Is it not clear what “f” and “u” is short for?
This reads like aliens trying (and failing) to figure out why women act more like women than men do.
Everything else is speculation unless their is some evidence that women’s complaints were the driving factor of a change in policy rather than, say, the infantilization of women or a sexist expectation that women would take exception to it.
I think it was the opposite; they were infantilzed and sensitive, considered liable to faint or have a bout of hysteria. They were to be protected. Swearing might upset a woman.
Men had final authority over them in many cases. For example, often women couldn't get jobs without their husband's permission.
Women were sometimes the source of a sensitive, compassionate, nurting viewpoint, a balance to the man's roughness. She might appeal to him, but it was his decision.