[gowld]

I'm not sure I agree, madam.

There is a gulf between "misogynistic" and "being part of a culture that largely ignores women". It strains credulity to claim that the words "son" and "man" don't draw males closer and push females away. Any one poem is a "micro", but it adds up across the culture.

[mfoy_]

I'll play the historical context card here. At the time the poem was written, that language perfectly evoked the image the author was going for.