The setting of the book is that the source of magic has a male side and a female side, kind of like yin and yang. The setting's devil corrupted the male side, meaning that any man who uses magic enough eventually goes insane, so all male magic users are hunted down and killed without exception.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
I've seen this trope quite a few times (three times as exactly that, magic with a male and female side and the male side was corrupted by some evil deity figure), and it would be refreshing if just once the corrupted "evil" side was the "female" side instead. They even did it with the Force in the Clone Wars tv show, with the light side being represented by the Sister character and the dark by the Brother.
The male side might be corrupted physically (magically?), but that doesn't mean that the female magicians aren't also horribly corrupt.
Jordan isn't exactly subtle either. The Aes Sedai literally live in an ivory tower in the middle of vagina island