Well there's that, plus wasn't it in the 60's Awakes that women's brains are smaller than men's thus they are less intelligent, or something like that?
I guess you're right. I'm probably allowing the way the quote affected me personally to impact my judgement of it's significance. If I'd been confronted with the blatant misogyny of the older literature as a loyal JW, I would've just dismissed it as having been influenced by popular views of the time. For others, though, it would've probably had a much larger effect.
I do wonder why they bothered to include the older WTs. Some of those have some pretty damning stuff in them too.