I know I blew right by those sentences in their original form, and was quite alert to them in your comment.

I wonder if the decades of girls being encouraged to go to college and get their "MRS Degree" still plays into how readers reacted to the original text.

Or if a lifetime of education with a feminism critique viewpoint encourages sensitivity to statements colored with male chauvinism but not with female chauvinism.

Thanks for that.