Women Directors

Of films, that is, not of companies. Recently I have seen two films directed by women. They were both efficiently directed though the second was a trifle flashy in technique. This was called "Beautiful Kate" and was an Australian film based on a novel, adapted for the screen by the director, none other than the once georgeous (she may still be for all I know) Rachel Ward.
I had formed the impression from at least two other films directed by women that they tended to go for stories which made men seem inferior, brutish, unfeeling..... In short I gained the impression that these women directors didn't like men much - or at all possibly. There were "American Psycho" directed by Mary Harron and "Leaving" by Catherine Corsini. The first was an exceedingly nasty portrayal of a well-off New York showoff who may have been a murderer. I enjoyed the film a lot, especially those parts when the guys got together to compare banking cards they had - American Express etc. Who had the best collection? They were silly, nasty, murderous, hated women though took them to bed of course. "Leaving" was not so direct an assault on masculine behaviour; it was a subtle depiction of the mid-life crisis of a woman who takes up with a younger man and leaves her family. The director said she was tired of seeing men leaving women for younger women and thought she'd make a film in which a woman leaves.
So while both films were enjoyable and often exciting I had the impression, again, that these two directors just didn't like men. Now, I thought, going to see "Beautiful Kate", surely it won't be one of those sorts of films because Rachel Ward, surely, liked men, likes men, and would not want to depict them so one-dimensionally as the other two. And I was right. It wasn't about women leaving men, it was about a man coming home to his family where his father is dying and "finding himself"'I suppose. The concentration was on the two men rather than on the women or the girl, the beautiful Kate.
One of my problems is that I'm now hard of hearing and the Australian accents in this film were not good for me (nor for my hearing aids). So I lost a lot of the depth of charactisation and often the storyline at times. I find, now, that foreign films are better for me because they have subtitles.
But why is it that when I see old films of the 40's, 50's and 60's I can inderstand every word yet films made today I find difficult to hear? I watched "Advise and Consent" the other day and heard every word, yet with American series, like CSI, I just don't know what they are saying, especially the women in them.