Yes, it is hard to accept.
People are very creative when it comes to "things to call a woman". You listed LSL2 and said SQ3 beat it? Try LSL3: "babe | bimbo | bitch | broad | chick | dike | dyke | female | fox | girl | lady | slut | woman". That's just for women in general! This doesn't even include any professions or the fat lady on the cruise.
It doesn't exactly surprise me that LSL2's synonyms for "man" are mostly professions: "barber | bore | boy | bum | captain | crewman | d | drunk | dude | guy | hairy | ken | maitre | man | passenger | reams | sailor | surfer | wino | worker". Doesn't mean Sierra are misogynists -- it means they're prepared for their players to be. And when a previous game turns out to not have enough support for misogynistic players' word choices... look one paragraph up.
As if I needed another reason besides "guess the verb" to prefer icon bars.
All that does mean that when checking your inputs, LSL2 will seemingly call every woman a bimbo, LSL3 will call them all babes, KQ4 fishwives, PQ2 broads etc. Seemingly, because what's actually stored in the script resources are, again, numerical codes. If you write "look/lady" in your script code and compile it, any inspection of the script resource will yield "look/bitch".