—the only one of Pablo Picasso’s lovers who left him before he left her—wrote in her memoir that he once said all women are either “goddesses” or “doormats.” He fought (and lost) in court to prevent the publication of that book, I guess because he thought it would make him look bad. It does. But Gilot’s account only fills in the details of a general arc of misogyny that one can easi...