Thanks for your response.
I’m actually not sure your point.
I can say, as for this:
“I lived my first years with that mindset. It came from a ball busting, man-hating mother and an absent father. After 18 years of hearing about how men were to blame for all the evils of the world...”
I did not have a man-hating ball-busting mother. Nor an absent father. And I never heard how men were to blame for all the evils of the world.
Henry Beecher, “magnificent pagan” (as described by Thoreau), preacher of romantic adultery and member of the Anthony Gang...
Beecher-Tilton Scandal
http://www.fingerpostproductions.com/nook_farm/pages/beecher-tilton-page1.html
“The Greatest Social Drama of Modern Times:” The Beecher-Tilton Scandal
http://faculty.uml.edu/sgallagher/BeecherTilton.htm