"Honky Tonk Angels" is a response to "Wild Side of Life", just to clarify (recorded by Hank Thompson, but I forget who wrote it).

I always assumed "Michael" was a specific Michael, a Saint or an angel or something (forgive me, I know zip about the Bible), and that the song might be a specific reference or analogy to something he did in the Bible, but I don't know what I'm talking about. Anyway, I never thought it was sexist.

Southern women definitely get their digs in when they have to. Hazel Dickens' "Tomorrow's Already Gone", "Come All You Fair and Tender Ladies", and the like.

Frankly, the most sexist songs seem to be comparatively recent C&W or bluegrass stuff, like "Wild Side of Life", to me.