Women cannot complain about men anymore until they start getting better taste in them.

The line is a characteristically provocative Maher quip that frames heterosexual dating as a matter of consumer choice: if women repeatedly end up with disappointing men, the joke implies they share responsibility for “selecting” them. Rhetorically it flips a common complaint about male behavior into a critique of women’s preferences, using humor to assign agency and blame in the same breath. Read critically, it relies on broad generalization and a reductive model of relationships (as if “taste” alone determines outcomes), which is why it can function either as a sardonic call for higher standards or as a dismissive, gendered put‑down depending on audience and context.