I'm sorry I responded so crankily - there's been a lot of hostile reaction from people to the very concept of this discussion taking place, which is what I thought you were saying, and - not that this is an excuse - your comment landed when I was in a rather grumpy and hostile mood myself.

And yeah, that's basically the problem. It gets worse, in terms of being able to think that Wrede wasn't being horrible herself, if you look over comments she made during the planning stages. It's really, really hard to make a case that she doesn't actually hold some very unpleasant attitudes, herself.