In the so-called Age of Reason, women were looked down upon. Human reason was elevated to a god-like status. Men were regarded as rational creatures, and women as emotional creatures. Therefore, in that age, men were viewed as superior to women just as cold logic was viewed as superior to warm feelings. Today people seem to prefer feelings to impersonal logic, and it is not uncommon today for people to view women as superior to men.
Men are such aggressive, violent creatures.
Women are, in contrast, loving, nurturing, caring. Men, the sex that has held the reins of society for so long, have made such a muddle of things. Now is the time for women, the truly superior sex, to have their turn at the helm. Women should today be wearing the pants in the family, occupying the formerly smoke filled board rooms, and filling the pulpits of the land, leading in the worship not of the patriarchal Father and Son but of Sophia or the Heavenly Mother. Or so the argument goes.