*nods* The city-state was a mixed blessing; art, beauty, and safety, but at the price of becoming a servant of the city-state. On the whole most people choose to accept the authority of the state needed for cities to exist, rather than moving to the wilderness to rebel against it. That is, though, what many of the Gnostics did: they moved to compounds out in wilderness and railed against the evils of civilization.

But you bring up a second important point, that a lot of the time revolutionary thinking tends all to often to have a misogynistic flavor about it. It's a fairly prominent point of obvious contention among the Gnostics, as well. Some of their writings appear to have been by women; but most of the surviving writings were virulently misogynistic. I need to do some thinking about this.