The referent was not the statement, but you yourself. As with your "cringe"; though you did not intend that, yet it is so.
Your mother - the female - made a mistake birthing you. And we all suffer under her error. You should rejoice: you were right about at least one woman.
Your mama was a woman.
She made a mistake.
Cringe.
Indeed.
So why say it if you know it's pathetic?
The referent was not the statement, but you yourself. As with your "cringe"; though you did not intend that, yet it is so.
Your mother - the female - made a mistake birthing you. And we all suffer under her error. You should rejoice: you were right about at least one woman.