Goodwill Toward Men

And suddenly there appeared with the angel a great multitude of the heavenly host, praising God and saying:
“Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to men on whom His favor rests!”
When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another,
“Let us go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has made known to us.”

When the Bible was written, and until the rise of Marxist Feminism in the 20th Century, the term “men” as used in these verses meant “all humankind” but with the intentional, unmistakable overtone that the  male sex was absolutely dominant over the female sex, individually and collectively. That straightforward summary of God’s natural order for family and society was never viewed as something negative for or toward women, but was rather God’s chosen system for women to flourish – under the provision and protection of Men mandated by Him to cherish them as His greatest gift and most fundamental responsibility.