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Your post reminds me of Camile Paglia's statement that the great unwritten history of feminism is the history of moral men who predated modern feminism (generally thought to have begun in the early Nineteenth century). Because the history of feminism has been largely the history of female commentary and utterances, Paglia believes the history of the men who developed the moral, social, and technological groundwork for female 'liberation' to take place have been unjustly ignored.

Paglia also noted that the narrow-minded focus on "female voices" had the effect of giving feminist intellectuals a lamentably insular perspective on world history and culture. Simply put, if you only read women, you're disproportionately likely to be reading only modern authors/intellectuals because before the the 1800s so few women wrote. Paglia believe this to account for much of the skewed and ideological view of the world of most modern feminists.

This just goes to show a point so often (and so correctly) noted by Freepers: Those who claim to have the most 'open minds' are frequently those with the narrowest and most prejudicial views.