between men and women is secret code for “men good, women bad”?
just isn’t so, and 2000 years of language/culture/social change have given never-intended meanings to innumerable phrases. The above misreading of the blessing is one such. Note that if derogatory intent were meant, nothing would have prevented it from being expressed. And no one would have changed “idiot”. Basically, these blessings can be viewed as thanking G-d for obligating the observance of so many mitzvot.
