Quaid's tart Boston-Irish accent reflects Patty Ann's flinty personality, as she snaps out complaints and often bigoted, remarks to her henpecked husband.
The stock image of the Japanese man is of a henpecked, hard-pressed, bullied and rather pathetic soul, more adept at interacting with his computer-generated girlfriend than with real people.
With top White House officials acting like henpecked husbands as they quaver in fear of upsetting the Senate Armed Services Committee majority, the Pentagon policy chief tells it like it is.