I could swear I’ve heard that exact line from some bureaucratic functionary in a movie, providing much mirth to the protagonists. “You haven’t… spent much time around women, have you.”
ETA: It was Species.
Xavier Fitch: We decided to make it female so it would be more docile and controllable.
Preston Lennox: More docile and controllable, eh? You guys don’t get out much.
I had a coworker, an accountant, who did some side work for a government contract. The joke in government accounting circles is that they wish they could pocket the “rounding errors,” as all the figures are in millions.
My exhusband ran a military budget and there were “black programs” in his budget that he was not allowed to even talk about, much less discuss the finances of. One notable one was a study of the flow rate of ketchup. Military secret.