How could that be seen as demeaning and not complimentary?
Yeah, why is that demeaning?
After my years of worldview studies, I immediately spotted this complaint as inspired (corrupted) by the secular humanist (ie, satanic) worldview.
1 Peter 3:7
Husbands, likewise, dwell with them with understanding, giving honor to the wife, as to the weaker vessel, and as being heirs together of the grace of life, that your prayers may not be hindered.
Yeah, must have been written by an “angry white man”.