This is personal for me because it is the most profound thing I've ever read. For someone to come and refer to it as sexist is demeaning.
Savor it and quit being so wound up is all I'm saying. There's a place for everything and this was ill-placed.
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.
As with all though, you either evolve or you're doomed to irrelevance. This should be a familiar concept to any programmer in the past 20 years :P
Exactly this. It can be tough but you pick up your load and move valiantly forward.