`:A minority perspective is not automatically a ``fringe theory`` (after all, aren't we discussing one of the consequences of being in the minority?). Lanes's credentials are reason enough to include her theories here. A lazy Google also shows that while online ``reliable source`` references to a misogynic theme in WD are not prolific, common readers aplenty have not only taken notice of one and taken the effort to post it online. Admittedly not all necessarily WP:RSs for citing, but an interesting occurrence for a fringe theory:  :*Online book review at Epinions :*A teacher's website supporting a WD lesson plan: ``‘Liberated’ women campaigned against what they saw as inequality wherever they saw it, and they saw it in Watership Down. Adams copped a lot of flak from militant feminists who saw Watership Down as giving poor female role models to children. In Tales Adams decided to put that right, and quite out of the rabbit’s character, he made Hyzenthlay sort of equal to Hazel, while simultaneously getting rid of the male in her life, showing her as a lone rabbit with kittens and a career.`` :*A textbook publisher-provided study guide with the essay prompt, ``comment on whether or not you believe Adams is making a statement about the role of female humans by the way he presents the female rabbits in the story.`` :*Enotes essay: ``In the following essay, Thomas explores the limited, stereotypical portrayal of the female characters in Watership Down.``  :*BookRags essay available for purchase covering anti-feminist theme  :That's in just two minutes of looking and vetting hundreds of hits. More later. Thanks for making me look for more sources: there were a couple possible reliable sources there. |    `