"Man Needs a Maid" is in fact not a sexist song but like much of Neil's work, misunderstood and slightly obscure. It might be better to refrain from critiuqueing it till you are more familiar with this artist.
Neil was in severe back pain as I understand it, during the writing of this album. (I think this was around the time he met Carey Snodgrass) He spent a good deal of time in bed and although I could be wrong about this, this might explain both why he does not use an electric guitar much(back pain) and why I suspect the use of something like a drum machine in the writing (this is only speculation). The album is exelently heald together by a consistant and simple heavy drum section.
Young is also an epileptic (as am I ) there are lyrics in "man Needs a Maid like -"my life is changin in so many ways- dont know who to trust anymore" that mirror my felings about the alienation and fear epilepsy's changes can bring on. It is shortsighted to think this song is about manipulating women. One of its best versions (off Rock and Roll Cowboy) ends "a man feels afraid"
Niel young doesnt always want you to know what he's writing about and he sertianly does not give a damn if you happen to know ( or misinturpret for that matter). There is however a common thread of humanity losely defined and aplicable to all our lives in almost all of his songs.
If you get to short sighted about interpreting a song like "Man needs a Maid" you lose out on something.
For those that boil things down to whether or not statements fall into a feminist or anti feminist catigory I feel sorry for you I can only think that real artists could care less and are more conserned with writing the truth of how they feel - sometimes a man does feel this way