In 1852 the New York Herald ran an article on the women’s conventions in which it asked, “Who are these women?” Its (Imagine this in a newspaper today!)

Some of them are old maids, whose personal charms were never very attractive, and who have been sadly slighted by the masculine gender in general; some of them are women who have been badly mated…and they are therefore down upon the whole opposite sex; some, having so much of the virago (a strong, large, man-like women) in their disposition, that nature appears to have made a mistake in their gender- mannish women, like hens that crow…there is (also) a class of wild enthusiasts and visionaries—very sincere but very mad…Of the male sex who attends these conventions for the purpose of taking part in them, the majority are hen-pecked husbands, and all of them ought to wear petticoats.

Evaluate this argument.